Hall of Shame: SA’s biggest spammers
The Internet Service Providers’ Association of South Africa (ISPA) released its first ‘Hall of Shame’ report in September 2008, naming and shaming the country’s top spammers.
The spam Hall of Shame is hosted on the ISPA website as a constantly updated resource listing known South African spammers. “It will be accessible to all ISPA members and will help them to identify and take action against spammers, so that they can conserve their bandwidth and protect their customers against unsolicited electronic messages,” ISPA said at the launch of the program.
With reports that an average of 84.4% of the total volume of email traffic worldwide is spam it’s easy to see that spam remains a huge problem.
The increase in spam originating in South Africa prompted ISPA to not only name and shame spammers, but also unscrupulous email database sellers. “A handful of prolific email address database sellers are playing a major role in the deluge of spam in South Africa,” said ISPA’s Rob Hunter.
The latest ISPA Hall of Shame contains the names of now notorious spammers as well as newcomers in the local spam arena.
- Dynamic Seminars
- New Heights 1268 / Jaco Derksen
- SA Webs
- Bridging Finance | Making money with SMS Shortcodes | Bizopp
- C2IT
- Creativehearts.co.za
- AstroTech Training
- Brain Power
- Werner van Brakel – GVB Holdings
- Secrets2Success
- Cartrader.co.za
- The Convenient Shopper
- Purdon Enterprises
- Newsletter–A Remarkably Effective System
- BPMedia
- Interactive Direct
- E-mail Marketing
- Green Hut
- Media Online
- Sunrise Villas
- Ketler Presentations
- Streamlyn Technologies
- Timothy – Business Boost e-Marketing Package
- “Finance Offered”
- Execqprop
- ICDE
- LegalAdmin Corporate
- VETTA Communication Training Workshops
- Worldclass Mobile
- Inverness Group
- Jonathan Pierce
- Soccer Stressballs
- Laser Express
- Clench-it
- BGreen2-Marketing
- Trading Point
- Msunduzi Gifts
- Corporate Gift Empire
Address resellers identified in this report:
- Mark Tribelhorn
- Affordable Construction
- Rain Marketing
- Peter Van Wyk – Media Online
- Mandy Simone
- ListSA
- Timothy Heston
- BP Media/Jonathan Schoeman
- Verosha Bisnath
- MLD Marketing
This month’s lists continue to see very little change over those of last month. Most notable changes are Planet Fitness’ exit from the list and an increase of the number of spammers from 28 to 38.
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