Reply to: Fishing agents - phone calls and emails without a footer

[v8gaz]

I got one of those on Thursday night around 5pm. Great sounding gig, great money. I asked him to send the JD, and to check what email address he had for me. All of a sudden he's flustered, can't find my email address, but will definitely send me the JD. Surprise surprise, no JD arrived.

[MrMarkyMark]

Or low rates...

Ah...........but those roles are not for you?

They will be used as evidence for a "skills shortage" and then someone based offshore will be parachuted in to save the day.

[pauldee]

I get no end of 'companies' wanting to design or SEO my website who use Hotmail etc addresses.

[SueEllen]

I did try to email late on Friday afternoon, the email was not delivered, the gmail address had been shutdown or deleted!

No agent uses a gmail address they may use gmail, yahoo etc servers but as they are trying to convince large companies they are a legit business who are able to provide them resources they won't use a gmail, yahoo etc email address.

[MPwannadecentincome]

I did try to email late on Friday afternoon, the email was not delivered, the gmail address had been shutdown or deleted!

[kaiser78]

Anything that offers unusually high rates is usually BS, at least that's my experience in the past...

Or low rates...

[MrMarkyMark]

Anything that offers unusually high rates is usually BS, at least that's my experience in the past...

[SueEllen]

A good blast from the past is give them the name Mr. C. Lyon and the number for Chester Zoo...

Mr G. Raffe...
Mr. L.E. Fant...
Miss Ali Gator...

Better to give them proper fake names as some of them actually fall for it....

[stek]

Comptometers!! I think....

[stek]

"No, it's SIR Philip Green, yes he asked for me personally when he heard about my pension expertise I'd done for a Mr Madoff...yes we used Agile."

qh

A good blast from the past is give them the name Mr. C. Lyon and the number for Chester Zoo...

Mr G. Raffe...
Mr. L.E. Fant...
Miss Ali Gator...

The 80's office, what fun we had with no computers on our desks, two phones, internal and external, can I have an outside line please.

What were those calculating machines called? loads of button and and a lever on the side?

And we had to use our Dictaphone, though I preferred to use my finger. I showed my son a phone with a dial, he thought you pressed the holes. And he thought a fax machine sent the paper down the wire. How does that work then?

[quackhandle]

I'd dig out the name of a chairman of a company and give them that. They'll be too thick to know any better and you can imagine the phone call as they try to contact the Head Honcho.

"No, it's SIR Philip Green, yes he asked for me personally when he heard about my pension expertise I'd done for a Mr Madoff...yes we used Agile."

qh

[cojak]

I'd dig out the name of a chairman of a company and give them that. They'll be too thick to know any better and you can imagine the phone call as they try to contact the Head Honcho.

[SlipTheJab]

Sainsbury's only interview people who are in demand? Who do they think they are Apple or Google, let's face it they're not even Waitrose!

[SueEllen]

I don't answer private numbers.

If the call is real they will leave a message or email you.

Though even then some of the fishers do this. However I soon put the phone down on them during the call.

[pauldee]

Wow, that sounds seriously amateurish.