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Wednesday 24 July 2013

More deceptive parkconnect.net / Emailmovers Ltd spam

This spam (sent to a scraped email address) is an apparent front operation for Emailmovers Ltd, who are using the parkconnect.net domain to hide who is spamming. I have caught them doing this before:

From:     Adam Perkins [adam.perkins@parkconnect.net]
Date:     24 July 2013 01:26
Subject:     The world’s most energy efficient sustainable hand dryer
Mailing list:     cGFya2Nvbm5lY3QubmV0LzIzNTM3ODI=
Signed by:     parkconnect.net

Hi,

As part of your vision of a more sustainable organisation, I have something interesting to share with you.

My client produces the world's most efficient hand dryer, achieving a Guinness World Record for its energy efficiency, drying 43 pairs of hands for an operating cost of just 1p, that’s the cost of a single sheet of paper!

The dryer uses 66% less energy than the Dyson range of hand dryers, also lasting 10x longer than conventional dryers, it’s fast becoming the market leader used by multinational organisations such as British Airways, Marriott Hotels & McDonald’s to name a few.

Furthermore, the company's products qualify for ECA scheme and have been added to the Energy Technology Product List. This means that your business can claim 100% first-year capital allowance for your investment, which can provide a helpful cash flow boost, and shorten your payback period.

Purchasing a dryer could not be easier, you can purchase the product outright or rent it for less than your energy saving! Rentals cost as little as £2.51p per week, and cut your energy bills by up to 88%.
Speak to someone now about finding the best price plan for you.

See the top 7 features and benefits of this hand dryer:
1. Uses only 550W and dries in 15 seconds
2. Significant energy and cost savings of up to 88%
3. Comes with an industry leading 7-year warranty
4. Low operating sound from 83dB
5. Easy Install, Retro fitting - no rewiring or re-plastering required
6. Brushless motor - 10 times more life & little or no maintenance
7. Short payback period - up to 12 month max.

Please leave your details in the form here, or alternatively reply directly to this email.

Many thanks
Adam Perkins
Park Connect

Email: adam.perkins@parkconnect.net

Tel: 0843 289 3149

145 Irving Grove, Corby, Northamptonshire, NN17 2BL

To no longer recive emails from Park Connect please click here

The content of this email is intended only for the person(s) (“Intended Recipient”) to whom it is addressed. It may contain information which is privileged and confidential. Accordingly any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any of its content by any person other than the Intended Recipient may constitute a breach of civil or criminal law and is strictly prohibited. If you are not the Intended Recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible. The security of email communication cannot be guaranteed and Park Connect accepts no liability for claims arising as a result of the use of this medium to transmit messages to or from Park Connect. Any views expressed in this email are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies them to be of Park Connect.

This is what you see if you visit the site:



The email originates from 109.169.23.142 (Iomart Hosting, UK) and spamvertises parkconnect.net hosted on the same server. The domain is registered with anonymous WHOIS details and has no obvious ownership details.

The address "145 Irving Grove, Corby, Northamptonshire, NN17 2BL" is a complete fabrication. Irving Grove is a little cul-de-sac in Corby, and as you can see it consists of about 22 houses. There is no number 145. There is also no active company called "Park Connect" operating in the UK according to Companies House (there is a dormant company of the same name in Birkenhead, almost definitely unrelated). Pretty deceptive, huh?

But previously when I have emailed Park Connect, I get a reply from Emailmovers Ltd. Odd that, isn't it? Either "Park Connect" are acting as a lead generator of Emailmovers, or they are simply a front for Emailmovers. Either way, it doesn't reflect very well on Emailmovers, does it?

Thursday 4 July 2013

Mystery spam leads to Emailmovers Ltd (emailmovers.com / emvrs.co)

Some time ago I received a spam sent to a scraped email address promoting email marketing services (i.e. spam) which features fake contact details and a carefully anonymised web site at prospectdirect.org that shielded the identity of the spammers.

So who was behind this spam? Well, the easiest way to find out was to pretend to be interested. I filled in the contact form on the site and eventually got a reply from an outfit called Email Movers Ltd. Now, let's be clear - I don't know 100% that Email Movers were responsible for sending the original spam, but somehow my "lead" ended up with this UK-based marketing company.

The enquiry I made was about PPI leads, the mainstay of many sleazy marketing outfits.  The response I got was as follows:

From:     Jonathan Coleman [jonathan.coleman@emailmovers.com]
Date:     23 May 2013 11:06
Subject:     RE - PPI Leads

Hi [redacted],

Thank you for your enquiry. We have excellent PPI data consisting of over 1 million contacts.

The database consists of UK consumers who have taken out a loan within the last 6 years with a payment protection policy attached to the loan. We have called each consumer from a 300 seat call centre in order to verify these details. The flat file we used in order to contact these consumers was originally one of the country’s largest loan packagers completion files.


Available:
Data Name
Home address
Postcode
Landline telephone number
Mobile telephone number

Selections:
Available 300+ selections available via our syndicated multiple overlay platform.
Example selections include:
Credit rating
Credit history
Credit ac
-----------------------------------------------------------------

The data doesn't get released, we will conduct the email broadcast for you. Min order value applies, no less than 50 000 records and it is £1650. Other volumes are priced as following:

50,000 at £1650 + VAT
100,000 at £1990 + VAT
250,000 at £2700 + VAT
500,000 at £4300 + VAT
1 Million at £8000 + VAT

What do you think?

