SA e-mail spammers named and shamed

[Getafix]

You know that only have to click on the "mark as spam"-icon?

Yes you are right.

However it is another story if you are a push SMS service to your cellphone.
Yo pay for every message and not to mention the annoying effect.

 

[Kloofvreter]

If none of these spammers care about being named and shamed, how do you explain the fact that Ketler bothered to take the ISPA to court for naming Ketler as a spamming entity?

Oh, they all care because one did? They consider this a hall of fame, sadly.

 

[j4ck455]

Oh, they all care because one did? They consider this a hall of fame, sadly.

I never claimed that all of the other spammers care about being shamed but the fact that the Ketler spammer cared enough to spend money on a court case and lost with costs, shows that a raw nerve was hit by a simple list.

There is no one silver bullet that will defeat spammers, but a multitude of different silver bullets will do the job, the name and shame list is one very simple bullet.

A good start would be to change the legislation that spammers hide behind, which only makes spamming illegal after an opt-out has been received. Make spamming illegal without an explicit opt-in.

 

[Skerminkel]

Clicking that button moves that current email to the spam folder, but I have found in the past it requires that I mark about ~5 emails from the same address as spam before it takes the hint and moves any future mail from that address automatically to the spam folder.

I guess they probably rely on x number of users to mark the same sender as spam before it gets filtered for all. Works brilliantly with most phising.

 

[Totempole]

Intellistor Marketing should be put on this list. I have unsubscribed from them on numerous occasions to no avail.

 

[kilos]

It would be nice to have the ip range they use and email addresses
May be we could start a thread and every one could contribute .

Most use Email servers abroad

 

[ambo]

Why not name and shame the ISPs who host these spammers? Surely that would be more effective... ?

I don't think any of these guys are using local ISPs. The report has had the effect that no one in SA wants that business. The international providers seem to be less worried about their reputations.