GenScript: spamming scientists

GenScript, a leading biology CRO focusing exclusively on early drug discovery and development services is spamming scientists. The spamming domain molecular-biology.net is owned by “Company”, with a contact email address on Comcast’s public service, and redirects to GenScript’s own site if accessed through HTTP.

Spamming IP: 12.173.92.181 (network registered on 2011-09-28 to MTU AERO ENGINE COMPONENTS INC)

Spamming domain: molecular-biology.net (registered in Dec 2006 to “Company”, of  21 Hollis Rd., East Brunswick, New Jersey 08816, which is the same address as in genscript.com’s registration)

Spam headers:

Return-Path: <service007@molecular-biology.net>
Received: from molecular-biology.net (molecular-biology.net [12.173.92.181])
 by x (8.14.4/8.14.4) with SMTP id x
 for <x>; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:xx:xx +0200
Received: (qmail 14327 invoked by uid 5002); 28 Feb 2012 22:xx:xx -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO scm-pro-web-application) (192.168.1.111)
by molecular-biology.net with SMTP; 28 Feb 2012 22:xx:xx -0000
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:xx:xx -0500 (EST)
From: GenScript <service007@molecular-biology.net>
To: x
Message-ID: <x.x.JavaMail.jboss@scm-pro-web-application>
Subject: Straight Ways to Solve Your Protein Puzzles
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
 boundary="----=_Part_x_x.x"

Human-readable spam contents: None, no plaintext part at all. The HTML is so laden with web bugs that I can’t be bothered to include it lest I accidentally leave something in.

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