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I've never had a LinkedIn, but I regularly receive emails from recruiters that start, "Hey, I found your profile on LinkedIn and...". These get a form response
by kerkeslager 6y ago
I've never had a LinkedIn, but I regularly receive emails from recruiters that start, "Hey, I found your profile on LinkedIn and...". These get a form response from me which says basically, "No you didn't, and given the first words you say to me are a lie, I have no interest in working with you. And if you feel guilty enough about how you actually got my email that you feel the need to lie about it, maybe you should consider whether you want to be the kind of person who gets people's emails via unethical means and then lies about it."
Some of these recruiters apparently work for Amazon, which isn't unsurprising given their track record on other ethical concerns.
- laurentdc 6y agoProbably an automated tool. Sometimes I even get the "Hey |REAL_NAME|," ones.. Worst thing, these recruiter emails rarely have an unsubscribe link or some sort of opt-out. I don't have a LinkedIn but I once accidentally set my email public on GitHub for a month or so, now every once in a while I get those kind of emails. I'm sure it's been scraped and added to some database/spreadsheet somewhere.
- kerkeslager 6y agoTrue. I'm not sure whether that makes it worse or better.