Has anyone else had work emails spammed by Meta?

Question

Today I received a recruiting email from meta that was CC'd to every email I have used in the past decade, including a defunct company I worked for and my current work email (which luckily, was wrong at least). It appears Meta's recruiters are using data from their shadow profile on me to blast every possible email. Has anyone else had this experience? Is there some legal way for me to force them to remove me from their system?

easton · Accepted Answer

It's not a shadow profile, they're scraping your LinkedIn. I've gotten multiple emails to my work email from (non-Facebook) recruiters/sales people within the first week of adding my current employment to LinkedIn. They guess it's "first.last@companydomain", and most of the time that's right.It happened that one of the times they put an unsubscribe link at the bottom, but if they didn't I just sent them to junk. (The way to market new infrastructure tooling is not to cold-email people that've worked here for a month.)

tjpnz · Answer

This hasn't happened to me. But one of their recruiters was kind enough to subscribe me to their jobs newsletter. Given that it's Meta I wouldn't have expected anything less.

daneel_w · Answer

They've sent me a few to the e-mail address I registered my Facebook account with. They got my job title correct despite my account being "galvanically" isolated from exactly everything relating to my work, incl. not associating with colleagues. LinkedIn is likely the indirect source.

ageitgey · Answer

LinkedIn scraping for Recruiter/SaaS sales spam is annoying. But we've seen a similar but more critical issue with phishing attacks based on LinkedIn scraping.
When a new employee joins the company, they will start getting texts to their personal phone number "from the CEO" asking them to handle an emergency by accessing a link or sending a file or whatever. It seems to happen right after they update LinkedIn with their new job. We also get email-based versions, but those are usually easy to block.
It's frequent enough now that we warm each person about it specifically as part of our initial welcome email and tell them to expect it.

lucideer · Answer

Yup