consequences of Bulk or mass email spamming

Back to: eMail Bolts & Nuts FAQ's

Email Spam tracking 101 - Meaning of email headers

Email Spam tracking 102 - The many uses of DejaNews

Email Spam tracking 103 - The WHOIS database

Email Spam tracking 104 - A spammer unmasked

Thinking of bulk emailing- Consequences of spamming?

Figuring out fake E-Mail - Deciphering fake email or posting?

Need help finding something? Try Google...

Every email sent-out,
are always generated from a real computer
from which it was sent and can be traced...

Meet The Kings Of Spam
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/08/05/tech/main517505.shtml

(AP) Tom Cowles, who heads one of the world's largest bulk e-mail, or spam, businesses, ought to be a happy guy.

By his account, his company makes $12 million a year e-mailing billions of advertisements, mainly to folks who don't want them. It's an easy job, the way Cowles and others describe it:

"You get hired by a client who wants to sell a penile enlarger or an antenna booster. You write a zesty sales pitch. Then, with the help of some cloak-and-dagger software and a massive database of e-mail addresses, you deluge the planet. If one in a thousand recipients buys it, you're rich."

Who Sends Out Spam?

There are different groups of people that send unsolicited commercial email (spam). Some don't provide a real existing email address and a forged one with no opt-out removed from future mailings--because they don't want to receive zillions of complaints. sent to them.

The worse types are the ones that uses someone email address causing the ISP to shut down owner of that email address and receiving tons of "hate mail".

The lost "poor soul" are the ones' who isn't aware of the conventions of the web, buys a disk with millions of names and starts their own advertising campaign. These people are identifiable and will be shut down in a matter of hours and learned their first lesson--in the "school of hard knocks".

A victim of false spam complaints? How to file a victim report?

My email was hijacked / spoofed and got blacklisted?

Are self-sending email spam legal?

A one page course about emailing?
Everything you wanted to know about emailing in a "nut shell"

How email works? Delivery of each email is done by your ISP mail server, first establishing a conversation
through (port 25) of each of your recipient ISP mail server

100% effective.
I recommend it.

The easies way to stop email spam, virus getting
into your PC
Free2-Try

Bounce eMail
Manager Freeware
"A valued contribution that I and the rest of
my team sincerely appreciate it. We have checked your software twice and it is good." Alex webmaster@softpicks.net

Dolly Kee
ImagePower
Managing Director

eMail CRM maximized
the life-time value of my customers, I recommend it
for home office PC Freeware

Most people purchase web server space from a provider which is shared with a few hundred others, therefore, if anyone of them start spamming, it clogs the server and slows down the service for everyone else. Hence, most servers have auto detect features and shuts down your account if the number of bounced emails (bounces) exceeds a certain quantity.

Professional spammers follows all the rules, and send out bulk mail on the behalf of others, using legitimate email address and provide opt-out from receiving future emails and charge a fee from 1 to 5 cents for each mail sent. Professional spamming is big business and involved a lot of money in equipment and operational cost--they have their own servers, dedicated high speed Internet line connection, don't go through any ISPs and are immune from shut-down.

Does this advert look familiar? Perhaps you are thinking of paying some company to do it? It's just another scam--take your money and you can't get your money back because you can't prove they didn't do it or if they did it, you still ends-up with all the (above) problems.

Increase Your Sales 15%-40%
Every Month!

Targeted E-mail Marketing
Is A Proven Method For Return Sales
With a database of over 150 million "targeted" addresses, we can reach your potential clients anywhere in the world. Our staff creates interactive ad campaigns, specifically targeted to your client base, and designed to produce staggering responses for your business. A steady lead source can make sure your sales team will consistently close deals.

The Greatest Return On Your Marketing Dollar
Targeted e-mail marketing is the most effective way to reach global and local markets with a small expense compared to that of conventional marketing. Quality work and a dedicated professional staff will ensure your ad campaign to be successful. Put our educated team of marketers to work for you.

Thinking of bulk or mass emailing?

Let us assume that your business is genuine and you are thinking of mass or bulk email as another cheap form of sales marketing media. It is recommended that you should look into all the possible consequences (below) before considering bulk or mass emailing.

All ISP have anti-spam termination clauses therefore; they can terminate an Internet access account or Website hosting account....

Your email domain can be blacklisted by worldwide anti-spam newsgroup and your mail server can get "mail bombed" until all regular emails are bounced and can't be delivered.
Your company website get hacked and defaced or email domain bombarded with viruses, Trojans, worms, bugs etc. or with junk attachment files.
Spammers tell of telephoned death threats or deer hearts received in the mail the same scheme used to intimidate abortion doctors and may be target of stalkers who has created a Web site larded with pictures of your home or company.
Company fax machine receiving non-stop junk faxes or phone calls from non-stop junk callers or non-stop junk email inquires and attract fraudulent credit card purchase until the merchant account is terminated and having to deal with fraudulent purchasers and bounced payment with risk being prosecuted, litigations/lawsuits.
The spammer gets "fired" (if working for a company), imagine getting more than 50% returned undeliverable email out of 100,000 messages sent plus all the counter-junks mails.

You don't need rocket science to figure out that you need powerful mail server system and strong ISP backbone support.
Since buyers can't get through to you, what is the use of sending them out in the first place? Imagine sending 100,000 spam mails and getting all the above at the same time.

If you are working for a company and spamming without permission--thinking that it is just another method of sales marketing media--you should start looking for a new job. If you have permission to do it (get it in writing) or you will end-up being the scrape-goat and get fired anyway.

Every email sent-out, are always generated from a real computer from which it was sent and can be traced. What ever cloaking method being used, since the objective is to sell something, it always leads to the originator (the seller).

Unless, you are a professional wheeler Dealer and can afford to spend 97% of the time; keep changing email accounts, hosting accounts, merchant accounts, bank accounts, company name, running, hiding, and a retainer legal attorney. You don't need to be like lost "poor soul" and learned your lessons from the "school of hard knocks".

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards
for they are subtle and quick to anger."
Sites dedicated to revenge like
http://www.spamcentral.tsx.org/