Unsanity.org: Silly Email Harvesters

April 18, 2003

Silly Email Harvesters

Nice, just got this at our corporate mailbox:

Dear Sir/Madam



APPLICATION FOR A JOB POSITION

I hereby wish to apply for a job position in your company. I am a

self-motivated and diligent person and worker, committed to achieving

high standards of competence and professionalism in my work.

I have graduated with a Diploma in Textile Design and Technology at the (removed). I have a strong interest in designing, gained through my exposure to elective coursework in designing textiles, knowledge of understanding colour and fabric formation.

I assume we get the email because we happen to have a product called Silk. Sure, this sounds a bit about fabric, and I guess that's why we got the email in the first place. Still, silly, either the guy used a bulk mailing on a pre-determined keyword-based email list harvested by spam bots, or just sent it to everybody.

No, man, we don't do textile design. Yet. Wait a few months until we turn into a mega corporation handling everything from knit socks to entertainment robots. Or maybe not.

Posted by slava at April 18, 2003 08:16 AM

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Comments

Maybe you can make some Soxies to go with your Haxies.

Posted by: Rob W on April 18, 2003 9:19 AM

You should hire him immediatly!

Posted by: Etan on April 18, 2003 9:35 AM

When I was CIO of a small tech company I received this e-mail as well and that was over a year ago. Guess he still hasn't gotten a job.

Posted by: Warner on April 18, 2003 12:37 PM

I'm a recruiter. I have a position up for a content manager that specifically states over ten years of programming experience in particular languages.

Who applies?

So far I've had several cahiers from McDonalds, a couple of janitors and a library research guy.

Idiots.

Posted by: MSE on April 7, 2008 8:31 AM

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