Probably 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

Probably 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.