Whitehat (aka Whitehat.com, Inc, Whitehat, Inc, American Computer Group), is a spam company; more precisely, a commerical bulk emailer.
Many of the Board Members are known as "anti-spammers", and did not disclose their involvement in the commercial bulk email company. Their deception of the anti-spam community justifies listing Whitehat on IADL.
Directors from 2002 Annual Report:
Rodney Joffe, 4627 E Sanna, Phoenix,
AZ 85028
William Kilburg, 9002 E. Caribbean Lane, Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Paul Vixie, 11400 La Honda Road, Star Route
Box 159A, Woodside, CA 94062
John Levine,
24 Washington Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886-0727
Barbara Rudin, 7557 North Dreamy Draw Drive, #277, Phoenix, AZ 85020
Ray Everett-Church, 4355 Renaissance Drive, #306, San Jose, CA 95134-1559
Directors from 2001 Annual Report
Rodney Joffe, 4627 E Sanna, Phoenix,
AZ 85028
William Kilburg, 9002 E. Caribbean Lane, Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Tom Castellanos, 1001 E. Redondo Drive, Tempe, AZ 85282
Ronald Lachman, 3140 Whisperwoods Ct, Northbrook, IL 60062
| Tradename | Reported Business Type |
| "Whitehat Data Services" | DIRECT MARKETING |
| "Whitehat Interactive" | EMAIL MARKETING |
Email "List washing"
http://www.whitehat.com/i_legacy_lists.php (taken 4/15/2009)
Before Whitehat will take a client's list in-house, we will need to certify the list as being an opt-in list. This service includes a review of the site's privacy policy; review of the current opt-in process; review the data that collected when a member registers, for example, time and date of registration, and IP address.
The next step is to hygiene the email list by running through our scrub script used to remove syntactically incorrect email addresses; addresses that are found on our internal blacklist; and duplicate email addresses. A report would be sent with a final count and files that have the syntactically incorrect addresses, blacklisted addresses and duplicates.
We would then send e-mail to a representative sample of your list. The size of the sample would depend on the current opt-in process - whether your site uses a single opt-in or a confirmed opt-in process and the results of the list hygiene. The certification process should take from 3-5 days to complete. Upon completion, we would prepare the certification email campaign report showing the number of emails sent; the number of bounces; number of unsubscribes and information regarding email replies received.
For more information, contact sales@Whitehat.com.
In 2003, it was discovered that former MAPS employees were performing "listwashing"
services--removing spamtrap addresses--for well-known spammer Scott Richter.
(see "Spam Kings", Brian McWilliams, O'Reilly
2005; pg 252). To many anti-spammers, this represented a "depressing reversal
of ethics" (Spam Kings, pg 254).
This discovery of list-washing by Whitehat appears to put new light on the
activities of the former MAPS employees, and also on the Whitehat employees.