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Two days ago I received an email from a recruiter at http://sourced.tech/ http://sourced.tech/ mentioning they had analyzed my open source contributions and the

Two days ago I received an email from a recruiter at http://sourced.tech/ http://sourced.tech/ mentioning they had analyzed my open source contributions and they had a position that matched me. It looks like source{d} brags about scraping personal data from sites for recruitment purposes. The problem is the email they used is not publicly facing in my Github account, but it _is_ the login email that I use for Github. I never got the "Have I Been Pwned" email, but this is very concerning to me, I keep this email very private. Coincidence?

pkill17 10y ago
Are you sure none of the commits on any of your repos accidentally have the author email as the private one you login with?
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- throwwwwwwwwww 10y ago
  I was about to say the same thing. For example if you go to someones GitHub profile and they have a public e-mail listed but you then go their repositories, filter by "source" (repos created by them, not forks) and you go to the oldest one they have of that kind, git clone that and then git shortlog -s -e You might find that they were using their school e-mail back then for example. Also if you clone all their repositories and everything else they have contributed to you might find an occasional commit in which they accidentally used for example the e-mail they have at work.
  - dom0 10y ago
    You can just retrieve the Git patch directly from the commit page (add .patch to the URL), which has all the metadata of the commit, including author info.
toqueteos 10y ago
I worked at sourced.tech Back then we crawled all public github repos and took a look at all the commits so any email you've used for making commits with git and pushed to GitHub is public. The analysis is somewhat legit. The email is ofc automated but it was quite high quality. I left on March this year so things may have changed an awful lot. EDIT: By high quality I mean they give you all the possible details of the offer. Again, this might have changed. If you are unhappy with them feel free to rant on Twitter mentioning them and they'll get back to you very quickly.
dozzie 10y ago
Since you brought them up, I got an e-mail from them recently, too. It was a huge ROTFL for me. They boast on their FAQ page that they are "different from a recruiter", and the contact person wrote "We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and think that you could be a good fit for [web backend programmer]". The thing is, they sent me an e-mail to the address that is present in just one repository and has nothing to do with web at all. Then, when I asked what repositories have they looked at, what caught their eye, and why do they think I would like the position, the contact person sent me a lengthy e-mail about how their recruitment process looks like, not addressing my questions at all. All in all, they just sent me some e-mail templates filled after trivial keyword matching, which I find funny, because they claim they are so much better than "regular recruiters". Though, to be honest, they did give the offer details upfront, without me asking about that.

pkill17 10y ago

Are you sure none of the commits on any of your repos accidentally have the author email as the private one you login with?

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throwwwwwwwwww 10y ago
I was about to say the same thing. For example if you go to someones GitHub profile and they have a public e-mail listed but you then go their repositories, filter by "source" (repos created by them, not forks) and you go to the oldest one they have of that kind, git clone that and then git shortlog -s -e You might find that they were using their school e-mail back then for example. Also if you clone all their repositories and everything else they have contributed to you might find an occasional commit in which they accidentally used for example the e-mail they have at work.
- dom0 10y ago
  You can just retrieve the Git patch directly from the commit page (add .patch to the URL), which has all the metadata of the commit, including author info.

toqueteos 10y ago

I worked at sourced.tech Back then we crawled all public github repos and took a look at all the commits so any email you've used for making commits with git and pushed to GitHub is public. The analysis is somewhat legit. The email is ofc automated but it was quite high quality. I left on March this year so things may have changed an awful lot. EDIT: By high quality I mean they give you all the possible details of the offer. Again, this might have changed. If you are unhappy with them feel free to rant on Twitter mentioning them and they'll get back to you very quickly.

dozzie 10y ago

Since you brought them up, I got an e-mail from them recently, too. It was a huge ROTFL for me. They boast on their FAQ page that they are "different from a recruiter", and the contact person wrote "We have analyzed your open source contributions on Github and think that you could be a good fit for [web backend programmer]". The thing is, they sent me an e-mail to the address that is present in just one repository and has nothing to do with web at all. Then, when I asked what repositories have they looked at, what caught their eye, and why do they think I would like the position, the contact person sent me a lengthy e-mail about how their recruitment process looks like, not addressing my questions at all. All in all, they just sent me some e-mail templates filled after trivial keyword matching, which I find funny, because they claim they are so much better than "regular recruiters". Though, to be honest, they did give the offer details upfront, without me asking about that.