South African Spammers: Do you recognize these names?

Im glad MyBB is posting these. Now we know who resells our email addresses!

I'm a victim of a few of these spammers... and sadly I seem to be getting onto more lists, without ever giving my address out to any of them! Big surprise right!
 
I recognise quite a few of these, purely because I receive emails from them continually!

Drives me nuts, I refuse to tolerate SPAM.
 
When it is so easy to build a legitimate (permission based) mailing list, why don't these people go legit. I have been in internet marketing for more than 6 years, have a list of more than 160,000 people and have never even received 1 spam complaint.
 
When ABSA said they want to send credit card statements to me electronically, I gave them a unique, unused email address. Over the years, I received more and more spam and even the occasional phishing email.
 
It seems that they don't mind being on the hall of shame. In fact some of those names were on each of the hall of shame publications since the start.
It will be great if we as MyBB can spam them back, imagine if 5000 MyBB members sends then 2 or 3 emails during the day. Give them some of their own medicine. (But do make use of a fake email address!)
 
Same culprits with seemingly little done about them :(
 
Why isn't The Pro Shop on the list? I've even sent faxes to get of their mailing list. Thanks to Mailwasher I don't see a lot of the spam any more...
 
Bank phishing originates from within the banks. I recently opened an FNB account for PayPal and I swear within a day of giving them my address I began receiving a heavy stream of FNB phishing emails, which I had never received before.

Why do we get so much spam? The answer is simple: as with any direct marketing systems, they work 2% of the time. If you get 2 sales for every 100 emails you send, you're going to to keep sending email. It's a numbers game and the senders don't care if they are labelled as spammers. This is why companies like Facebook are now in such a powerful position to offer communication inter personal systems that will replace traditional email. I reckon that within the next 10 years email as we know it will be completely transformed into closed circuit systems.
 
TimTDP said:
What action is taken against these spammers?
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I for one would love to see almost fanatical groups take on these guys... not the companies, but the people from these long-drop commercial fronts. Find out who-is-who within this zoo, get their personal details and every chance they get single them out as spammers / low life - putting up their pictures and personal details on a website... by placing impossible-to-remove stickers on their vehicles at every opportunity, by graffiti-spraying their homes and premises, by tagging them in public or singling them out wherever they may be encountered.

Yes, a bit extreme, but these f@ks have no qualms about what they do... make their lives very, very visible and uncomfortable and they will move on to a less antagonising revenue stream.

We neeeeeeeeeeeeeeed a local 4chan equivalent!
 
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Dont the ISP's state in their fair use policy that spamming will see that your account is suspended. Then why are the accounts not killed off. Blame the ISP I say
 
I block them using Postini. Since most of these servers are located offshore, stronger spam rules apply/get enforced so maybe we should report the scum bag hosts to their ISP's.
 
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