Shaming SA spammers: Results

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.

Shortly after the list was published, ILLUDER.COM Marketing contacted ISPA to find out what they had done wrong and how they could be removed from the list. The Spam Hall of Shame was off to a good start.

After almost two years of naming and shaming spammers one can easily see who persists in spamming, despite their names and domains being publicised on the ISPA website.

According to ISPA they added the details of email database sellers due to the rate at which the volume of spam originating from South Africa has increased.

While there are a number of hard core spammers in South Africa, most spammers only find themselves on the list for a month or two.

E-mail database resellers aren’t scared off as easily, it would seem. The number of sellers in each report have only increased and only one database seller has ever been removed from ISPA’s list since they started publishing it in August last year.

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