US Data Corporation Deceptive Email List & Poor Customer Service Omaha, Nebraska

Your description of your e-mail "campaign" described about 1/2 of the scams through e-mail.  Credit Card Processing and offers of high value($500) Gift cards are generally tell-tale signs of scams.  Hopefully yours is not, but just having those in your e-mail probably set off several "red-flags".

If you get 1 or 2 hits out of 100,000 of these SPAM e-mail campains you are lucky, if you get 1 or 2 calls out of 1,000,000 you are very lucky.  Why?  Because just about every major ISP has several tools that automatically flter out and block e-mails they determine to be SPAM.  Then even if it gets through the ISP's filters, just about every mail client has SPAM filters that would block out the rest. 

Now, if your son had better luck perhaps you should pay him the $2,500.  But before you do you need to read your ISP's Terms of Service(ToS).  You may be surprised to find out that if you send even ONE unsolicted e-mail your account could be subject to termination.  So all it takes is 1 of those 900 people to complain to your ISP and you may no longer have an Internet Connection.  If no one complained, consider yourself very lucky.

The reason that it probably went though your "personal" e-mail is because you "passed" the most basic of filters, the "Blacklist test".  This is one of many real-time databases that ISP's and mail providers can check.  If an e-mail comes from an IP address that is on one of these lists they automatically reject it, SPAM or not.  So if you continue to SPAM people you can expect that you may end up on one of these lists.  Then you may only not be able to send these SPAM's but any e-mail from your personal account.  That is of course if your ISP doesn't cut you off first.