Wow, what an amusing waste of time. And yes, I do mean phishing.
I signed up for an account and thought I’d browse some of the available programming work. Guess what I found? Yes, someone who, after successfully phishing for logins to professional organizations, wanted someone to harvest the organization directories. Many of these sites had posted notices that expressly forbid entering contact information of other members into a database. Fun.
Another carefully worded project was looking for a key generator for Microsoft Office, and wanted someone to write a program to extract it from the CD. Or, he simply failed to realize that Microsoft doesn’t keep a valid list of keys on the CD itself. Nice.
Yet another project or two wanted dozens of articles either written or rewritten several times and then uploaded in plain text, no doubt with the intention of using them to Google bomb. Somewhat amusing, but, uhm, no.
But, here’s my gold winner for this evening. Someone’s seeking an experienced FreeBSD developer to work on a project where apparently the hiring party doesn’t even speak coherent English.
We would like to employee one of the top talent about FreeBSD. We are NOT looking for someone who knows how to make a setup or has been using *nix like systems for a while. We want a highly reliable, honest, and ideally contributor to FreeBSD open soruce developments.
And the going rate for this project? $50. What’s that, did you fall out of your chair? No, I’m serious.
Oh, here’s another one dealing with Microsoft Outlook and failed email transmission. This snippet from the description is priceless:
Bid low, work fast and we have a deal!
Oh, this one’s good. A spammer wants a multithreaded DNS query tool with multiple proxy support to extract non email related information. Yeah, I believe that. A bulk query tool that isn’t going to be used for email extraction. Sure. Next.
Oh, this is great.
I need a web browser based on open source Mozilla Firefox 1.0 for Linux (Fedora 3). You can use existing open source code to start developing a new one, which will be called “[Some Fewl's Browser]“. It should have all of the futures of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 plus any future you can add.
Heh.
Save the best for last. Apparently New Horizons is pimpin’ it on Monster. Check this nonsense out:
There is a Job Boom in Information Technology that is going to make it feel like 1999 all over again!
30 million workers will be older than 55 in the next 10 years
5.3 million technical workers will be needed by 2010
8 out of the 10 fastest growing occupations are in I.T.New Horizons Computer Learning Centers is the computer training leader in the North Central Florida area and is willing to work with local community members who are interested in getting into the IT industry.
Please, no. No more people that just want some cash.