information take from ROKSO:
Long-running spamhaus based in India. Does “e-marketing” of all sorts, unfortunately including unsolicited bulk e-mail, e-pending/appending address acquisition, list sales, mailshots and all that realm of abuse vectors. Spams to advertise its own marketing services. Uses fake names in the spam, but generally sends from its own dedicated IPs. Based in India but uses USA and UK mail drops. Uses many aliases, both business names and personal names. Sometimes tries to fool Spamhaus that he’s not really Data Champions; we know he tries the same excuse with ISPs.
Use of data (lists) purchased from Data Champions has hurt the reputations of many small businesses which are ignorant of the bad practices and outright fraud so common in the mailing biz.
Data Champions owner Subhakar “Sam” Surapaneni appears to reside in the physical jurisdiction of India, probably Bangalore.
Data Champions uses many domains, but not as many as the Russian pillz spammers. Partial list includes:
6FigureChampions
appendsolutions.biz
b2bmcs.com
brigadebig.com
datachampions.com (changed hands?)
datachampions.net
datachampionsemail.com
datachampionsonline.com
eBizChannel
emailappenders.com
emailappenders.net
emailsuper.com
eventgain.com
giantwebdata.com
gmadirect.com
ipmomentum.biz
ipmomentum.com
legitsender.com
listgalaxy.com
listorbitonline.com
listsolutionsweb.com
mailsb2b.com
mailsuper1.com
mails1.com
maill1.com
mmaill1.com
mmail1.com
maila1.com
maile1.com
maili0.com
maili9.com
mailil.com
mails1.net
mailsuper1.com
optinbuilders.biz
optinbuilders.com
optinmailonline.com
RecruitingJunction.com
salesbrowser.com
salesbrowser.net
salesuniverse.biz
salescola.com
sixchannels.com
SixChannelsmail.com
sloanmail.com
SloanMarketing.com
starglobaloffices.com
starmailbox.com
stech.com
stratmail.com
surveyregister.com
supremelists.com
tracks1.com
unwindzone.com
waves1.com
webdatachampions.com
webshow1.com
Name…………..Vinay S Kumar
Phone number……9180 4115-4690 Ext 4180
E-mail…………[email protected]
Location……….IPTech #1117, Indiranagr Bangalore, Karnataka 560036 India
Business name…..IPTech
Also known as:
Madhu BK
Nataraj
INFO
Manjunath.B.K. <[email protected]>
Subhakar Rao Surapaneni (goes by Sam Surapaneni)
Vinay Kumar
13/33 4th block
Bangalore, KA 560034
[email protected]
Hema Malini
([email protected]@122.166.21.27)
Nelsom Bentan [613-941-4184]
…and many other aliases. In fact, pretending to not know Data Champions and to be some completely different person and company is one of Sam’s tell-tale behaviors.
Phones:
800-718-4087
800-718-7190
800-718-3291
800-718-9941
800-718-2757
800-718-9804
800-718-7501
800-225-2801
888-400-1605
888-471-3801
888-471-3832
888-798-3840
781-303-2666
832-932-1529
732-579-5649
888-890-2476 Aug/Sep 2009
888-590-9762 Sep 2009
866-978-8101 Oct/Nov 2009
888-400-1602 Jan 2010
866-978-6955
800-860-2583
e-mail (many):
[email protected]
“INFO” <[email protected]> (AST)
“Madhu BK” <[email protected]>
“Madhu BK” <[email protected]>
“Nataraj” <[email protected]>
Domain POC e-mail (many):
[email protected]
They may be trying out the VOIP market, ipmomentum.com, or could that just be like other spammers, a front for botnet spamming?
5715 Will Clayton, #2963
Humble, TX 77338
Telephone: 281-973-5031
Authenticlists, Inc.
