Spam mail

Yesterday, I received the following email:

International insurance company is hiring employees for long term cooperation.
Our main purpose is to build a strong team of distant representatives who are ready to work for 4-6 hours from home on weekdays.

Interested affiliates:
ISRAEL

Requirements:
Excellent English both reading and writing Excellent native language Strong computer skills Experience in database processing You must be hard working and responsible You must be intelligent (graduates are preferred) If you’re beginner be ready to pass trial period for 1 month.

Primary responsibilities:
Database processing and translation

We will look to hire you for a long term, at least for 6 month

Payment:
You’ll be paid according to results of interview and consideration of the application We have limited amount of vacancies so please submit your resume as you read this.
To submit your resume please use: Kirby@il-career.com

I would normally have been more than slightly interested in this offer had it not been for the minor fact that the grammar contained too many mistakes for such an email, and for the major fact that the email had apparently been sent from one of my work addresses.

Later on in the day, our system administrator sent a company wide email stating that our email server was under attack with letters similar to the above. During the course of the day, I received another two similar emails, each from a different address (but all mine) and each with a different contact address.

What I find interesting is how the mail managed to combine a few items which would appeal to me: translation, database management, a graduate. It would be interesting to see what other people received (apparently the same). Of course, the point is not the content of the mail but rather the evil intent of flooding our email server.