Truckerjobsearch.com - spam, scam or stupidity?

I'm not interested in trucks, there is no reason for anyone to send me an email about trucking. And usually, when I see email about "transportation" jobs, then it tends to be some sort of money mule scam.

So a spam email advertising truckerjobsearch.com rang alarm bells - it certainly seemed to tick all the boxes for a scam operation. But is it a scam?

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Originating IP is 199.239.248.221 which identifies itself as truckerout.com, the spamvertised site is hosted on 161.58.218.47. Both servers are hosted by NTT America Inc.

An investigation into the domain names and registration details shows that the sites appear to be legitimate, the sending IP address and the rDNS matches the advertised sites. There is no indication that these sites are not exactly what they say they are. So what gives?

The most common explanation for seeing spam of this type is that the operators have been conned into buying a CD that promises millions of email addresses for a very low price. Very often, these are simply scraped from web sites, or can even be just completely made up.

In all likelihood, the person marketing for this company has bought a bad mailing list in good faith. It doesn't mean that they are not a spammer (the email is certainly not CAN SPAM compliant), but it goes to demonstrate just how easy it is to damage your reputation by mismanaging an email campaign. Buying in mailing lists is best avoided, and even reputably list brokers can sell lists that have been contaminated with bad data. The only real way to be certain is to collect your own lists, if you have to buy them in then you need to research the company you are dealing with to ensure that they really exist and are wholly above board.