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It won't be appropriate to paint every Indian company with the same brush, but I knew one that was in a professional spamming business who slyly marketed thems
by shubhamjain 9y ago
It won't be appropriate to paint every Indian company with the same brush, but I knew one that was in a professional spamming business who slyly marketed themselves as an "email marketing company". The business model was to —
1) Lure employees of big companies (especially e-commerce ones) with cash and buy email dumps of their users. I don't think email security was something many companies were vigilant about. 2) Send email campaigns for their clients, which included other e-commerce companies, colleges, and travel agencies.
The business, as I remember, was quite profitable. I can't say if something like this is at work here but there's a healthy black market of buying email lists.
- flukus 9y ago> I can't say if something like this is at work here but there's a healthy black market of buying email lists. There's a healthy 100% legitimate (legally) market too. They correlate data from all sorts of retailers with things like your bank account, email address, etc. Pay cash for anything you'd be embarrassed about someone finding out.
- throwaway32414 9y agoSomeone who owned and operated a globally blacklisted spam company came to power in Delhi, ironically on an "anti-corruption" message. Ethics aren't part of contemporary social contracts in India. See "Somnath (Spamnath ?) Bharati".
- CarMaker 9y agoCome on, please don't single him out. Who will pay attention to the drama queen?
- rishabhd 9y agoI can relate to that. I know multiple firms in NCR who operate on a model like that. Mass email campaigns, promotions and spam - undertaken from offshore servers hosted on shady ISPs based on data like this. I can bet this data has been made available to them and it has been already put in use.