{"id":53,"date":"2010-12-09T15:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2010-12-13T17:17:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T01:17:21","slug":"this-weeks-b2b-spam-more-names-and-email-addresses-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.b2b-bl.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s B2B spam: more names and email addresses for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you receive an email with a &#8220;Permission Pass&#8221; subject line, it&#8217;s usually just a request that you permit the sender to spam you.  So, do you want spam?<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, any mail coming into your system that&#8217;s labeled, &#8220;Powered by Interspire,&#8221; &#8220;Requesting A Quick Conference Call,&#8221; or &#8220;Meeting Request,&#8221; is most likely spam, from our experience.<\/p>\n<p>You may receive one of these &#8220;Permission Pass Requests&#8221; from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spamhaus.org\/rokso\/listing.lasso?file=1082\">Data Champions\/Sloan Marketing spam group<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>And you just might receive one of these &#8220;Permission Pass&#8221; spams from a so-called <code>john.gardner@mails2b.com<\/code> (who most likely doesn&#8217;t exist), mailed from Data Champions&#8217; <code>authsender.com<\/code> spam server [209.190.75.29].  The <code>mails2b.com<\/code> spam domain has been around for quite a while. The spam claims that, &#8220;You are receiving this email because you are listed as a professional interested in keeping up with information related to your industry and profession,&#8221; etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>Other Data Champions spam addresses and spam-mailing servers we&#8217;ve noticed lately include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>claudias@futuristicinc.org<\/code> sent from their new <code>dns939.biz [174.141.225.85]<\/code> spam server<\/li>\n<li><code>sarah.johnson@hourlyacquiredleads.com<\/code> sent from <code>smtp103.biz.mail.in2.yahoo.com<\/code> (aka Data-Cleansed .Inc)<\/li>\n<li><code>kristi.turner@globalitsearch.com<\/code> and <code>viktoriya.shaw@globalitsearch.com<\/code>, sent from their <code>csemail.net<\/code> spam server (mail365mx.com [174.141.225.60])<\/li>\n<li><code>linda@leadstime.com<\/code> (&#8220;Linda Williams&#8221;), mailed from their <code>superiorns.info<\/code> spam server (<code>ackermanequities.com<\/code> [200.35.147.103])<\/li>\n<li><code>greg.jones@infinityintellectual-mail.com<\/code>, sent from their <code>theplanet.com<\/code> spam server [174.122.143.175]<\/li>\n<li><code>gary.jones@infy-source.com<\/code> and <code>james.reid@infy-source.com<\/code>, sent from the <code>bridgemailsystem.com<\/code> B2B spam system [66.206.172.134]<\/li>\n<li><code>stephen.jones@performancelists.com<\/code>, sent from <code>kundenserver.de<\/code> [212.227.126.186]<\/li>\n<li><code>jimk@datafinder.us<\/code> (&#8220;Jim Keenan&#8221;); we&#8217;ve seen previous mails from &#8220;Kevin Williams&#8221; and &#8220;Steve Burns&#8221; 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.<\/li>\n<li><code>ralph.miller@databuilder.biz<\/code> (related to <code>jimk@datafinder.us<\/code> above?), mailed from their new <code>marketviaemail.net<\/code> [174.141.87.150] spam server (which coincidentally lives in the same block as their <code>csemail.net<\/code> spam server)<\/li>\n<li><code>jennifer.mason@targetedemaillists.net<\/code>, linking to their <code>fortify-initiatives.com<\/code> spam domain, and mailed from a new spam server of theirs called called <code>serverny.com<\/code> [174.141.226.71] (which also lives on the same block as <code>databuilder.biz<\/code>)<\/li>\n<li><code>stan.ritter@m2pdata.us<\/code> and <code>dave.dorman@m2pdata.us<\/code> (<code>market2profit.com<\/code>), sent from their <code>hostcats.com<\/code> spam server [68.67.68.40] (&#8220;My name is Stan Ritter and I handle the pre-packaged Email List division at <code>Market2Profit.com<\/code>&#8220;)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you receive an email with a &#8220;Permission Pass&#8221; subject line, it&#8217;s usually just a request that you permit the sender to spam you. So, do you want spam? 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