MainSleaze

There’s any number of great resources on Knowledge Hut, such as MyWOT, or this conversation on LinkedIn. Nonetheless, I figured we might add our $.02.

www.knowledgehut.com has a M.O.:

• Register large numbers of domains somehow to do with project management or other such topics
• Sign up with an ESP
• Invent a bundle of fictitious names that sound as if they were native to the ccTLD to which the spam will be sent
• Spam away

Lyris and SendGrid have recently booted them. iContact will soon follow suit. All ESPs should be doing due diligence and avoiding this entity as a customer altogether.

Reply-To: Risto.Helles@agilecertificationtoday.com
Subject: Agile Estimating & planning workshop with 8 PDU

...

Regards,
Risto Helles
Business Manager | Contact No: +44-20-3519-3467 / 1-469-442-0620
...
One Commerce Center, 1201 Orange St. #600, Wilmington City, County New Castle, Delaware, 19899

Or

Regards,
Heidi Rautio
Business Manager | Contact No: +44-20-3519-3467 / 1-469-442-0620

We sincerely apologize if you find this email an intrusion of your privacy or a
source of inconvenience to you.

References

1. http://www.knowledgehut.com/training/hadoop-development-training-Helsinki/x/x

This message was sent to x from:
Heidi Rautio | Heidi.Rautio@myhadoopcourse.com | KnowledgeHut LLC | One Commerce Centre
1201 Orange St. #600 | Wilmington, DE 19899

Needless to say, the phone numbers above are not answered by “Risto”, or “Heidi”, or anybody who spoke Finnish as the fictitious names would suggest. It’s English only, with a heavy Indian accent. All Bangalore, all the time.

Stay away from this bunch.

A bunch of old subjects and fake names. “*” indicates that the message actually contained the regexp “knowledge.*hut”.

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   2     Jan 27 Adel Tan        ( 110) Agile and Scrum Training Work Shop
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   4     Feb 05 Raija Unny      ( 154) MS Project 2010 work-shop
   5     Feb 19 Zoran Valtanen  ( 121) Agile Estimating and Planning Certification Training in Finland
   6     Mar 04 Nicolas Martin  ( 112) PMP Preparation 35 Pdu – Course
   7     Mar 06 Nicolas Martin  ( 111) PMP Self Study Training
   8   * Mar 26 Agilecertificat ( 291) Agile Estimating & planning work shop with 8 PDU
   9   * Apr 02 Prince2bootcamp ( 333) PRINCE2 Project Management Certification
  10     Apr 16 Adel Tan        ( 112) Agile and Scrum training in Finland
  11   * Apr 17 Pmknowledgebase ( 403) Stay ahead with PMP certification
  12   * Apr 24 Agilecertificat ( 436) Certi fied Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Work shop
  13     Apr 29 Zoran Valtanen  ( 158) Agile Estimating and Planning 1day Classroom training
  14 O * Apr 30 Pmknowledgebase ( 409) PMP certification course within 2 days                           
  15     May 07 Nicolas Martin  ( 158) Project Management for Managers
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  17   * May 20 Msprojectbootca ( 377) MS Project 2010 training
  18 O * May 21 prince2bootcamp ( 427) PRINCE2 Certification Course
  19   * May 26 Agilecertificat ( 451) An introduction to Agile & Scrum
  20   * May 27 Agilecertificat ( 409) Training on Agile user stories
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  22   * Jun 13 Nigel Leino     ( 159) Benefits of Agile user stories
  23   * Jun 18 Risto Helles    ( 140) Agile Estimating and Planning Training
  24   * Jun 24 Velling Sanio   ( 162) PMP certification course within 2 days
  25     Jun 25 Zoran Valtanen  ( 102) Agile Estimating and Planning in 1day Work-shop
  26   * Jun 27 Timo Pulkkinen  ( 179) PRINCE2 foundation & practitioner Course
  27   * Jul 02 Marko Renaud    ( 182) Certified Business Analysis Professional – Preparation training
  28     Jul 07 Zoran Valtanen  ( 101) Introduction to Agile Estimating and Planning Workshop
  29   * Jul 07 Timo Sutinen    ( 159) Agile & Scrum training
  30   * Aug 20 Heidi Rautio    ( 207) Hadoop (2.0) Development & BI Training