{"id":106,"date":"2007-11-09T02:42:29","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T06:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/09\/more-semi-amusing-referrer-spam\/"},"modified":"2007-11-09T02:58:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T06:58:35","slug":"more-semi-amusing-referrer-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/09\/more-semi-amusing-referrer-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"More semi-amusing referrer spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, I have my awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/resume.html\">computer engineering javascript and CSS resume<\/a> posted on this site. And actually, I&#8217;ve gotten quite a few responses from random companies and people all across the US&#8230; which has been really encouraging for me, especially since I haven&#8217;t applied anywhere!  But onto the amusing referrer spam.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/obsessive.sourceforge.net\">OWS<\/a>, I&#8217;ve noticed a lot of random referrer spam to my resume. And, its pretty consistent: each instance points to a (valid) resume for some totally random person. This is one instance:<\/p>\n<table class=\"decorate\">\n<tr class=\"highlighted\">\n<th>hostname<\/th>\n<th>Date<\/th>\n<th>Time<\/th>\n<th>Referrer URL<\/th>\n<th>User-Agent<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>65.91.101.XXX<\/td>\n<td>2007-11-02<\/td>\n<td>10:37:26<\/td>\n<td>http:\/\/lalaland.msu.edu\/ ~vanhoose\/resume\/resume.html<\/td>\n<td>Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; SCF &#8211; Mean &amp; Nasty; T312461)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>65.91.101.XXX<\/td>\n<td>2007-11-02<\/td>\n<td>10:37:25<\/td>\n<td>http:\/\/lalaland.msu.edu\/ ~vanhoose\/resume\/resume.html<\/td>\n<td>Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; SCF &#8211; Mean &amp; Nasty; T312461)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>65.91.101.XXX<\/td>\n<td>2007-11-02<\/td>\n<td>10:37:22<\/td>\n<td>http:\/\/www.dalehollowmarketing.com\/ Htm%20pages\/resume.htm<\/td>\n<td>Mozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Theres been around 10 or 20 of these types of referrer spam URL&#8217;s I&#8217;ve seen over the last few months. The weird part is that all of the different URL&#8217;s are always people of varying experience, and totally different career fields (teachers, businessmen, researchers), and even international students and such. And, theres been a few different IP addresses its originating from.. but who knows with how much adware\/botware is out there.<\/p>\n<p>What I can&#8217;t imagine is the purpose.. I mean, is someone paying for someone to spam their resume around? Totally untargeted referrer spam like that can&#8217;t possibly be effective &#8212; I mean look, they caught my attention, but is an HR person really going to look at website logs? Doubtful. And if they did, I&#8217;m pretty sure they would NOT hire that person for being so spammy. Maybe the spammers are just picking resumes at random&#8230;. but that doesn&#8217;t even make sense either! Heh..<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I really need to refocus my resume in the very near future (like.. this weekend) to a more engineering type of job, since right now it makes it looks like I want a web developer\/related job. Which don&#8217;t get me wrong, I think I might enjoy a job doing web related stuff, but I think I&#8217;m really looking for somewhere I can innovate and contribute as a computer engineer, or something close. I&#8217;ll have to write about this soon.. since, the one thing keeping me looking for a job right now is that I&#8217;m waiting to see whether I&#8217;m accepted into the graduate school I wanted to get into or not. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, I have my awesome computer engineering javascript and CSS resume posted on this site. And actually, I&#8217;ve gotten quite a few responses from random companies and people all across the US&#8230; which has been really encouraging for me, especially since I haven&#8217;t applied anywhere! But onto the amusing referrer spam. 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