Scammers seem to use Hacker News heavily. Presumably the moderators keep the scam messages off Hacker News itself, but the moderators can't stop scammers from emailing people.
Posting on the "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?" threads returns a ton of scams, particularly fake recruitment scams. Lightly obfuscating my email address like user at domain dot com didn't help much. Since changing my email address on there to a link to an image, I haven't got any scam messages or spam (yet).
Scammers seem to use Hacker News heavily. Presumably the moderators keep the scam messages off Hacker News itself, but the moderators can't stop scammers from emailing people.
Posting on the "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?" threads returns a ton of scams, particularly fake recruitment scams. Lightly obfuscating my email address like user at domain dot com didn't help much. Since changing my email address on there to a link to an image, I haven't got any scam messages or spam (yet).