Spam or not?

[captpackrat]

I got an odd e-mail today. Normally I can smell spam or phish a mile away, but this is just strange.

We were excited to find your resume on the internet! You appear to have the skills and talents that would qualify you as an eXceptional candidate for Northrop Grumman –Mission Systems. If you would like to join one of the most Progressive and  Exciting divisions of Global Leader Northrop-Grumman Corp. Please send a word/ doc of your resume to the eXceptional Candidate Center/Mission Systems. xcc@ngc.com

I did some digging, and ngc.com has the exact same registration information as northropgrumman.com, and uses the same DNS servers. All the IP addresses are even in the correct assigned IP blocks.

Is this actually legit?

Comments

[sharan.livejournal.com]

Actually, you'd be surprised how many recruiters do this (at least for web developer jobs). Most of mine come from my Monster resume but I'm not sure where some of them find me. I do have a resume up on my website too. I just wish more of them actually READ my resume before contacting me.

A lot of them actually call too. Most of them are recruiters and not the actual companies, but if the job market gets really good the companies have people looking too. I got my last job before this one that way (although that was when the dot coms were still hiring like crazy). From the amount of calls I'm getting and talking to recruiters the job market has suddenly taken a huge upturn and the recruiters are having trouble finding people to fill the jobs.


If you are looking for work I'd say to check the Northrop Grumman website for their job listings and it probably wouldn't hurt to ignore the e-mail and try applying directly that way.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

The junk I receive has always been obvious. They have scanned the web looking for the word "resume" and an associated e-mail address and not much more. The message either was extremely vague about the nature of the job or makes it entirely clear that no one actually read the resume.

[sharan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, most of the ones I get are a lot more specific about what they're looking for, even the ones who prove they haven't read my resume. Like the idiots who contact me about Cold Fusion jobs when I've used Cold Fusion Studio as Homesite but never did any Cold Fusion programming. Or the ones who don't see that I have full time student looking for part time work all over my resume and contact me about full time permanent positions.

A lot of it depends on the type of job, too. Web developer jobs I know are legit. If they contact me about work at home jobs it's usually spam.