Spam Busters: Getting some info together
>> This is article number two in a series of three, being,”Spam Reply Template“, this article and “Template to use for a company selling your details to spammers“.
Maybe you are so lucky to receive a reply from a spammer, telling you where they got your contact details from and it seems as if your details where bought from a provider. What now?
First, you need to do some homework.
You will have to get the information of the company – most probably your information is sold by a Close Corporation or (Pty) Ltd company. This you can do on the Cipro website, either from the company’s registration number (most effective, so try and get this from the spamming company), or the company’s name. To get hold of the director/member’s details, you have to search for the company by searching with the CC/Co’s registration number (look on the left hand side of the screen). For a R30 fee, you can get all the spam-list-selling company’s contat details, registered offices, registered members/directors (with ID numbers), etc.
Your research is not yet over – try and get as much information as possible about the offending contact-selling-co. From the details that you get from Cipro, you can get hold of the accounting officer’s contact details by contacting the accounting officer’s professional body (for example, SAICA or SAIPA: a written request for the contact details is normally sufficient to get hold of the info).
Other good sources for information is to do credit checks on the members of the CC (remember, you got the ID number of the members/directors from Cipro), where you should be able to find most of the members/director’s contact details such as telephone numbers or addresses.
Don’t forget to try avenues such as google, facebook and linkedin to find more information about the people behind the contact-selling-co. Contact-selling-co’s will have to somehow be available online for people to find them, otherwise they won’t have much business.
A honeypot set up specifically to draw the contact-selling-co in to divulge some information might also be a good avenue to gain more insight in to the workings of the company (and probably some more contact information too).
Next up: a template to send to the contact-selling-co…
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