It's a viable strategy to increase TC, however I would not follow it for three reasons: 1. The algorithm is suboptimal as you will be applying to one job at a

It's a viable strategy to increase TC, however I would not follow it for three reasons: 1. The algorithm is suboptimal as you will be applying to one job at a time and won't have any negotiation leverage. You might get what the recruiter promised but not as much if you applied even to one more firm with a similar TC. 2. This requires frequent job charges, which may be an impediment to further job prospects. Depends on your field though. 3. It amplifies recruiter spam, every response, even a rejection, raises your score in the spam databases, much so a non-rejection like this. I used to politely decline recruiter spam until I began to notice I keep getting spammed by the same firms/people. I then stopped responding and that reduced the spam significantly.