If you receive an email with a “Permission Pass” subject line, it’s usually just a request that you permit the sender to spam you. So, do you want spam?
Likewise, any mail coming into your system that’s labeled, “Powered by Interspire,” “Requesting A Quick Conference Call,” or “Meeting Request,” is most likely spam, from our experience.
You may receive one of these “Permission Pass Requests” from the Data Champions/Sloan Marketing spam group, who are forever selling email addresses from an endless number of ever-changing email addresses. How shifty. Their spam is usually discreetly mailed from mail servers so unknown that they rarely get blacklisted.
And you just might receive one of these “Permission Pass” spams from a so-called john.gardner@mails2b.com (who most likely doesn’t exist), mailed from Data Champions’ authsender.com spam server [209.190.75.29]. The mails2b.com spam domain has been around for quite a while. The spam claims that, “You are receiving this email because you are listed as a professional interested in keeping up with information related to your industry and profession,” etc., etc.
Other Data Champions spam addresses and spam-mailing servers we’ve noticed lately include:
claudias@futuristicinc.orgsent from their newdns939.biz [174.141.225.85]spam serversarah.johnson@hourlyacquiredleads.comsent fromsmtp103.biz.mail.in2.yahoo.com(aka Data-Cleansed .Inc)kristi.turner@globalitsearch.comandviktoriya.shaw@globalitsearch.com, sent from theircsemail.netspam server (mail365mx.com [174.141.225.60])linda@leadstime.com(“Linda Williams”), mailed from theirsuperiorns.infospam server (ackermanequities.com[200.35.147.103])greg.jones@infinityintellectual-mail.com, sent from theirtheplanet.comspam server [174.122.143.175]gary.jones@infy-source.comandjames.reid@infy-source.com, sent from thebridgemailsystem.comB2B spam system [66.206.172.134]stephen.jones@performancelists.com, sent fromkundenserver.de[212.227.126.186]jimk@datafinder.us(“Jim Keenan”); we’ve seen previous mails from “Kevin Williams” and “Steve Burns” at this same supposed company, whose domain was just registered a few months ago. The spams all contain the same phone number in Georgia, even though their web site claims they are in Delaware.ralph.miller@databuilder.biz(related tojimk@datafinder.usabove?), mailed from their newmarketviaemail.net[174.141.87.150] spam server (which coincidentally lives in the same block as theircsemail.netspam server)jennifer.mason@targetedemaillists.net, linking to theirfortify-initiatives.comspam domain, and mailed from a new spam server of theirs called calledserverny.com[174.141.226.71] (which also lives on the same block asdatabuilder.biz)stan.ritter@m2pdata.usanddave.dorman@m2pdata.us(market2profit.com), sent from theirhostcats.comspam server [68.67.68.40] (“My name is Stan Ritter and I handle the pre-packaged Email List division atMarket2Profit.com“)
They sure do like inventing simple names for their return addresses, like Greg Jones, Gary Jones and Stephen Jones, who must surely all be related.