> 2) Cold emails which obviously were sent to thousands with a canned message or a pitch completely foreign to your competence. Just out of curiosity, especial

> 2) Cold emails which obviously were sent to thousands with a canned message or a pitch completely foreign to your competence. Just out of curiosity, especially in UK there seem to be companies that scrape CVs from job web sites, feed all the addresses into databases, and send these indiscriminate emails if a few keywords match. And if one responds, they ask for a telephone call and might call dozens of times. At some point, I was actually wondering whether it would be possible to automatically get phone numbers of that kind of people into said CV data bases (with an obviously useless auto-generated CV that however has matching keywords).