I actually found the job ad on ESLemployment. Thinking that the job offers there are real, I sent my application. The e-mail address replied to me claiming that it is American School of Madrid. (I almost got scammed by Execs International School about two weeks ago. Luckily, I wasn't that stupid to send them money.) So for this next school, I had a look at their website to verify if it's real. Maybe I was just too careless and didn't notice that there's a scam alert in the school's website and there's a difference in the e-mail addresses used by the real school and the fake one.

The application process took about a week. I received my contract letter today (It's not like the contracts I used to receive from other international employers). I noticed that there were spelling errors. Again, I made some searches online...American School of Madrid is authentic. The e-mail is asking me to get in touch with INFO@THESCHENGENOFFICES.COM.

I chanced upon a website with an entry from someone saying this:

ALL THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FROM US HAVE BEEN FORWARDED TO HE FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT VISA ISSUANCE DEPT (INFO@THESCHENGENOFFICES.COM) YOU ARE ADVISED TO CONTACT THEM WITH A SIGN COPY OF YOUR CONTRACT.

And the person noted that he got in touch with the said e-mail address and was asked to send the fee. Then, I became more doubtful. I don't know if The Schengen Office Visa Service is the same as the one above. Anyway, I sent a message to that address. I wonder what the reply will be. I also made a domain search and below is the result.

Address lookup
canonical name theschengenoffices.com.
aliases
addresses 69.49.101.52
Domain Whois record

Queried whois.internic.net with "dom theschengenoffices.com"...

Domain Name: THESCHENGENOFFICES.COM

Registrar: TUCOWS INC.

Whois Server: whois.tucows.com

Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net

Name Server: NS1.DOMAINDIRECTHOSTING.COM

Name Server: NS2.DOMAINDIRECTHOSTING.COM

Name Server: NS3.DOMAINDIRECTHOSTING.COM

Status: clientTransferProhibited

Status: clientUpdateProhibited

Updated Date: 20-oct-2009

Creation Date: 20-oct-2009

Expiration Date: 20-oct-2010

>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:37:37 UTC <<<

Queried whois.tucows.com with "theschengenoffices.com"...

Registrant:
THE SCHENGEN OFFICES
46 Nassau Ave
NY, NY 11542
US

Domain name: THESCHENGENOFFICES.COM

Administrative Contact:

OFFICES, THE SCHENGEN theschengenoffices@gmail.com

46 Nassau Ave

NY, NY 11542

US

+1.5168014468
Technical Contact:

Administrator, DNS dns@internetnamesforbusiness.com

5915 Airport Road

Suite 1100

Mississauga, ON L4V 1T1

CA

+1.8008530954 Fax: +1.8009799587

Registration Service Provider:

Internetnamesforbusiness.com, dns@internetnamesforbusiness.com

1-800-853-0954

1-800-979-9587 (fax)

http://www.internetnamesforbusiness.com

Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 20-Oct-2009.
Record expires on 20-Oct-2010.
Record created on 20-Oct-2009.

I checked the school's website again and finally I noticed the scam alert! Jeez! Anway, unlike with Execs...I didn't have to answer interview questions. At least, not much effort is wasted.

Join our team!
FIND AS ATTACHED A COPY OF YOUR CONTRACT LETTER AND THE SCHOOL WORKING DETAILS.
ALL THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FROM US HAVE BEEN FORWARDED TO HE FOREIGN EMPLOYMENT VISA ISSUANCE DEPT (INFO@THESCHENGENOFFICES.COM) YOU ARE ADVISED TO CONTACT THEM WITH A SIGN COPY OF YOUR CONTRACT.

Thank you for your interest in applying for a position at the American School of Madrid.

Correspondence address:

AMERICAN SCHOOL OF MADRID

Attn: Development Office (Recruiting)
Apartado 80
28080 Madrid, Spain

Diploma coordinator
Mr Michael Vetrano

Email: JOBS@ASMADRlD.ORG AND INFO@ASMADRlD.ORG, Tell: (34) 36 286 77 346