This should not be a surprise, but...
This should not be a surprise, but yes, if you hire affiliate spammers, Suomispam will list you just as if you sent the spam yourself.
Effortia Oy which runs www.asuntojenmyynti.fi has been reported to have been involved in spam at least since 2014. They have been listed by Suomispam as well for quite a while.
A long time ago they approached us telling us that they have had a look at how they operate and made changes and promised to have mended their ways. We fell for the explanations (we do like to give people a bit of slack at first if there is any plausible explanation) and we did delist them. Unfortunately they did not mend their ways and the flow of spam did not stop.
So we did relist them. We have since refused to delist them without them first giving up affiliate spam. Effortia has now indicated that because our listing is bad for business, they will be filing an official complaint with the police. Unfortunately for them, something being bad for business is not illegal. Otherwise we would start putting restaurant critics in jail for causing bad business to bad restaurants.
There are a few lessons to this story:
Do not hire affiliate spammers, they will destroy your service’s reputation. They will try to scam the end users any way they can and they are very good at hiding their own identity.
If you get listed, the only way to get delisted is to cease spam. Not threats, not bogus explanations, nothing. We always recommend stopping spam. It will actually help with listings.
If you invoke official complaints to police or courts, you do have to go all the way through. There is no point in having several concurrent processes, i.e. both a court process and our own private delist request process going on at the same time. Therefore we suspend our own delisting process until there is a valid court order. There has never been a court order against Suomispam.
See also: http://mainsleaze.spambouncer.org/tag/effortia-oy/











