I got an interesting email today...

[Tim-in-TX]

“Dear Tim,
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We have found your resume at Monster.com and would like to suggest you a
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"Internet-manager" vacancy. We have studied your resume and are happy to
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inform you that your skills completely meet our requirements for this position.
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This is a part-time position.Your task will be the following:
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- To register on various popular english-speaking web forums
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- To create new topics with the articles specified by our company
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- You will need to create topics on about 50 different web forums per day
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- To search for new web forums using Google, Yahoo!, MSN search engines
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- To send everyday reports by e-mail
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Your schedule will be flexible. You will need to spend on average 2-3 hours
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per day, Monday-Friday. All communication will be online.
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This job will allow you to:

- - Increase your income;
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- - Efficiently work at home;
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- - Get additional free time;
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General requirements:
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- - Internet and e-mail skills; Experience in online work;
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- - Good communications skills
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- - Prior customer service experience is a good benefit;
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- - Honesty, responsibility and promptness in operations;
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During the trial period you will be paid $3000 per month.
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If you are interested in this position, and would like to know more, please e-mail me
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We will contact you within 2 days”


My Reply:

“Go find some other loser to spread your SPAM! I would rather go jobless than contribute to the Web version of a Venereal Disease!”

No wonder there is so much spam out there, they are paying big buck to anyone willing to push their spam! I would like to get a hold of their forums list so I can go to those forums and give them this guys e-mail addy so they can send along their “thanks”.
The weird part is the random letters after each line. In my e-mail they are hard to see because they are in a really hard to see color, but I made them solid here so they could be seen. What is this, a new way to get around spam filters or something?

OH! And the reply e-mail addy is webpromote.info@gmail.com so whatever you do, don't start sending him a bunch of junk mail, that just would be wrong. Again his addy is webpromote.info@gmail.com.

[ngoduyviet]

Originally Posted by Tim-in-TX

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OH! And the reply e-mail addy is webpromote.info@gmail.com so whatever you do, don't start sending him a bunch of junk mail, that just would be wrong. Again his addy is webpromote.info@gmail.com.

LOL, are you sure the reply email is webpromote.info@gmail.com? I mean, you need to make sure it is the correct email so anything we email to webpromote.info@gmail.com won't go to someone else

[kenmyers70]

Lets see. You send mail to webpromote.info@gmail.com. They have your return address. They sell your return address to 10,000 other spammers. You get more spam. Hmmmm. I don't think I like that approach.

Better approach: Use http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html to report spam. No additional spam shows up in your box. Much better.

[jon_k]

I highly doubt they'll pay 3 grand a month for this.

Probably you'll do the trial for a month spamming like crazy then when payday comes... nothing.

[Steelsun]

It's a common scam - they use you to do their spamming (and get your IP banned) for as long as possible, then they vanish.

[Tim-in-TX]

Originally Posted by kenmyers70

Lets see. You send mail to webpromote.info@gmail.com. They have your return address. They sell your return address to 10,000 other spammers. You get more spam. Hmmmm. I don't think I like that approach.

Better approach: Use http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html to report spam. No additional spam shows up in your box. Much better.

I'm guessing that they already have my address since they email me first. Plus, they got my email from my Resume at Monster.com, so they have my whole resume...of course I have not updated it in over a year, and I've moved and changed phone #'s and everything, so I'm not too worried. I doubt I'll get any reply. They probably sent that same email to everyone with a Resume at Monster.

[Steelsun]

Monster was also one of the big sites hacked a few months ago where they (hackers) got tons of info from them.

[MikkiStreak]

It's a phishing tool - Every website search engine has a script running that searches web pages for email addresses (which is why many people will type their email as: mary123 at yahoo dot com). In fact, if you look at the list of who is in a thread on here, you'll see the phish searching... The lists are compiled and sold to marketing companies. Kind of reminds me of those ads in paper "Get $3000 per day mailing envelopes"....