Has anyone else been spammed by pilot recruiting company?
The b@stards say the collected my email from a website & that thought I might be a pilo/aviation employed (I am of course, but they don't know that), then have the hide to say in their email that they would like me to forward their #$%^ spam to everyone I know who's a pilot but to make sure don't spam them!
Conveniently 'forgetting' that their email was spam in the first place.
PPRuNe is about the only place I know that my visible email address is associated with aviation so I stronly suspect that they trawled this site for the information.
Below is what I received, only I've modified any identifiers to the
pr!cks so that they don't benefit from their spam.
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FLIGHT DECK CREW!
Five minutes today... for a whole future tomorrow?
This e-mail is being sent to you because you may possess valuable qualifications that are in demand by various airlines and other recruiters around the world. We found your e-mail address on the web, and we believe you may be qualified flight deck crew or have at least some connection with flying. Please forgive us if this mail is not appropriate, and please also consider forwarding this e-mail to your friends in aviation.
If you are flight deck crew, you may add your professional qualifications FREE to an exciting new alerting service that constantly matches airline and other recruiting organisations' requirements with flight deck crew skills. This is not an advertisement for a contract agency, nor indeed for a standard recruitment agency, but an invitation to sign up to an ongoing exchange of information between airlines, other recruiters and flight deck crew. You do not even need to be actively looking for a change of position, though you should be prepared to consider the exciting new opportunities which may of course be presented to you!
If you have absolutely no intention of changing your job, please forgive the intrusion. Otherwise, please visit...
www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com
..and try the amazing new flight crew search engine. Then add your professional details by clicking on the 'Add New Crew Details' link. A full listing of your professional details is FREE, and can be set up in less than five minutes.
Five minutes today... for a whole future tomorrow?
IMPORTANT: Whether or not you leave your details with
xxxxxxxxxxx, please also forward this e-mail to all the flight-related contacts in your address book (though please avoid spamming anyone). The power of the
xxxxxxxxxxx service to you, and to them, will be greatly enhanced if there are many flight deck crew registered with our service, as therefore many recruiters will be encouraged to search there. If you need a clean copy of our promotional e-mail please visit
www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/mailfriends.htm
If you would like a copy of our poster/leaflet to mount in appropriate places where flight deck crew will see it, please visit
www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/leaflet.htm
Thank you for your attention, and happy landings!
xxxxxxxxxxx
www.xxxxxxxxxxx.com
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Yeah, I'll mount it where my aviation contacts can see it all right! Right where they can all see this as SPAM!
I don't appreciate being spammed, nor do I appreciate being asked to contribute to the practice of spamming. Here's hoping their site is avoided as a result.
I'm not sure, but I wonder if these are the same sods that were trying it on for free advertising via recent posts on PPRuNe?