... Hello ---
Below is a fresh list of dates and domains. All times are Pacific (GMT - 7).
Kind regards,
Sean Sowell
... 20050615-1132 inphonic.com ...
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Most of your list is recognizable spammers, but I've actually bought from inphonic and can recommend them. Not only are they often the least expensive (re. the largest rebate on free cell phones) place to get most US carriers' cell phones (Amazon comes in as, surprising to me, a close second place usually), but their service is very good, and they have never sent me any email except a single follow-up after each transaction.
Are you certain the user didn't call one of their telephone numbers? They use *many* company names and many domains - with different and *hidden* pricing structures. It is tricky to find the best price from them (they may have a half dozen different prices for the same thing, depending on the path you take and the cookies you accept to get to a page - very disingenuous, but legal - I often tell people to just use Amazon, whose pricing is easier to deal with - and far simpler). Once you deal with any of the "front" companies everything later comes from the parent - inphonic.com (and even worst - they seem to have "affiliates" who do re-directs and mirror pages).
It also seems unlikely to be an "affiliate" spam case, since all the affilaites I have seen use a different domain to start, then mark your session with one or more cookies (it is far cheaper to go direct, don't walk the tree and accept no cookies - then you usually get offered the lowest of the available prices). Also, I think they are the single largest reseller for both Cingular and T-Mobile (and they were for AT&T, pre-merger).
Paul Shupak track@plectere.com