1013 Catamaran St, 1
Foster City, CA 94404
[email protected]
5715 Will Clayton #2962
Humble TX 77338
USA
86 Ferndale Road
Leytonstone
London E113DN
United Kingdom
Various aliases, psuedonyms and “AKAs”:
Vinay Kumar <[email protected]>
13/33 4th block
Bangalore, KA 560034
Joe Anderson <[email protected]>
3909 Lost Creek Drive
Dallas, TX
430-200-0130
Tony Huff
[email protected]
[email protected]
Raj Mohan
IT consultants pvt ltd
[email protected]
72, 1st floor
BSK 2nd Stage
Bangalore, Karnataka
560085
India
Phone Number 00918041511296
Q4 2010:
[email protected]
Online WebPublishing Pvt Ltd
phone: 918041154710 # India is +91 dialing code
Vanu Aiyanna
258/A, 2nd Floor, 14th Main, Sector 7, HSR Layout,
Bangalore, Karnataka, India 560102
09632323307
Xplore Infosystems
501 Silverside Rd, Suite 105
Wilmington,
DE 19809
USA
Xplore Infosystems
10685-B Hazelhurst Dr. # 2963
Houston, TX 77043
USA
Ph: 281-668-8372
Email : [email protected]
Billing : [email protected]
Xplore Infosystems
#6, 1st Floor, 21st Main,
Near BDA Complex,
2nd Stage, Banashankari,
Bangalore
KA – 560070
India
Ph: +91-8042096194
Ph: +91-9341141669
| MEDIA: Yikes: Another Bad List Deal |
Yikes: Another Bad List Deal
Sep 23, 2008 8:16 PM, by Ken Magill
Yet a third marketer has come forward claiming to have been ripped off in an e-mail list deal with a firm apparently related to an alleged spamming operation in India.
Amy Harold, a marketing specialist with a U.S. manufacturing firm whose management asked that its name kept out of this story, said that in November 2007 she paid up front a $3,500 required-minimum-buy to Sales Universe to append e-mail addresses to a file of close to 1,600 records for 60 cents match. Business-to-business files lists tend to be much smaller than business-to-consumer lists.
Upon completion of the project, the cost of all the valid matches was to be applied to the $3,500 advance and whatever remained was to be banked for future work, said Harold.
The list they sent had 40% bad information, so they promised me half-price on my next list, she said in an e-mail exchange with this newsletter.
And thats when the relationship went south, according to Harold.
When I tried to use the balance, they would not let me spend it without another big purchase on top of it, she wrote. I pointed out that it was illegal to do that, but he [Kevin Daniel, Sales Universes representative] didn’t care. Our corporate lawyer sent him a letter explaining exactly why it was illegal (a tying arrangement that is prohibited under applicable federal and state antitrust laws), but there was no response.
Harold then filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau of Oakland, CA.
Two weeks later, I got a call from SalesUniverse’s customer service (a New York City phone number), wrote Harold. Kevin Cooper promised to be in touch every day until the issue was resolved. He, along with his boss Susan Jones, stayed in touch long enough to promise me the list I am due and to get my list parameters. That was a month ago. I have been calling their number for two weeks – no response. Same with e-mails.
The Better Business Bureau determined Sales Universes name to be OptInLists at 2370 Market Street in San Francisco. BBBOnline lists the complaint as unresolved. BBBOnline also notes that the company also does business as Event Gain. A call to the Better Business Bureaus dispute specialist handling Harolds complaint was not returned.
As reported here last week, there is evidence that Sales Universeor OptInListsmay be part of a network of firms operated by Data Champions/Sloan Marketing, which according to anti-spam outfit Spamhaus, is an India-based spamming operation that also operates EmailAppenders.com.
EmailAppenders is in an unresolved dispute with U.S.-based Javelin marketing over an alleged $14,000 list deal gone bad.
At the same time, EventGain.com and OptInMailOnline.com also list the 2370 Market Street address as their U.S. operationstwo Web sites that, according to anti-spam outfit Spamhauss Registry of Known Spam Operations, are operated by India-based Data Champions/Sloan Marketing.
According to Spamhaus, Data Champions/Sloan Marketing also operates EmailAppenders.com.
Kevin Daniel, the name given to Harold by the Sales Universe representative, is the same one Scott MacAdam, proprietor of MacAdam Magazine Marketing was given in a similar deal he claims went bad.
According to MacAdam, he paid upfront for an append job on behalf of a client and when the file Sales Universe returned to him had significant amounts of garbage names on it, Sales Universe failed to live up to its end of the bargain and provide a partial refund.
As of deadline, MacAdam said he had yet to get the refund he believes he is due from Sales Universe.
Also at deadline, Bob Richards, marketing director at Javelin, said he had accepted an unspecified offer to settle his dispute with EmailAppenders but has yet to receive any money.
Sales Universes Daniel did not respond to requests for comment on the alleged dispute with Harold. The comment requests were left on his voice mail and sent to an e-mail address Daniel used to reply to this newsletters request for comment for last weeks article on Sales Universes alleged dispute with MacAdam.
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Original article: http://directmag.com/disciplines/email/0923-bad-list-deal/index.html