I once turned down a gig from someone who wanted a tool to spam fake Yelp reviews. He had an elaborate vision for it: a control panel he could use to choose a t

I once turned down a gig from someone who wanted a tool to spam fake Yelp reviews. He had an elaborate vision for it: a control panel he could use to choose a target and whether to make the reviews good or bad, which controlled a fleet of instances on EC2, Rackspace, etc, so that when one was detected he could just use others. It's easier to turn down unethical work when it's only a few thousand dollars, vs your full-time job. Still, I felt pressure because I was actually talking with him on behalf of a guy I was subcontracting for, and who had invited me to partner in his own agency, so I did worry about injuring that relationship. It did make me wonder though, if those were the leads he was turning up, whether a partnership was such a good idea. . . .