Web 2.1 » crime http://web.2point1.com Tim Whitlock's home in the Blogohedron Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:37:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Job board spam http://web.2point1.com/2008/07/03/job-board-spam/ http://web.2point1.com/2008/07/03/job-board-spam/#comments Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:20:58 +0000 tim http://web.2point1.com/2008/07/03/job-board-spam/ I do marvel at the ingenuity of spammers sometimes. Despite being crap programmers, they do have a knack for coming up with new ways to deliver their poisonous junk. It’s almost enough to make me consider life of crime.

After placing a job advert on Gumtree, we (my current employer and I) received a touching email from someone intersted in our junior developer role. Clicking their portfolio link took us to a spammer’s “search” portal complete with gambling site pop-ups.

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