Questionable Email Blast Project

[green240]

I have a customer that wants to setup a mail blaster " mail campaign", he said he has an email database of "millions of emails". It sounds like he is a spammer. Should I care what the customer intends to do with the setup? He want me to setup a VPS running a software called Gammadyne. Any input is appreciated.

 

[MotzTech]

Would you be hosting said VPS or just setting it up?

 

[green240]

I would be just setting it up.

 

[MotzTech]

In that case I would say go for it. You have no way to know if this list of his is legit or not, and honestly it's not really your business anyways. In this case it's your job to set the system up. What he does with it after that is all on him. It would be a heck of a stretch for someone to come after you regrading this.

 

[nlinecomputers]

I'd ask for payment in cash....

 

[callthatgirl]

I'd take the job, you're not breaking the law and he might not be either, you don't know and we are not the spam police (yet haha).

 

[Markverhyden]

I'd ask for payment in cash....

in advance. Small unmarked bills....... LOL!!!

 

[atlanticjim]

Just be aware that if his ISP gets too many spam complaints they will shut him off.

 

[frederick]

I'd inform them of MailChimp (or any other mass-email services) personally. Assuming he cares about being blacklisted or not. MailChimp allows the recipient to opt out quite nicely, and doesn't flag the domain. That's my opinion. I have some clients who do newsletters to thousands of people, and it's been a real pain getting them off the black lists even after setting them up with MailChimp. But since setting them up with it, their list shrank a little of those who opted out, and less reports of scam.