E-mail Appending Plot Thickens

However, there was a company called Sales Online having its mail delivered there until Jan. 31, she said. Ponce added that Regus sent Sales Online’s bills to 2370 Market Street in San Francisco.

The 2370 Market Street address is the same one Sales Universe’s Daniel instructed MacAdam to send his check, according to MacAdam.

This is also the same address that EventGain.com and OptInMailOnline.com list as their U.S. operations—two Web sites that, according to anti-spam outfit Spamhaus’s 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.

Anti-spam outfit Aspews.org also lists EmailAppenders and Sales Universe as two among many aliases used by Sloan Marketing. The Aspews.org listing doesn’t mention Data Champions.

According to Ponce, the Sales Online account with Regus was opened with a credit card and a driver’s license by a woman named Hemamalini Nidamanuri with a Houston, TX drivers license.

According to Spamhaus, the same people who operate EmailAppenders also operate SalesBrowser.com, which lists its U.S. operations as located at 14781 Memorial Drive, Houston, TX.

Also, Ponce said she corresponded with Nidamanuri by e-mail at the address Hemam@mails1.com. According to Spamhaus, Data Champions/Sloan Marketing also operates or has operated the Mails1.com domain.

An e-mail sent to Hemam@mails1.com bounced.

Sales Universe’s Daniel denied ever having heard of EmailAppenders.

“We are not aware of Email Appenders and not a part of any spam ring,” he wrote in his e-mail to this newsletter. “For instance Scott Macadam is our referral client and we follow ethical business practices for lead generation. If we would not have serviced our clients correctly, we wouldn’t have got Scott as a referral.”