CyberCoders spam and response

Billy Cravens
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

Like many developers, I get a ton of unsolicited recruiter emails. Most are based on really old versions of my resume for skills I haven’t touched in years. However, if I get an email regarding very current skills (like Docker), it’s pretty obvious I’m being stalked.

Today I received such an email from CyberCoders, a recruiting agency that has been plaguing my inbox for years. I usually just delete and go on, but I was at an “enough is enough” point, and sent this response (and this was the nice version after I edited out most of the snarkiness):

I am not on the job market. I haven’t put out an updated resume in years. While I have experience in the technologies listed here, the only way I’d be connected is if your recruiters are actively scouring the Internet for skills and then making unsolicited communications.

I have been received these communications from your company for years, and every attempt to Unsubscribe both through automated means as legally required by CANSPAM, as well as direct communication with recruiters, has failed. I will click the Unsubscribe link again after sending this email. My presumption is that CyberCoders’s qualification for hiring technology resources is reflected by how well they can manage their database of email addresses.

Some entertaining reading material:

https://edoceo.com/blog/2016/06/cybercoders-shameful-recruit-solicitation

http://recruitingdaily.com/recruiting-spam/

https://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/cybercoders-california-c345160.html

Billy Cravens

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Big nerd that writes code (mostly in Ruby), Dockerizes all the things, and fiddles knobs in the cloud for a living.

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