quacksilver

A business, claiming to be backed by YC is sending me 5 to 10 unsolicited job applications per day from candidates who have been told that my company in Vietnam is hiring.

I have no plans to hire anyone, not least in the roles that they applied for, and feel sorry that the candidates have wasted their time. Sending a spam application would put them on my blacklist anyway.

I am hesitant to reply to the emails as I thought they were some sort of phishing scam at first and would just mark me as a positive responder, resulting in more phishing / spam. Though I signed up with a fake email and it seems that they are actually trying to build a job site business at www.featurii.com.

The site asks users to connect their Gmail account then appears to spam me as the user, meaning that I can't just block the domain. I am also concerned about supposed mistreatment of candidates damaging my business image.

How would you approach getting them to stop?