McAfee: Urging a Spamtrap to “Embrace Mobile Technology”
Antivirus company McAfee just sent a bulk email advertisement to a long-dead email address inviting the owner of that address to “embrace mobile technology”. This email address has not previously received email from McAfee; I wonder why it is now? The ESP is Eloqua.
Sending IP: 66.48.80.112
Spam Sample:
Actual Headers:
Received: from connect.mcafee.com (connect.mcafee.com [66.48.80.112]) by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx> for <xxx>; Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:xx:xx -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <xxx> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "McAfee" <mcafee@connect.mcafee.com> To: <xxx> Reply-To: "McAfee" <noreply@mcafee.com> Date: 8 Mar 2012 12:xx:xx -0500 Subject: Embrace Mobile Technology with Confidence. Read the guide. Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=<xxx>
Readable Email:
From: McAfee <mcafee@connect.mcafee.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Embrace Mobile Technology with Confidence. Read the guide.
Reply-To: McAfee <noreply@mcafee.com>
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SECURITY CONNECTED: Protect mobile devices and data strategically
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http://enterprise.mcafee.com/content/<xxx>-Security-Connected-Nurture?<xxx>
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