YC has definitely backed some shady shit in the past, but I suspect these guys might just be straight-up fraudsters.
They claim to be backed by several major investors, but I can't find them in YC's startup directory [1] or Antler's portfolio page [2]. Their website also doesn't have any of the details you would typically expect from a legitimate business, such as an about us page, a description of their corporate history, or an office or mailing address.
1: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies 2: https://www.antler.co/portfolio
Create a stock response for candidates that are coming to you via their platform that explains they do not represent your company and that you will not review any applications that come via their platform. Include a link to your own careers page and encourage candidates to reapply there if they are genuinely interested in working for your company.
Have you tried contacting the company directly and asking them to remove your company details from their platform?
If this isn’t just an actual scam campaign, it Sounds like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen? Shame on these guys one way or another, the last thing people looking for work need is yet another layer of friction.
"1 minute to apply to 5,000+ premiere hiring companies."
The proliferation of these types of services is to make the job-application process essentially useless.
Took all of 5 seconds to look at the YC company list to see they are not in it.
Just some Vietnamese spam site, who knows the motives. Setup email filters and move on.
Send the company an email politely asking them to piss off?
If not, send all the candidates a message saying you do not hire through unsolicited recruitment. Or set an autoresponder saying the same to any unsolicited message about an open position.
I would think, that if they are actually YC-backed, then mentioning them to the YC folks could have some effect.
Even if they aren't actually YC-backed, I think YC should know.
Suspect they know now.
Good luck.
Short-Term, just set up Gmail filters to catch emails with common keywords (“featurii.com” seems a dead giveaway and manually report these emails as spam to train Gmail’s AI.
Long-term, you need to go scorched earth. Review-bomb them on x, googlereviews, fb, alternativeto, etc. If you do it enough times you will get a VP's attention, and they will come to the negotiating table.
Also, worth a shot to report the issue to Google to investigate Gmail account misuse. Maybe even contact Customer Service directly if they have one, an underling may just want to care. Heck , most effective, have a lawyer friend lend you a company letterhead and have GPT send a fax/email to their registered agent or legal@ , with a cease and desist demanding they stop. Friends & vendors will put your script on letterhead free of charge.