A while back I put my CV on Jobsite because all the recruiters read it and there's plenty of good work to be found. In due course it got me a good gig. However, shortly after that I started getting recruitment spam from some company called Huxley Associates. For PHP jobs. As you can imagine, I didn't ask for it. Nor had I ever heard of them, let alone subscribed to any kind of mailings from them. Somewhere I found that to unsubscribe from their spam, you had to mail a certain address. Here's what I sent:
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:17:43 +0100
From: "Earle Martin"
To: audit.data(at)huxley.com
Subject: Data removal request
Please remove my name and email address (jobs(at)downlode.org) from your
system and do not email me again.
Here's what I just found in my inbox:
O'Keeffe, Claire PHP DEVELOPER LAMP SKILLS GBP30,000 16:57
O'Keeffe, Claire Situation Update 16:56
O'Keeffe, Claire PHP / LAMP DEVELOPER Needed asap GBP30,000 16:56
O'Keeffe, Claire LAMP DEVELOPER FARRINGDON URGENT 16:56
O'Keeffe, Claire LAMP Developer Needed asap GBP30,000 FARRINGDON 16:46
O'Keeffe, Claire LAMP Developer Needed Farringdon GBP30,000 16:46
O'Keeffe, Claire PHP LAMP Developer Needed ASAP GBP30,000 16:45
O'Keeffe, Claire PHP Developer with ASP Needed asap 16:45
[Pound signs replaced with "GBP" because I can't work out how to get this hateful piece of software to display HTML entities.]
Yes, that's eight pieces of spam in less than fifteen minutes. On a Sunday. Please boycott Huxley Associates. They are spammers.
It's not the first time
drhyde on 2007-09-17T17:19:04
This stupid cow has been spamming for ages, and admits it if you phone her. I grumbled about her in
January. In my case, she was trying to sell me people with irrelevant skills, and had obviously either guessed the address or used one that someone else had given her.
