Is it wrong to misuse bad recruitment agents email addresses for other stuff?

[bobspud]

I have just got so sick and tired of the piss poor standard of recruitment agents that seem to have cropped up lately and as the number of daily emails grow for support desk roles and other totally random rubbish on the basis I might know someone, I have decided to get revenge. So I now sign the sender of worse job adverts of the day up for any SPAM fest crap tampon ad or whatever I can find.

I have been doing some market awareness stuff for my current client. My little hit list of agency minions have proven very useful for getting spam free access to white papers

What else do you guys do to relieve the days boredom?

[woohoo]

I have just got so sick and tired of the piss poor standard of recruitment agents that seem to have cropped up lately and as the number of daily emails grow for support desk roles and other totally random rubbish on the basis I might know someone, I have decided to get revenge. So I now sign the sender of worse job adverts of the day up for any SPAM fest crap tampon ad or whatever I can find.

I have been doing some market awareness stuff for my current client. My little hit list of agency minions have proven very useful for getting spam free access to white papers

What else do you guys do to relieve the days boredom?

You could signup to some weird porn site using the pimps email address but slightly miss-spell his name. So, the email won't go through to him but will be redirected through to a random bored admin person. They will then probably tell everyone what the agent signed up to

[NibblyPig]

On reading the humorous responses to my signature link, someone put [email protected] as a friend/coworker they could recommend for a gig, which made me chuckle

[SimonMac]

No point, as even the most numpty of agents will have spam filters which will block all that stuff out, sign them up to real but annoying newsletters like wowcher which for the love of money I still can't unsubscribe from

[SimonMac]

On reading the humorous responses to my signature link, someone put [email protected] as a friend/coworker they could recommend for a gig, which made me chuckle

Do not believe them, have you seen Admin's judgment in who he has made mods

[TheFaQQer]

Life's too short, why bother?

[NibblyPig]

The best thing would be to download a random CV unrelated to their field, and put their name, e-mail, and phone number in it, and amp it up a bit.

Upload it to monster, totaljobs, jobserve, etc.

Recruiter will now field hundreds of annoying calls and be spammed with e-mails from now until eternity, and as they will be very similar to other e-mails they might send/receive, their spam filter will be mostly useless.


Over the years I have added all recruiters to a filter, when I look for a new gig I usually e-mail every single one (200+ email addresses) informing them I'm on the market, because why not.

[SimonMac]

The best thing would be to download a random CV unrelated to their field, and put their name, e-mail, and phone number in it, and amp it up a bit.

Upload it to monster, totaljobs, jobserve, etc.

Recruiter will now field hundreds of annoying calls and be spammed with e-mails from now until eternity, and as they will be very similar to other e-mails they might send/receive, their spam filter will be mostly useless.


Over the years I have added all recruiters to a filter, when I look for a new gig I usually e-mail every single one (200+ email addresses) informing them I'm on the market, because why not.

When someone asks for a reference give them the name and number of the annoying pimp, gets two for the price of one

[bobspud]

No point, as even the most numpty of agents will have spam filters which will block all that stuff out, sign them up to real but annoying newsletters like wowcher which for the love of money I still can't unsubscribe from

It was trying to rid myself of that bastard site that gave me the idea