Friday, December 03, 2010

Bullshit Spam

One of the great things about being signed up to various job-hunting sites is that you get sent all sorts of rubbish e-mail summaries telling you about jobs that you neither want, are qualified to do or in any way fit with what you’ve said you’re looking for. The other advantage is, of course, that you get a whole host of genuine spam. Like this example:
Hi Dear JobSeeker.
Only for the residents of the UK.
CSB Trust. Our company is engaged in payments automation. Our headquarters is situated in the USA but we have our individuals all over the world. We offer worldwide cash flow solutions for our pratners and their businesses. For the permanent access of our clients and for advancing of their facilities our company is looking for employees. We need diligent employees in each corner of the world.
For them we are offering great working conditions.
You want to be independent? You want to have a stable and high-paid work? Join us right now!
Job Location: UK Job type: Part-time Requirements: - Competent management of payments; - Ability to print and scan documents; - Available to work 2-3 hours per day; - Responsibility; - PC, Internet, E-mail advanced skills; Salary: GBP 20000 - GBP 40000 per annum. We pay cash daily!
If you are interested, please give your CV: info.csb.trust@gmx.co.uk
Please post, if you are eligible to live and work in the UK only and your documents aren't out of date.
Best regards
Something tells me that this isn’t a genuine job opportunity. The English is not so much broken as utterly fragmented – even for a company based in the USA. The concept of earning up to 40,000 a year for a couple of hours of work a day also doesn’t hang together. And I do like the fact that they have “pratners” as clients.

Then there’s the nonsense written in white at the bottom of their e-mail”
anthony and lucretia mott mrs davis yes and lucretia mottfully into effect it is impossible to believe that anythingtheir own affairs and his exampleus to suggest such a word as inconsistency fraternallyof god on cross and who is for hers no man worthy to tasteexcellency the governor general he sat right there whatpocket he set out for rochefort where dealers in substitutesof that it certainly required great force to make the deephis men you have heard that cadet and they walked to the carriage and allwas considering how to go downstairs thiscareer as a nation that such contempt was a later
No idea what that is meant to say or even represent. It sounds like a god-botherer on speed. Still, even that isn’t the biggest sign that this e-mail is just a pile of pointless shit. No, that would be the title:
Part-tisme jjob
Who, in all honesty, would not want a Part-tisme jjob?

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7 Comments:

At 8:50 am , Anonymous Korenwolf said...

The latter section is designed to get the message through the heuristic spam filters by adding randomness on top of the standard part of the text. Spamscum have been using it for years.

 
At 9:13 am , Blogger The Nameless Libertarian said...

Ah, that makes sense. Seems a shame (if shame is the right word) that spamscum put effort into making their e-mails get through spam filters but make no effort to disguise the fact that the content is still gibbering shit.

 
At 10:15 am , Blogger Longrider said...

They are looking for money mules. I'm getting lots of them. Some are rather sophisticated and do look like genuine jobs at first parse.

 
At 10:56 am , Anonymous Michael Fowke said...

If a Part-tisme jjob pays that well, I'm up for it. This could be a genuine offer. You shouldn't be so cynical.

 
At 5:49 pm , Anonymous remi online said...

i hate it when it happens, i mean i get around 20 spam emails with this kind of problem, i am getting tired and sick about this problem!!

 
At 8:42 pm , Blogger The Nameless Libertarian said...

Longrider,

I had one claiming to be from Trip Advisor that looked very genuine. The only giveaway was the e-mail address (something like tripadvisors@gmail.com). I can see that sort of thing working - but the dross currently filling up my inbox couldn't fool an untrained monkey with learning difficulties.

TNL

 
At 9:15 pm , Blogger Longrider said...

Yeah, I'm getting those too - it's the downside of putting your CV onto jobsites. Amateurish though they are, there are still people whoo fall for it. I mean, there are still people who get taken in by 419 scams.

 

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