{"id":26,"date":"2011-09-14T09:32:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T16:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=26"},"modified":"2011-09-15T10:22:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:22:24","slug":"oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Oops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently applied to a job from an employer that used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.careerbuilder.com\">Careerbuilder<\/a>\u00a0to manage their job applications. As part of the application process, it requested my r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and demanded that I either enter my current Careerbuilder username and password or register for an account.<\/p>\n<p>So I did the former, without thinking of the possible consequences. And sure enough, Careerbuilder saved the copy of the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 I just uploaded, which of course didn&#8217;t have the explicit message telling insurance companies to go away at its start. Surprise, surprise: the <a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/old\/2010\/09.html#02073148\">spam from insurance companies<\/a> is baaaaaack.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/old\/2011\/06.html#05135426\">sleaze outfit Farmers Insurance<\/a> has been uninterruptedly spamming me several times per week for over a year and counting now. They&#8217;ve long since earned a spot in my spam filter, and I recommend that anyone who hates spam should avoid doing business with them like the plague.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=farmers+insurance+spam&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">Google \u201cfarmers insurance spam,\u201d<\/a> it is fairly easy to see that I am not alone, and that this firm&#8217;s sleaze extends far beyond being an unrepentant spammer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently applied to a job from an employer that used Careerbuilder\u00a0to manage their job applications. As part of the application process, it requested my r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and demanded that I either enter my current Careerbuilder username and password or register for an account. So I did the former, without thinking of the possible consequences. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}