The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) first launched its ISPA Hall of Shame in September 2008, an initiative aimed at exposing the country’s biggest spammers.  The “Hall of Shame” is a blacklist of known South African spammers, and to date the project has shown good results.

Numerous local spammers have seen the error of their ways, and have signed an undertaking to observe best practice in the sending of commercial email.  Some other spammers are however less remorseful, and continue to spam local internet users and even resell email databases. 

ISPA has released its latest spammer’s Hall of Shame, naming and shaming South Africa’s biggest spammers and email address resellers.  The following South African spammers were identified in the latest ISPA report:

1. Dynamic Seminars
2. New Heights 1268 / Jaco Derksen
3. SA Webs
4. Computer Corporation Marketing
5. Bridging Finance | Making money with SMS Shortcodes | Bizopp
6. C2IT
7. Creativehearts.co.za
8. Burgundyrealty
9. AstroTech Training
10. Brain Power
11. VillaSienna
12. Werner van Brakel – GVB Holdings
13. Secrets2Success
14. Mail Burst
15. World of Savings
16. Property Auction
17. info@our-email.co.za
18. Urban Solar
19. Cartrader.co.za
20. The Convenient Shopper
21. F2E Admin
22. Golf Resorts Club
23. Purdon Enterprises
24. Property Investment Corporation

This list has grown from 18 spammers last year to 25 spammers, an indication of the escalating battle with unsolicited bulk email sending in the country.  The list of email address resellers also grew from 8 offenders last year to the current 11.  The following address resellers were identified in the latest ISPA report:

1. Mark Tribelhorn
2. Affordable Construction
3. Rain Marketing
4. Media Online
5. Mandy Simone
6. Ezee-dex
7. Timothy Heston
8. BP Media/Jonathan Schoeman
9. Verosha Bisnath
10. MLD Marketing
11. ListSA

The full ISPA Hall of shame, and full details about the spammers and address resellers are available at http://www.ispa.org.za/spam/hall-of-shame

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