Is the employment housing distribution scam illegal?

This is illegal. According to the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), any act of cheating or coercion for the purpose of illegal possession, which causes losses to other people's property, should be regarded as fraud and constitutes a criminal offence. In addition to employment and housing scams, there are many other types of employment scams, such as recruitment fraud, online recruitment fraud, pyramid schemes and so on. These scams often use high salary and good treatment as bait to lure job seekers into being cheated, which has caused great losses.