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From: Kevin McMurtrie on 21 Jul 2010 21:32
In article <3PK1o.9729$z%6.1298(a)edtnps83>,
Arved Sandstrom <dcest61(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> markspace wrote:
> > Phillip wrote:
> >
> >> We are one of the Big 4 firms and leading providers of technology
> >> services worldwide with more than 190,000 full time employee's in 120
> >> countries.
> >
> > "Big Four:"
> >
> > "The Big Four are the four largest international accountancy and
> > professional services firms, which handle the vast majority of audits
> > for publicly traded companies as well as many private companies,
> > creating an oligopoly in auditing large companies."
> >
> > PricewaterhouseCoopers
> > Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
> > Ernst & Young
> > KPMG
> >
> > You're one of those companies? Or possibly some other company, that
> > can't provide its HR department with an email address and has to use
> > gmail instead.
>
> Also note the demand to describe one's *current* base salary. I'm
> thinking that this is a disguised survey.
>
> AHS

It looks like a common phishing scam. The job application can be used
for identity theft and highly targeted scams. Scammers will even stage
a fake business in a rented or broken-into office to perform interviews,
show off a product, congratulate you on your hiring, and then collect
"training fees."
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From: Arne Vajhøj on 21 Jul 2010 22:26
On 21-07-2010 18:48, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> markspace wrote:
>> Phillip wrote:
>>
>>> We are one of the Big 4 firms and leading providers of technology
>>> services worldwide with more than 190,000 full time employee's in 120
>>> countries.
>>
>> "Big Four:"
>>
>> "The Big Four are the four largest international accountancy and
>> professional services firms, which handle the vast majority of audits
>> for publicly traded companies as well as many private companies,
>> creating an oligopoly in auditing large companies."
>>
>> PricewaterhouseCoopers
>> Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
>> Ernst & Young
>> KPMG
>>
>> You're one of those companies? Or possibly some other company, that
>> can't provide its HR department with an email address and has to use
>> gmail instead.
>
> Also note the demand to describe one's *current* base salary. I'm
> thinking that this is a disguised survey.

It could be.

But a survey of people responding to usenet spam will be
heavily biased towards low salaries compared to the population
in general.

Arne
From: Arved Sandstrom on 22 Jul 2010 05:26
Arne Vajh�j wrote:
> On 21-07-2010 18:48, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>> markspace wrote:
>>> Phillip wrote:
>>>
>>>> We are one of the Big 4 firms and leading providers of technology
>>>> services worldwide with more than 190,000 full time employee's in 120
>>>> countries.
>>>
>>> "Big Four:"
>>>
>>> "The Big Four are the four largest international accountancy and
>>> professional services firms, which handle the vast majority of audits
>>> for publicly traded companies as well as many private companies,
>>> creating an oligopoly in auditing large companies."
>>>
>>> PricewaterhouseCoopers
>>> Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
>>> Ernst & Young
>>> KPMG
>>>
>>> You're one of those companies? Or possibly some other company, that
>>> can't provide its HR department with an email address and has to use
>>> gmail instead.
>>
>> Also note the demand to describe one's *current* base salary. I'm
>> thinking that this is a disguised survey.
>
> It could be.
>
> But a survey of people responding to usenet spam will be
> heavily biased towards low salaries compared to the population
> in general.
>
> Arne

Possible. I'd be more inclined to believe that a survey of people
responding to this would be biased towards stupidity. After thirty-odd
years in the workforce I see no strong correlation between salary and
intelligence. :-)

AHS

--
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she
served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never
been found.
-- Calvin Trillin
From: Tom Anderson on 22 Jul 2010 07:48
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

> On 21-07-2010 12:32, markspace wrote:
>> Phillip wrote:
>>
>>> We are one of the Big 4 firms and leading providers of technology
>>> services worldwide with more than 190,000 full time employee's in 120
>>> countries.
>>
>> "Big Four:"
>>
>> "The Big Four are the four largest international accountancy and
>> professional services firms, which handle the vast majority of audits
>> for publicly traded companies as well as many private companies,
>> creating an oligopoly in auditing large companies."
>>
>> PricewaterhouseCoopers
>> Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
>> Ernst & Young
>> KPMG
>>
>> You're one of those companies? Or possibly some other company, that
>> can't provide its HR department with an email address and has to use
>> gmail instead.
>
> :-)
>
> And some may argue that "J2EE" send a signal about being out of touch.
>
> Oh - and according to Wikipedia none of those companies has >190000
> employees.

This might be the 'big four' of a different context. For example, a quick
google reveals that the term can also be used to refer to the bands
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. I don't know how many employees
those bands have, nor whether they also provide technology services
worldwide. The latter seems unlikely, i admit.

tom

--
Both English and Italian can trace their emergence as popular tongues
partly to pornography. -- Peter Johnson
From: markspace on 22 Jul 2010 12:16
Tom Anderson wrote:

> This might be the 'big four' of a different context.


Yes, actually that was my first thought. I'm guessing the context is
"in the poster's own mind" or possibly "only on their adverts."

The original post seems designed to mislead, which is why I jumped on
their phrasing.
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