Recruiters lying about salary? Is this just me or is it getting out of control?

I recently had a recruiter message me for a salary up to one million dollars. How impractical is this?

Nigerian princes stepping up their game huh?

This is a classic bait and switch strategy that recruiters use. They have contracts for 3-4 "sexy" 1M+ positions open, so they dangle them in front of you to entice you into a conversation. Once they have you on the phone, they ask you for a resume they can send around to all of their entry-level positions.

IMO these recruiters are a big waste of time.

TBH probably better if their lies are getting unbelievable. Makes it easier to separate the wheat from the chaff!

Honestly I have never found recruiters useful, and I've had some incredibly rude responses from them when I have politely declined, or when I have simply ignored them as spam. It's amazing to watch as a series of emails just gets progressively more aggressive and argumentative, as though they believe that they are entitled to my time.

If you send an unsolicited recruitment email you haven't earned a response.

Of course they always hide who's they're recruiting for (except for one time with a FB recruiter who got passive aggressive with my not responding - this is after I'd responded to multiple prior recruiters that I would literally never work there - where honestly I feel I should have tried to find a contact at FB to forward it to.

[edit: I also realize the "up to X" is bullshit, and should reply asking what the minimum is]