I just became aware of a business that is taking advantage of the free services offered by MailChimp Mandrill, Sendmail, MailGun, MailJet, SparkPost, Sendgrid, and others to get their customers around filters, essentially creating a snowshoe scenario using the APIs of these ESPs.
(See screenshot for the ESPs they are featuring on their site - and I'm sure they are using others such as CC - and pretty much any ESP that offers an API and a free account.) Here is some of their sales pitch: "It’s a little-known fact that some specialist email service providers allow you to send emails using a free allocation each month Free emails from these email service providers range from 3k per month to a massive 150k per month! We have created 6 pre-configured API connections to 6 email service providers that provide a free monthly allowance Connecting just 2 accounts can provide you with 250k emails per month That’s a massive 8000 emails per day for FREE! And this is where the magic happens... We have created complex algorithms in the app that allows you to use these email credits for FREE You simply set the number of emails the app sends per hour and per month If you connect multiple providers the app is configured to send the maximum allowance to each provider per hour Because you can set the monthly cap, YOU NEVER EXCEED THE MONTHLY ALLOWANCE! And remember... These services are the best performing email services providers in the world So, providing you comply with the sending rules and don’t send spam You have an extremely valuable resource for free providing outstanding email delivery that would cost hundreds of dollars per month using other email service providers Need to send more than 8,000 emails per day? If you have a bigger list and need to send more than 8000 emails per day... You can connect to 12 of the world’s leading email services providers using pre-configure APIs and templates The app has built in parallel sending capacity so you can send up to 100,000 emails per hour should you wish to! This is how the pro email marketers set up, do you think any of the major brands use monthly services like aweber and get response? No, they use dedicated email service providers whose sole aim is to deliver emails Using our app to connect to multiple providers you can ensure you get the best possible delivery with NO DOWNTIME AND SEND UNLIMTED EMAILS FOR AS LITTLE AS $9 FOR 100,000 EMAILS! And remember, you can store unlimited subscribers for free and connect up to 12 email service providers below which will save you hundreds of dollars per year" (To those of you representing the businesses in the screenshot, they are using your trademarks without permission.) Here is the website: https://www.inboxingpro.com/sales-offer/ <https://www.inboxingpro.com/sales-offer/> Any thoughts on how to deal with this? Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Legislative Consultant CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public Policy Legal Counsel: The CyberGreen Institute Member, Cal. Bar Cyberspace Law Committee Member, Colorado Cyber Committee Member, Elevations Credit Union Member Council Member, Board of Directors, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop Ret. Professor of Law, Lincoln Law School of San Jose Ret. Chair, Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop
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