MainSleaze

Either St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, or San Antonio printer Accu-Print, is sending bulk email advertisements to a spamtrap of mine that has never heard from either of them before. The From header say’s that the sender is St. Mary’s, while the message body states that the message was sent by Accu-Print. The spamtrap in question, if it ever existed at all, was closed in 2005. The ESP is ExactTarget.

I am not an attorney, but I believe that CAN-SPAM requires that email advertisements accurately identify the sender. In this case, I can’t tell who was responsible for this mailing. It is odd to see a mailing that appears to violate the CAN-SPAM law coming from a reputable ESP like ExactTarget. I suspect that whoever sent this did not show it to ExactTarget before they sent it.

Sending IP: 207.67.38.20

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from xtinmta01-20.exacttarget.com (xtinmta01-20.exacttarget.com [207.67.38.20])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
Received: by xtinmta01-20.exacttarget.com (PowerMTA(TM) v3.5r15) id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:xx:xx -0600 
        (envelope-from <bounce-<xxx>@bounce.exacttarget.com>)
From: "St. Mary's University Office of Undergraduate Admission" <uadm@stmarytx.edu>
To: <xxx>
Subject: Play the Luck of the Irish Game - Happy St. Patty's Day
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:xx:xx -0600
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:leave-<xxx>@leave.exacttarget.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
x-job: <xxx>
Message-ID: <xxx>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="<xxx>"

Readable Email:

From: St. Mary’s University Office of Undergraduate Admission <uadm@stmarytx.edu
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Play the Luck of the Irish Game – Happy St. Patty’s Day

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This email was sent by:

Accu-Print
3503 CrossPoint
San Antonio, TX 78217 USA

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