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- The worst idea of 2018 (so far) is this email spam as a service company
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Monday, 5 February 2018

A product billed as the answer to email spam wants to turn the tables on aggressive marketers. Currently featured on Product Hunt, ‘Revenge Spam’ allows anyone to input an email address in an onsite form. Once entered, the company submits the address to “several” other companies that “take of [its] dirty work” — a claim that alludes to unwanted sign-ups for multiple mailing lists. As of this writing, it claims to have “sought revenge on” 69,264 people. While seemingly intended to target email spammers, the service offers no assurance that this is the case. It could just as easily be…
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