TCPS Information

TCPS is a major email spammer. Best known for their "Are you being investigated?" spam.

UUNet claims to have received over 20,000 complaints about TCPS.

TCPS has annoyed enough people that now they're the ones being investigated. The information that follows is a summary of information culled from netnews postings. For more information, see the TCPS FAQ written by Mark Miller.

Aliases and Contact Points:

Telephone Check Payment System
126 13th St
Brooklyn, NY 11215

incorporated: 03/29/1994, New York
Service of Process Address:
HERBERT MONTE LEVY
60 EAST 42ND STREET, SUITE 4210
NEW YORK, NY, 10165
212-370-4950, fax 212-370-7864
Financial Planning Associates
126 13th St
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Ronald A. Stewart
718-768-6802, 718-768-6803
incorporated: 05/18/1983, New York
Service of Process Address:
BURNS SUMMIT ROVINS & FELDESMAN
RALPH M. ENGEL, ESQ.
445 PARK AVE.
NEW YORK, NY, 10022
EngelEsq@Aol.com
REngel@Rosenreade.com

Ralph Engel, attorney
757 3rd Avenue,
212-303-9000.
Rodney The Printer
Idea Publishing Co
fpany@mail.idt.net
1920 Ditmas Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11226-6712.
[718] 287-3800, [718] 462-5920

Connectivity:

Currently spamming from UUNet dialups. UUnet was forced to file a lawsuit on 5 Oct 1998 to put a stop to it.

Complaints:

The NY state Attorney General's office at http://www.oag.state.ny.us/surveys/internet.html maintains a file on TCPS.