One of the many dozens of identifies used by the Data Champions group to sign their B2B spam is “Bruce Wilson.” They use the “Bruce Wilson” name in conjunction with their acquiredatanetworking.com domain name.
Of course, there is no web site at acquiredatanetworking.com. One recent spam we’ve seen from them says, “Going through your website I understand your target audience is IT decision makers. Or if you already have an existing database with missing information, get it cleansed or appended today.” The spam is signed, “Regards, Bruce, Marketing Consultant.”
However, earlier spam received from “Bruce” is signed “Bruce Wilson, Business Development Manager.” It doesn’t matter much, since he doesn’t exist, and has no address or phone number. Presumably, any reply to this spam would go straight back to Data Champions in India.
Spam signed by “Bruce,” has been mailed from various different anonymous Data Champions spam servers as they cycle through them. We’ve seen “Bruce spam” mailed from their 101server.com [174.141.227.188], serverny.com [174.141.226.71], serveridream.com ([174.141.226.243], mdl220.com [66.96.207.224] and dns342.com [174.141.226.59] spam servers.
The subject line used on much of their “Bruce spam” (and B2B spam with other signatures too) is “Technology Email Lists and Email Appending.”