After deleting 2751 unopened emails from my junk folder I thought about our DM class on email marketing. I was surprised by the effectiveness of this mean of communication, which works relatively well not only with "real" offers, but also with pure spam campaigns.
I became curious about those companies whose only reason of existence is sending millions of unwanted emails. Most of these will end up straight in the junk mail box, however, a small percentage will be read and an even smaller percentage will generate a lead.
I thus looked for the best in class, the Warren Buffets of the spammers: the top 10 worst spammers.
According to the Spamhouse, a website specialized in Spam (the equivalent for spam of the WSJ or the FT), among the best 10 spammers, there are 4 American, 2 Ukranian, 2 Canadian, 1 Indian and 1 Hong Kong companies or individuals.
Here is the list of the Spammers. Whether you want to add them to your spam filter list or take them as a role model, is your call.
1)
Canadian Pharmacy - Ukraine
A long time running pharmacy spam operation. They
send tens of millions of spams per day using botnet techniques.
Probably based in Eastern Europe, Ukraine/Russia. Host spammed web sites
on botnets and on bulletproof Chinese web hosting.
2)
Yair Shalev / Kobeni Solutions - United States
High volume snowshoe spammer from Florida,
(former?) partner-in-spam of ROKSO spammer Darrin Wohl. Son-in-law of
ROKSO listed spammer Dan Abramovich. Sued by FTC in 2014 due to fraud.
3) Century Infotech - India
India based spammers-for-hire. They rent an
endless number of servers to host their own spam webpages and the
webpages of their spam-clients, such as the infamous "Flooring"
spammers.
4) Michael Lindsay / iMedia Networks - United States
Lindsay's iMedia Networks is a full-fledged
spam-hosting operation serving bulletproof hosting at high premiums to
well known ROKSO-listed spammers. His customers spam via botnet zombies
with spam payloads hosted offshore, tunneled back to his servers. He
and the gang have been hijacking (stealing) IP address space from
companies for years to spam from. Illegal in the USA.
5) Jagger Babuin / BHSI - Canada
Romanian spammer now living in Vancouver BC. Also known as the "Dr Oz" spammer.
6) Yambo Financials - Ukraine
Huge spamhaus tied into distribution and billing
for child, animal, and incest-porn, pirated software, and
pharmaceuticals. Run their own merchant services (credit-card
"collection" sites) set up as a fake "bank."
7)
Vincent Chan gang - Hong Kong
Vincent Chan and his Chinese partners have been
sending spam for years. They mainly do pharmacy, and are able to send
out huge amounts daily. They use vast numbers of compromised computers
-- for sending, hosting and proxy hijacking. Now seem to be an
"oursourced" server obtainer for other spam gangs.
8)
First Place SEO & financial fraud spam gang - United States
Seem to be either Northern New Jersey or San
Diego, California based scammers. They rent endless numbers of servers
and buy endless domains to then pump out "SEO", search-engine-rankings
and financial fraud scam spams.
9)
Dante Jimenez / Aiming Invest - United States
Spamwarez, lists, "bulletproof" hosting in the
finest South Florida tradition. Working with worst cybercriminal botnet
spammers.
10)
Josh Henderson or Nicholson - bulletproofvps.com - Canada
Offshore Bulletproof Hosting is his thing.
More information on:
http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/spammers/
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