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Well name and shame. Else you're just screaming into the void.
by groffee 4y ago
Well name and shame.
Else you're just screaming into the void.
- ColinWright 4y agoSent by hackernews.newsletter@mailscarp.com
- ctrlmeta 4y agoWhat do they gain by this? Do they have any affiliate links? Adverts? Just trying to understand what their motivation behind this is.
- nlh 4y agoWAG: I think in general people think building any kind of email distribution list can be monetized, even if it's not being done immediately. Either sold off wholesale or directly monetized through adverts / affiliate links.
- aaahq 4y agoIf they are particularly unscrupulous, there is an unsubscribe link: they capture use of this link to validate emails, then aggregate and sell that information onto other spammers.
- numpad0 4y agoSounds like a university freshman’s lemonade business gone wrong
- blitzar 4y agoThey are updating their CV right now - "Posts about my business were featured on the front page of HN"
- kushan2020 4y agoIf I was the person behind this, I would be tearing. You guys are brutal
- blitzar 4y agoLive by the hustle, die by the hustle
- imalerba 4y ago> Tired of getting spam emails from newsletters you never even signed up for? Mailscarp has you covered! Ironic
- orlp 4y agoIt's literally racketeering.
- xeromal 4y agoCharging protection money
- jbverschoor 4y agoMaybe their masterplan is to sell beds :)
- cassianoleal 4y agoI received the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605574 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605574
- frittata 4y agobased on that website, it sounds like this whole thing is a marketing campaign for that mailscarp service. They don't actually want you to read their newsletter, they want you to go investigate and then sign up for their 'block spam' service.
- notahacker 4y agoGetting their URL put onto spam blocklists sounds like an unusually counterproductive way for a 'block spam' service to market...
- jeroenhd 4y agoNot only are they a terrible service that lies about their data scraping, their service also doesn't even work. I entered one of my random email addresses that can definitely receive email into their tryout screen and it got almost every detail wrong except for the "format" fields. Onto the pihole blocklist it goes!
- martin_a 4y agoAnyone here with some influence over spam lists? Looks like a good entry...
- striking 4y agoIt appears the mailer service they use (as deduced from the email headers) has a Report Spam form here. https://elasticemail.com/report-spam https://elasticemail.com/report-spam