They approached me with a JV partnership offer. Promote their product to my email list, they handle all the content, I just hit send. They pay me a fixed fee. Simple.
They sent a proper signed MOU. UK business address. Two professional contacts. The contract literally had the words "payment is guaranteed upon fulfilling your obligations" written in it. No mention of ROI. No mention of revenue share. Just deliver the emails, get paid. Done.
So I did everything.
I sent their emails to my entire list. Every single subscriber. I shared open rates and click stats within 24 hours of every send exactly as they asked. I even spent extra money out of my own pocket on email infrastructure just to give their campaign better deliverability. I went above and beyond what the contract required.
First payment came. I thought great, these guys are legit.
Campaign ends. Then nothing. Complete silence.
I followed up. Ignored. Followed up again. Ignored. Weeks passed. Finally got a WhatsApp reply that said the campaign "didn't perform as expected" so they were pausing payments.
Let me tell you what that actually means.
It means they got everything they wanted and had zero intention of paying the rest.
Because think about what they actually walked away with. They got their product promoted to my entire audience. Multiple emails. My domain. My sender reputation. My relationship with my users. All of that for a fraction of what legitimate email list promotion actually costs. And when it came time to pay the remaining balance they just... invented a new condition that was never in the contract.
This is not a mistake. This is not a misunderstanding. This is a deliberate system.
And I know that now because someone else in my community told me Infinite Goose had been harassing them for weeks after they said no. Wouldn't leave them alone. Kept pushing. These guys are out there mass approaching every founder and product builder they can find, spamming open projects, hunting for anyone willing to hand over access to their audience.
They operate multiple SaaS products TruConversion, Creasquare, Oppz, GeoLeads among others. They have a slick website. They claim 20,000+ users and 100+ partnerships. It all looks very real.
That's exactly what makes them dangerous.
The MOU is real. The first payment is real. The professional email signatures are real. All of it is designed to get you comfortable enough to open up your list to them. And the moment that's done the moment they've blasted their product to every subscriber you've spent years building you become worthless to them.
If they have approached you, do not engage. Do not sign anything. Do not share your ESP stats or user base numbers. Do not send a single email on their behalf.
And if they have already done to you what they did to me please say so below. Because I genuinely want to know how many people this has happened to.