Traffic Exchange Exposed

In the article General En Traffic Empire Allows Spam! I identified a traffic exchange and owner that likes to share his TE database with people that subscribe members to their mailinglist without their permission.

Well, it looks like Kenneth Kraakstad is at it again! The Email address traffantic96@trackahit.net was (it is disabled now) the e-mail address I was using at Traffic Giantic. Here is the header of the spam e-mail:

Return-Path:
Delivered-To: traffantic96@trackahit.net
Received: (qmail 76913 invoked by uid 12660); 5 Feb 2009 03:21:04 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO mta-3.webprosperity.com) ([209.2.33.251])
(envelope-sender )
by 130.94.177.116 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
for
; 5 Feb 2009 03:21:04 -0000
Domainkey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
d=webprosperity.com; s=s1024a; q=dns;
h=from:sender:to:subject;
From: “Mark Makowski”
Sender: jackpot_webprosperity_en@webprosperity.com
To: “Friend”
Subject: Confirm your subscription to “jackpot_webprosperity_en”
Return-Path:
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 22:21:03 -0500
X-Complaints-To: abuse@webprosperity.com
X-Mailer: WebProsperity 1.0
X-Remove-Address: traffantic96@trackahit.net
X-Responder-Id: 704
Message-Id: <1233804063.284537@webprosperity.com>
X-ClamAV: clean
Status:
X-Antivirus: AVG for E-mail 7.5.552 [270.10.17/1933]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Disposition: inline

Everybody is welcome to contact:
“Mark Makowski” at wp.77info@gmail.com
and let him know he is nothing better than a lazy spammer. Express to him that he shouldn’t spam people and subscribe them to mailing lists they are not interested in or did not express an interest in joining.

Have Fun People!

Now, about Mr. Kraakstad. This is the second Traffic Exchnge he owns where my email address was given to an outside individual. Kenneth, wise up man! You are not making any friends in the TE industry when you give out peoples E-mail address. Expect me to delete my account at Traffic Giantic and I wouldn’t be surprised if many others do as well. You just killed any chance of building a Traffic Exchange. It’s all about ethics man. And, you just showed you don’t have any!

Take Care,
Phil

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