Spammed by a recruiting company
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Spammed by a recruiting company
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?
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?
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I received it and opened their sorry site.
www.**********.com[/url] says registering as a pilot is free, but upon further inspection of their site, they say only the registration is free, and their other services come at a price.
I plan to stay away....
[This message has been edited by DownIn3Green (edited 17 June 2001).]
www.**********.com[/url] says registering as a pilot is free, but upon further inspection of their site, they say only the registration is free, and their other services come at a price.
I plan to stay away....
[This message has been edited by DownIn3Green (edited 17 June 2001).]
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Yep. Even my profile didn't put them off 
The irritating thing is that it is my work e-mail address, which I've so far kept spam-free. You can bet the b@$tards will sell it on now. Oh well, I guess it's my fault for posting it in public
[This message has been edited by Evo7 (edited 17 June 2001).]
The irritating thing is that it is my work e-mail address, which I've so far kept spam-free. You can bet the b@$tards will sell it on now. Oh well, I guess it's my fault for posting it in public
[This message has been edited by Evo7 (edited 17 June 2001).]
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My email reply to the b@stards:
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Sir or madam,
I do not appreciate receiving spam email, nor do I appreciate be asked to assist in furthering your spam.
It is obvious from which site you trawled my, my friends and my associates email address. We do not appreciate this blatant misappropriation of our contact details, nor your misuse of the website concerned. There are clear guidelines that proscribe this sort of action.
As a result I will now direct my efforts to ensure that my aviation contacts avoid your site. I have posted a copy of your email on the site from which you trawled our email addresses, so that others can recognise this underhand business practice in which you engage.
Sincerely
T
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Let's hope others see their tactic for what it is: an underhand, misuse of PPRuNe, and choose to avoid their site.
Their site is inadequate anyway, but damned if I'm going to give them hints here on how to fix it!
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Sir or madam,
I do not appreciate receiving spam email, nor do I appreciate be asked to assist in furthering your spam.
It is obvious from which site you trawled my, my friends and my associates email address. We do not appreciate this blatant misappropriation of our contact details, nor your misuse of the website concerned. There are clear guidelines that proscribe this sort of action.
As a result I will now direct my efforts to ensure that my aviation contacts avoid your site. I have posted a copy of your email on the site from which you trawled our email addresses, so that others can recognise this underhand business practice in which you engage.
Sincerely
T
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Let's hope others see their tactic for what it is: an underhand, misuse of PPRuNe, and choose to avoid their site.
Their site is inadequate anyway, but damned if I'm going to give them hints here on how to fix it!
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I got it too. The difference is that I was in need of a job at the time. I registered there and was on my way to an interview within 24 hours. A day later I had a job. A darn good one at that.
You call it SPAMMED; I call it SAVED!
Stop bitching and get on with it!
You call it SPAMMED; I call it SAVED!
Stop bitching and get on with it!
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Rusty,
That's great if you got a job. Did it cost you any extra? If you don't mind, could you let us know if you'll be working for the agency in question directly, or did they just get you a contract with the company. In other words, how legit does it seem to you as far as the contract goes?
I'm not asking this to be nosey, or smart-ar$ed, just to put perhaps a more even slant on this post.
That's great if you got a job. Did it cost you any extra? If you don't mind, could you let us know if you'll be working for the agency in question directly, or did they just get you a contract with the company. In other words, how legit does it seem to you as far as the contract goes?
I'm not asking this to be nosey, or smart-ar$ed, just to put perhaps a more even slant on this post.
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I got the same thing too.
If the service is good, then fair enough, but that's not really the point. They could at least have had the courtesy to approach Danny with some cash and pay to have some honest advertising put on the site, rather than abusing Pprune and using it to harvest people's contact details in their quiet slumber.
Pie
If the service is good, then fair enough, but that's not really the point. They could at least have had the courtesy to approach Danny with some cash and pay to have some honest advertising put on the site, rather than abusing Pprune and using it to harvest people's contact details in their quiet slumber.
Pie
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Me as well . . .
And the only valuable "aviation" skills I possess are a strong belief in getting myself to the airport in good time for my flight, and then behaving like a good little pax.
As I suspected, they trawled PPRuNe for all visible addresses.
And the only valuable "aviation" skills I possess are a strong belief in getting myself to the airport in good time for my flight, and then behaving like a good little pax.
As I suspected, they trawled PPRuNe for all visible addresses.
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Mine was forwarded by the people who provide my pprune address, and only people who access pprune use.
Bur why get het up? I deleted it immediately, just as I do with the other 15 to 20 spams I get a day. And if you need a job, why not give it a go.
Bur why get het up? I deleted it immediately, just as I do with the other 15 to 20 spams I get a day. And if you need a job, why not give it a go.
