Google’s gmail.com has proven to be a useful tool for the India-based Data Champions / Sloan Marketing spam and scam group in sending out their B2B spam.
Google’s mail servers are generally never blacklisted, no matter how much spam they send, and spammers like the Data Champions can easily take advantage of this.
You might receive Data Champions spam from Gmail addresses such as
miriam.wallaceappend@gmail.commarkswright1@gmail.comben.mcampos@gmail.comnancy.brownq@gmail.com(perhaps related to thenancy.brown@aboutwebinars.comidentity that they’ve also used in the past?)chris.petty.us@gmail.competer.galison1@gmail.comlinda.daveq@gmail.com
Subject lines for these spams tend to be typical for Data Champions spam. For example:
- Software Users List 2011
- Email List- 2011
- Email Lists – Any Industry
- Email Marketing Lists
- Marketing Lists
- Affordable Email Lists
As usual, non-existent company names and rented mailboxes tend to be used, since there are no real offices. For example:
- Accurate Contacts, Inc., 1024 Iron Point Road, Folsom, California 95630, tel: 800 294 5407
- eMailBridge, 1024 Iron Point Road, Folsom, California 95630, tel: 213-455-2094
- Email Bridge. Inc, 5th Street Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90013, tel: 213-455-2094
- Data Services Inc, 1024 Iron Point Road, Folsom, California 95630, tel: 213-455-2094
- Business Emails List, 1024 Iron Point Road, Folsom, California 95630, tel: 213-455-2094
Typical Data Champions spam starts with lines like:
- Hi, Would you be interested in owning an OPT-IN email list based on your target criteria in an Excel Spread Sheet Format?
- This is Mark, Online Marketing Manager. We are a leading Business Database provider, we provide you prepackaged lists of any Industry according to your requirement that enable you to reach thousands of qualified prospects via Verified Email, Phone & Direct mail.
- Hi, This is Nancy Brown, Database Manager with Email Bridge Inc.
- Hi, I hope you are the right person to discuss about the database of IT Industry. We are a leading player in the list vending industry…
- Hi, This is Linda Davey, Database Manager with Email Bridge Inc. Would you like to reach 7,503,302 plus top level IT decision maker across USA, UK & Canada ?
If you don’t want to hear from us please reply as “Leave Out”