Spamhuntress

Manila Industries first came to my attention as a spammer. But later on it’s gotten a lot of folks riled up as an outfit that buys domains people forgot to renew. The domains are then used to earn ad income.

Today, someone left a new edit on the Manila Industries wiki page where contact info was added. I peeked at the logs, and he or she has been thinking about this for close to a week before deciding on adding that information.

Here’s the text from the wiki page:

In speaking with someone at Manila Industries named Jill, who thought I was a prospective job candidate for the legal department (with extensive trademark experience, as she requested), I was provided the following contact information.

Jill Johnson
Manila Industries
714-920-9883

60 Palatine 112
irvine,ca 92612

3845 S bristol 628
Santa Ana, CA 92704

The Santa Ana address has been seen before in whois info, but the Irvine address is new. I also checked the phone number. It’s (provided the number hasn’t been ported somewhere else) a Nextel phone registered in Anaheim.

I checked satellite images on Google maps and yellow pages listings. The Irvine address is also the location of 24-7 Radiology. There’s a residential area nearby, but I’m not quite sure what the house in question is. Looks a bit scuzzy from orbit (Eek, that Google thing isn’t completely housebroken. Next time I searched, the arrow was somewhere else. This time it’s inside the nice gated residential area! If I search for the address, it’s the scuzzy area, and if I search for the Radiology place, it’s the nice area). The Santa Ana location has the arrow pointing at a parking lot. But I’m guessing it’s a mall, and there’s a Nextel retailer in the yellow pages with the same address.

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