Last week, a spammer entered JobShuk and sent out e-mails to many of the users, making vague overtures, followed by standard Scam claims, e.g. millions of dollars in wire transfers, etc. Most of you quickly realized that this was a scam, and have already done what should be done with such SPAM – deleted it. If you’ve made contact with this person, identified as Lillian Muhammed Atif, please break contact immediately.
I’d like to publicly apologize for this infiltration. I understand that giving out your contact information online is always a calculation of risk vs. reward, and I appreciate your taking the risk with JobShuk. It is our full intention to deliver those rewards to you, and prevent, as best we can, further irrelevant solicitations or scams.
As further clarification,
- The e-mail was not sent by JobShuk itself, but by an unscrupulous site visitor.
- The culprit did not compromise the security of our mailing list, and our site has not been Hacked. You will not receive subsequent SPAMs, and "Lillian" does not have your contact information unless you replied to the initial contact.
- JobShuk is not susceptible to bots (programs that spider the Internet looking for e-mail addresses). The attack was a human who registered on the site, and browsed from profile to profile, completing the online contact form.
- The e-mail format sent out is a valid e-mail as a result from someone filling-out the contact form on a profile page. If you receive an e-mail of the same format in the future, do not disregard it as SPAM – it’s most likely a genuine contact. E-mails from your contact form will contain a subject: "New message from your JobShuk contact form"
- The SPAM did not contain any viruses, as attachments are not allowed via the contact forms.
To prevent such behavior in the future, we are adding to our current security system some or all of the following precautions:
- A daily message limit for each user, so that mass quantities of mail cannot be sent out by any individual again.
- Blacklist checks, forbidding users on flagged computer terminals from using the site.
- SPAM filters, requiring every message sent out to pass a strict SPAM rating system. Flagged messages will be manually monitored, and valid messages will be passed on to the intended recipients.
I thank you for using JobShuk, and for understanding that such inconveniences happen. We, at JobShuk, look forward to being with you through your future continued successes.
Sincerely,
Zvi Landsman
Founder & CTO, JobShuk