Biggest SA spammers named and shamed

The South African Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) updated their “Spam Hall of Shame” recently, naming and shaming the country’s spammers and e-mail address resellers.

Until recently it was mainly the embarrassment of appearing on this list which made it a deterrent to spammers, but an announcement by a local firm that it is using this data in fighting spam changes the game.

Pinpoint SecureMail said that they are integrating the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) Hall of Shame anti-spam watchlist in their e-mail protection software.

According to Yossi Hasson, managing director of Pinpoint SecureMail development company SYNAQ, this means that all companies listed on the ISPA spam Hall of Shame are immediately given an extra weighting on SYNAQ’s spam algorithms and are quarantined.

In the first three weeks following the ISPA Hall of Shame integration into Pinpoint SecureMail, SYNAQ identified and blocked 146,926 spam messages sent out by companies included in the list.

The latest spammers and email address resellers listed in ISPA’s spam hall of shame are as follows.

South African spammers:

1. Dynamic Seminars
2. New Heights 1268 / Jaco Derksen
3. SA Webs (not SA Web Design, see note below)
4. Ketler Presentations
5. Brain Power
6. Worldclass Mobile aka Marketing House
7. World Class Products
8. Kaleidoscope Advertising and eMarketing
9. The Peer Group
10. The SA Consumer Initiative
11. Pinny Barak – Bizweb
12. Promo Mail SA
13. Greycell cc / Bad Credit Loans
14. Eddy Wines
15. Jake The Transporter
16. Drive Car Sales / Justgroup-Africa
17. No More Debt / Debt Free Living
18. Marketing Now
19. SA Passport
20. Front Foot Events
21. Plum Solutions
22. Eezi Marketing
23. Craig Sneeden C2IT
24. Winners Circle
25. Richard Catto
26. Jimmie Somers
27. South African Centre for Health Management cc
28. African Experience Golf Tours
29. FiF 247 Information Services
30. Kevin Croft
31. Tom Goldgamer
32. Top In
33. Master Lists
34. Bulk eMail services
35. IITA
36. Kidz Memoriez
37. Bidding Buzz
38. Grunder Marketing
39. SaveHost
40. WebSites4SA – Johan Steyn
41. Flossnet.org.za
42. Marketing Counts
43. Manhattan Hotel

Address resellers:

1. Mark Tribelhorn
2. Affordable Construction
3. Rain Marketing
4. Peter Van Wyk – Media Online (not The Media Online, see note below)
5. Mandy Simone
6. Timothy Heston
7. Jonathan Schoeman: BP Media & SMSCity
8. Verosha Bisnath
9. ListSA
10. Email Marketing South Africa
11. Web Marketing Today
12. All Things SA
13. Data Corp SA
14. Trinity Designs
15. Trevor Jones
16. MailMagic
17. DataInc
18. Jannie Pretorius, Group3Properties
19. Silent G
20. Michael Fraser, Pink Soda Marketing
21. Graham Naude, Eezi Marketing
22. Marketing Now
23. Abram Morake
24. Aqua Direct Marketing
25. Master Lists SA
26. Bulk eMail services
27. [email protected]
28. Tony Baker – SA Data Marketing
29. Lowveld Media