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spammers offering jobs now

Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
edited November 2014 in Chit chat
With a subject of "Job in your location" and a message starting "International company is looking for a new employee of Administrative Assistant team across the United Kingdom." [sic], followed by several paragraphs of fiction and ending with "please reply back with your contact details and CV. Our anybody without first obtaining their permission." [sic] this pathetically obvious spam arrived this morning.

I haven't opened the email, I just dumped it to text to look at it, so I don't know what the "International company" is supposed to be, as it's not mentioned in the message text. The sender is supposed to be "Schwarz Julietta" at "schwarzjfyulycioketta@outlook.com". You may notice that removing the characters of the sender's name from the email name leaves "FYYC OK", which isn't very nice, is it?
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  • MarkoMarko
    edited November 2014
    Is that really the first time you've seen anything like that? I've been getting those for years!
    FB
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited November 2014
    Most spam sent to my accounts must be intercepted by BT or someone else up the line, as I rarely see any. I had a small flurry in September, and this is the only one since then. I only get a handful a year, and this is the first one that I've ever seen with a bogus job offer, even thinking back to the early days - say 15-20 years ago - when I got loads of spam.
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited November 2014
    You should check out the government's official job page "Universal Jobmatch"...that's pretty much all that's on there! :D
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  • smogitsmogit
    edited November 2014
    Actually its likely to be a real job offer for a bunch of criminals.

    One common variant is basically a mule operation, they get some unsuspecting punter to transfer ?x to your bank account, you transfer on ?x-10% (you retain your fee) to the criminals or another mule in the chain. Original punter realises they have been scammed complains, bank either rolls back the transfer or you get a knock on the door from the Police. At best you end up out of pocket for doing the dirty work.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited November 2014
    Marko wrote: »
    Is that really the first time you've seen anything like that? I've been getting those for years!

    no Marko, those aren't spam, they're from the jobcentre :P
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  • ASH-IIASH-II
    edited November 2014
    Those e-mails for pills that make your willy bigger for ?48 don't bloody work either....errr....so I've been told.
  • ccowleyccowley
    edited November 2014
    ASH-II wrote: »
    Those e-mails for pills that make your willy bigger for ?48 don't bloody work either....errr....so I've been told.
    They worked fine for me! :)
    BigWilly.png
  • leespoonsleespoons
    edited November 2014
    ccowley wrote: »
    They worked fine for me! :)
    BigWilly.png

    And now it won't fit in the top landing :lol:
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  • ASH-IIASH-II
    edited November 2014
    ccowley wrote: »
    They worked fine for me! :)

    Wow your willy is massive.....
  • MarkoMarko
    edited November 2014
    mel the bell wrote: »
    no Marko, those aren't spam, they're from the jobcentre :P

    You know, for some reason, the jobcentre has never ever called me or written to me about any jobs I might be interested in. I am the only person I know that this has happened to, and not one of the jobs I've had was gained with any assistance or even involvement of the jobcentre.

    I have however been subject to spurious sanctioning by the jobcentre in the past on trumped up evidence, so if they ever DO start contacting me, they can go take a **** to themselves. Since I'm working at the moment, it's not likely they'll be contacting me anyway.
    FB
  • JimmoJimmo
    edited November 2014
    deadpan666 wrote: »
    You should check out the government's official job page "Universal Jobmatch"...that's pretty much all that's on there! :D
    Like the pranksters who placed 'ads' there supposedly from 'MI6' for a Target Elimination Specialist, experienced in using sniper rifles, jet packs and mini-subs.

    Or the best one imo 'a courier' for Cosa Nostra Holdings International!! :grin:
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