{"id":189,"date":"2012-10-09T12:18:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T19:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2012-10-09T12:18:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T19:18:52","slug":"b2b-scams-and-spams-from-india-and-beyond-selling-lists-of-email-addresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"B2B scams and spams from India and beyond, selling lists of email addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much spam in your company&#8217;s mail server selling email addresses on behalf of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spamhaus.org\/rokso\/spammer\/SPM1082\/data-champions-sloan-marketing\">India-based &#8220;Data Champions \/ Sloan Marketing&#8221; spam\/scam group<\/a> and similar entities&#8230;  Here are a few we&#8217;ve seen lately:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spam signed apxstar.com <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apxstar.com is an often-seen fake company and the fake employee signatures in spam from this domain name mail use fake addresses as well. Alternate names for this fake company are many; a few are  &#8220;Asyn Services Pvt Ltd,&#8221; &#8220;Gaintmail Services Pvt Ltd,&#8221; and &#8220;BigMail services Pvt Ltd&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>megan.watkins@apxstar.com<\/strong>: Megan Watkins, &#8220;Business development consultant,&#8221; Asyn Services Pvt Ltd, 105 Pickering Way, Suite 1067, Exton, PA 19341 (no such address). Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called avienet.com [213.175.200.123]<\/li>\n<li><strong>samantha.hill@apxstar.com<\/strong>: Samantha Hill, &#8220;Sr Business Analyst,&#8221; Gaintmail Services Pvt Ltd, 2054 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94204 (no such address). Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called astromae.com [109.230.251.49]<\/li>\n<li><strong>sheena.simmons@apxstar.com<\/strong>: Sheena Simmons, &#8220;Senior Marketing Manager,&#8221; BigMail services Pvt Ltd &#8211; We Create Opportunities!, 2054 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94204 (no such address).  Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called grenstat.com [109.230.244.76]<\/li>\n<li><strong>rachel.dixon@apxstar.com<\/strong>: Rachel Dixon, &#8220;Business Development Consultant,&#8221; Asyn Services Pvt Ltd, 2054 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94204 (no such address).  Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called avienet.com [213.175.200.123]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other recent scammy B2B addresses<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>laura.page@webleadwinners.com<\/strong>: Laura Page, &#8220;Demand Generation Team,&#8221; Weblead Winners, no phone number, no web site, no address. Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called activeapps.biz [199.175.48.232]<\/li>\n<li><strong>rene.miller@datalistbiz.com<\/strong>: Rene Miller, &#8220;Technology Database Specialist,&#8221; 866-978-8534, Technology Data Division (no company name). Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called mxclusterhost.biz [199.223.218.126]. Phone number seen in previous anonymous spam signed by a so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kristin Williams\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [kristin.williams@mailsi.biz] (Marketing Assistant\/List Division, 866-978-8534).<\/li>\n<li><strong>sarah.smith@global-techdata.com<\/strong>: &#8220;Global VMware Users Email List,&#8221; no company name, no phone number. Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called inforelaysrvr.biz [208.115.196.59]<\/li>\n<li><strong>dmartinez@geg-solutions.com<\/strong>: Diana Martinez, &#8220;Marketing Executive,&#8221; GEG Solutions, 5445 DTC Parkway, Suite 800, Dallas County, TX 75202 (company and address does not exist, no phone number supplied). Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called edata-source.com [96.8.113.26]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kevin.Morgan@successmails.com<\/strong>: Kevin Morgan, Technology consultant\/ US Lists division, 512-354-3918: Ext: 4530. Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called eclusterhost.com [199.204.23.147]<\/li>\n<li><strong>as@infysrcten.info<\/strong>: Arthur Staples, &#8220;Business Coordinator,&#8221; Lists &#038; Lists, no address, no phone number. Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called latestdata3.info [74.3.161.113]<\/li>\n<li><strong>bs@mxpdtwelve.info<\/strong>: Bryan Spuler, Omaha, NE 68144, USA (no company name, no phone number). Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called bigoffers2.info [74.3.161.115] sometimes with web bugs on their long-known scam website called sale-bluebase.com.<\/li>\n<li><strong>rolsen@getyourbusiness.info<\/strong>: Robert Olson, &#8220;Senior Marketing Manager,&#8221; DB Media Company, 2150 Sunshine Pl, Miami, FL 53132-2542. Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called bluebasemediacenter.info [206.72.203.231] with web bugs hosted on their supersalemarket.us spam site. They have many junk spam domains containing the word &#8220;bluebase&#8221; like this one. Their 2150 Sunshine Pl address amusingly moves from Miami to Columbus, OH in the entry below.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ds@wear-bluebasethree.info<\/strong>: Don Steiner, &#8220;Senior Marketing Manager,&#8221; Database Media Company (fake name, almost like the one in the entry above), 2150 Sunshine Pl, Columbus, OH 43232-6542. They have many junk spam domains containing the word &#8220;bluebase&#8221; like this one.  Spam sent from their anonymous spam server called supersalemarket.us [46.165.192.142] with web bugs hosted on their supersuccess.us spam site. Their 2150 Sunshine Pl address amusingly was shown as in Miami, instead of Columbus, in the entry just above.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much spam in your company&#8217;s mail server selling email addresses on behalf of the India-based &#8220;Data Champions \/ Sloan Marketing&#8221; spam\/scam group and similar entities&#8230; Here are a few we&#8217;ve seen lately: Spam signed apxstar.com Apxstar.com is an often-seen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/?p=189\">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-189","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\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}