Jonathan Coleman

Senior Account Manager

D: +44 (0)1723 800022
T: +44 (0)845 226 7181
   

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Emailmovers Ltd, Pindar House, Thornburgh Road, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO11 3UY UK

Registered in England No. 5046417. Registered office: Medina House, No 2 Station Avenue, Bridlington, YO16 4LZ. United Kingdom.
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This email comes from an emailmovers.com address with a link to a website emvrs.co. The email originates from a Google IP, so no real clue as to its origin.

Emailmovers have been around for quite a while, but they had attracted quite a lot of adverse comments for spam [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. They have quite a lot of websites too, in addition to emailmovers.com and emvrs.co, but one in particular caught my eye.. the domain emailinspector.co.uk which is an "email validation" service. Check out the last paragraph in particular:
Email databases decay at an alarming rate. It is imperative to keep your data as accurate and as clean as possible to maintain a good sender reputation and improve the deliverability of your email list.

Email Inspector is a revolutionary new way of updating and cleansing your email addresses without risking blacklisting your IP. This online service allows you to upload bulk lists of email addresses to check for bounces, wrong addresses and duplicates and leaves you with a clean and up-to-date list that is ready for use.

We can also take your database in-house for further analysis to strip out known complainers and run it against our master spam trap file in our full bureau service.


There's another word for this process.. ListWashing. Legitimate mailing lists should never contain spamtrap data, this is only of use if dealing with scraped or malware-harvested email addresses. Exactly what sort of customers is Emailmovers after with a service like this?

The company QuotesPlease Ltd appears to be largely the same operation, with the same personnel and at the same address.

They own several other domains, at least one of which (email-databases.com) has been hacked (see report), also bizibuy.com has been compromised and defaced. theemailexpert.com has also been defaced recently. I don't know if those server contained any personally identifiable data or not.

Perhaps Emailmovers contracted out the lead generation to another party and buy those leads in good faith. I'm sure you can make up your own mind as to how likely that is.

These following domains all appear to belong to Emailmovers Ltd or QuotesPlease Ltd, do with them what you want:
5mins.co.uk
5mins.info
5minsmail.com
5mins-mail.com
5minsmail.net
5mins-mail.net
5mins-mail.org
5mins-ppm.com
5mins-update.com
b2bcompanylist.com
b2bemaillistsuk.com
b2bmailinglistsuk.com
b2bmarketingcompanieslist.com
bestemailmarketinglists.com
bizibuy.biz
bizibuy.com
businessmailinglistsuk.com
callmovers.co.uk
coastline-gallery.com
companiesthatsellemaillists.com
consumeremaillistsuk.com
countrunner.com
dataseeder.com
dataseeder.net
dataseeder.org
emailappending-emailmovers.com
emailcleansing.com
email-databases.com
emailinspector.info
emailinspector.net
emailinspector.org
emailliststobuy.com
emailmarketingconsultancy.com
emailmarketingconsultation.com
emailmovers.com
emm-mail.org
emm-news.com
ems300live.com
emvrs.co
enudge.com
freewordpresstemplates.biz
grannymave.co.uk
likemovers.com
mailinglistuk.com
onlinebusinessecards.com
quotesplease.co.uk
seedalert.com
socialmediaslot.com
theemailexpert.com
ukconsumeremaildatabase.com
ukconsumeremaillist.com
ukemaildata.com
workmug.com

Added: these following domains are also in use for the inital spam, plus there are more details on the comments section:
parkconnect.net
simplequotes.net

Added (II):  some more domains these spammers use can be found here.

Tuesday 21 May 2013

prospectdirect.org (Emailmovers Ltd) spam

Everything that this spammer says is a lie:

From:     Emily Norton [emily.norton@prospectdirect.org]
To:     [redacted]
Date:     21 May 2013 16:33
Subject:     Cater to your email marketing needs
Signed by:     prospectdirect.org

Hello,

I hope you don’t mind but I just wanted to contact you to discuss your email marketing strategy. If you don’t currently have one that is working for you then our client can help.

The company I am contacting you on behalf of have the dedicated knowledge and services to cater to your email marketing needs.

If you would like a quote please complete this form: http://prospectdirect.org/email-marketing-strategy

Leave your details at the link above or reply with any requirements.

Kind Regards,

Emily Norton

75 Glandovey Terrace, Newquay, Cornwall TR8 4QD

Tel: 0843 289 4698

This email (including any attachments) is intended only for the recipient(s) named above. It may contain confidential or privileged information and should not be read, copied or otherwise used by any other person. If you are not the named recipient please contact the sender and delete the email from your system. If you would no longer like to receive emails from us please unsubscribe here http://www.prospectdirect.org/landing/page.php?jq=[snip]
Firstly, the email was send to a scraped address from the website of the Slimeware Corporation and isn't any sort of opted-in address at all. The address of "75 Glandovey Terrace, Newquay, Cornwall TR8 4QD" simply does not exist, and the telephone number of 0843 289 4698 appears to belong to a completely unrelated company. I very much doubt there is anybody called "Emily Norton" involved, and there is no company in the UK with the name "Prospect Direct".

The website prospectdirect.org itself carefully hides any contact details, the WHOIS details are anonymous, the domain was created on 2012-07-19 and is hosted on 109.235.51.98 (Netrouting / Xeneurope , Netherlands). There are no contact details on the website and there is no identifying information at all.. it hasn't just been omitted by accident, the whole thing has been left meticulously clean by a professional spamming outfit.


I would recommend giving these spammers a wide berth given their catalogue of lies.

Update: filling in the request form gets a response from Emailmovers Ltd (emailmovers.com / emvrs.co). More on them soon...