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+ fake company name (presumably fake website?), no background info on Google (after all, it's fake), no background on founders... etc.

I would've sailed right past that posting too.

> There's no way in hell I would apply for a job that wanted me to pay to apply. Totally bogus.

Me neither. It screams SCAM at me. It'd be illegal in the UK, as well.

Yeah, IANAL but my guess this is pretty illegal in most states. If it wasn't you'd be seeing a lot more companies doing it.

If more companies did it, some unscrupulous users would abuse it by posting fake listings and not returning the money.