Email : Job offer or SPAM; use google as a spam filter

by Tom 12. July 2007 04:34

Today I recieved a strange mail in my inbox :

Dear Job Seeker,

Our International Corporation has a variety of high-paid positions available at the moment.
We are proud to offer you an interesting, respectable position in a field of Financial Services.
If you are a honest, responsible and hard-working person we would be glad to do business with you.
Our company is a respectable international organization.
We believe that the success of our company depends on maintaining high standards of business conduct,
integrity, safety, quality and respect for people and the environment in everything we do.
We are working honestly. We will never ask you to pay or invest something.
You work - we pay for the result.
We will never ask you to provide us with your private information such as credit card number or your bank requisites.

There are no geographical limits for our candidates.
People from all over the world are welcomed.
No degree is required in order to join us.
We value educated people very much but we believe that there are a lot of perspective persons without any degree.
We have position for everyone.
Most of people who is working as our local representative for 2-3 years has embodied all their financial dreams in a reality.
They know that working with us is a right way to acheive the financial success.

It's impossible to tell everything in this short introduction message.
If you are interested just contact us and we will forward you the complete information about available jobs.
It is absolutely free.

Thank you,
we are waiting for your prompt response to xxx@gmail.com
Please include "Application number 311500" in a subject line.

P.S.
If you believe that our message has come to you by mistake just reply with "unsubscribe" to xxx @ yahoo.com.
and you'll never hear from us again. We apologize for any inconveniences.

Luckily, google is my friend : when I searched for the first sentence of mail in google discussions, I found out it was actually spam. I must say it's the first time I wasn't able to tell if it was spam or not, until I got halfway the mail :

...
Most of people who is working as our local representative for 2-3 years has embodied all their financial dreams in a reality.
...

I've had a lot of whitewashing/viagra/s*xx offers, but this is the first time I got a job offer by spam :)

While doing this I noticed the first matched were all in news.admin.net-abuse.sightings . I think that using google one might be able to build a very basic spam filter.

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Typing source code from a book evolved into exploring the limits of coding in procedural, assembly and object-oriented languages.
As he matured in software coding, he started focussing on the problems surrounding software development, and learned that software development is usually about people and interactions first, and about technology second.

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