This reminds me of the infamous Nigerian emails. They are so obvious for a reason - avoiding false positives - [1]. Cannot fit this same scheme in a Senior position recruitment at Google though.
> This reminds me of the infamous Nigerian emails. They are so obvious for a reason - avoiding false positives
Unrelated to the main topic but I wonder if email providers could effectively fight those scammers by having chatbots automatically reply to their emails. That would make a bunch of false positive to sort through and possibly make the whole thing uneconomical for the scammers.
[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-nigerian-scam-emails-are-o...