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Ask HN: Can Spamming Help?

2 pointsby udayrddyover 5 years ago
I was recently approached by a data selling company with Data Guarantee Terms:<p><pre><code> 85%+ Email Deliverability Hard bounces of more than 15% will be replaced with new contacts. Not a single duplicate contact. Each contact will come with permission based GDPR and CAN SPAM act, Contacts will be for your unlimited usage. </code></pre> A couple of months back, I launched extracttable.com with a post on Hacker News, a week later on Reddit and answered under 10 questions on Quora. My usual nonpaying user traffic comes from Quora and &quot;direct&quot; (as what shown on Google Analytics), the paid clients were from Quora and HN. Looking into the client base, as expected, 80% of them are combined from Data Engineers&#x2F;Analysts&#x2F;Scientists and Python developers. So, I was tempted and responded to them to check the last 3 years PyCon conference users filtered by targetted Job titles. While the price they quoted was ranging between 5-10 cents for the 60K user list, I&#x27;m just wondering to see if anyone were successful in this approach.

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jermaustin1over 5 years ago
Can spamming help? Sure, but most mass-email platforms explicitly prohibit sending unsolicited emails. On top of that, if you were to get even a handful of spam complaints, your account will be immediately shut down.
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bediger4000over 5 years ago
&gt; Each contact will come with permission based GDPR and CAN SPAM act<p>This line, especially the &quot;CAN SPAM act&quot; part, seems suspicious in the extreme.
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