[vox] bogus staffing company?

[Eric Rasmussen]

The sad thing is some legitimate websites are so full of meaningless
buzzwords that they're hard to distinguish from bogus sites. But in
this case it looks like they've had that domain registered since 2007
and have multiple listings across multiple employment sites, so I'm
guessing they're an actual company, just engaging in questionable
email practices.

-Eric


On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Micah Cowan <micah at cowan.name> wrote:
> (11/02/2011 12:44 PM), Brian Lavender wrote:
>> I received what appears a bogus recruiting email from the following site.
>> http://www.itbrainiac.com
>>
>> If you look at the website, it has no phone contact, names and appears to
>> be.... bogus.
>
> No phone contact? What about at
> http://www.itbrainiac.com/contact_us.html (via the "Contact Us" tab)?
>
> It doesn't strike me as all that unusual for names to be absent from a
> website... is there anything in particular that makes you think this is
> a bogus company? I don't see anything that strikes me as particularly
> odd (cursory look). Except that they don't seem to be in whitepages.com
> (but the number from their website maps to a NY, NY landline, matching
> their contact address).
>
>> The email doesn't address me and just lists the position.
>
> Is that unusual for recruiters? I get that sort of unsolicited (but
> apparently career-relevant), generic job offer all the time. All the
> less surprising if you consider they probably blast the mail to a
> prepared list of potentially-interested email addresses (culled from
> resumes?)
>
> --
> Micah J. Cowan
> http://micah.cowan.name/
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