{"id":128,"date":"2011-06-29T14:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2011-06-29T14:06:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:06:25","slug":"anonymous-spam-domains-in-data-champions-b2b-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous spam domains in Data Champions B2B spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The list of domains, usually anonymous, that appear in B2B spam sent by the India-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spamhaus.org\/rokso\/listing.lasso?file=1082\">Data Champions<\/a> and similar scam groups selling email addresses is always growing.<\/p>\n<p>A few recent samples include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>* b2bbusinessinfo.com<\/strong><br \/>\nRegistered to a party in India, this domain (new this year) sometimes sends spam from an anonymous mail server called <code>internetworldwide.in<\/code> [<code>209.160.33.22<\/code>]. A so-called &#8220;Debra Smith&#8221; from India (<code>debra.smith@b2bbusinessinfo.com<\/code>) writes in her email entitled &#8220;Requesting a 15 Minute Conference Call:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi,<br \/>\nMy name is Debra Smith and I am with the online marketing division I came across your company website and found that we have a potential customer list who might be interested in your products or services. We are a list compiler and a dominant player in the Business List Industry with over 22 Million B2B contacts across North America and 10 Million of B2B contacts for Europe, Asia, Middle East and Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many Data Champions spams include the claim that, &#8220;We are dominant player in Business List Industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Debra Smith from India signs her email as &#8220;Online Marketing Executive&#8221; (no company name) and uses this phone number: 646 462 4181. Debra Smith from India &#8220;regret[s] if I have intruded your privacy. We respect your privacy. If you want to stop receiving emails from us, please send a reply with the email subject line as &#8220;Leave out&#8221;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>* business-mails.info<\/strong><br \/>\n<code>Business-mails.info<\/code> has no web site and has anonymous domain registration.<\/p>\n<p>B2B spam entitled &#8220;Missing contact details&#8221; is signed by a so-called Sophia Philips (<code>sophiap@business-mails.info<\/code>).  The spam may be sent from a Data Champions anonymous spam server called <code>ap1host.com [174.141.226.217]<\/code> and hosted at <code>bodhost.com<\/code>, like several other Data Champions domains.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello,<br \/>\nWe are an online marketing firm specializing in Email list, Email Marketing, Email Appending etc., We add missing information to the internal client database. Missing information can be anything such as company name, Contact name, Phone number, Fax number, Physical address, SIC code, Employee size, email address and more..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Sophia Philips&#8221; from India has no company name and no telephone number.  She simply signs her spam as &#8220;Marketing Manager.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>* newgenlists.com<\/strong><br \/>\n<code>Newgenlists.com<\/code> is a new anonymous domain registered a couple of weeks ago. It has no web site. Nonetheless, &#8220;Lori Brown&#8221; from India <code>lbrown@newgenlists.com<\/code> is sending spam from that domain (a <code>webhostingpad.com<\/code> server [<code>204.93.163.99<\/code>]). Subject line: &#8220;Decision Makers Industry Professionals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi,<br \/>\nWould you looking for following Job Title:<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00b7 Commercial and Defense Operators<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00b7 CEOs and high-level decision-makers<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00b7 Government and Industry Program Managers<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00b7 Policy Makers<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00b7 Scientists, Researchers and Students<\/p>\n<p>If yes, then we have with full details like contact name, business name, job title, mailing address, telephone number, fax number, contact person deliverable email address with verification date and time stamp.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lori Brown from India signs her spam as a &#8220;Marketing Executive&#8221; (no company name), and claims that her address is 100 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 (a virtual office space and mail drop, not a true business office). Her phone number is supposedly 646-915-0575.<\/p>\n<p>Lori from India concludes her spam: &#8220;If you&#8217;re not interested to further emails, please reply with the subject line as &#8220;UNSUBSCRIBE&#8221;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of domains, usually anonymous, that appear in B2B spam sent by the India-based Data Champions and similar scam groups selling email addresses is always growing. A few recent samples include: * b2bbusinessinfo.com Registered to a party in India, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/?p=128\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b2b-spam-email-lists","category-email-lists-for-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}