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Bloomingdale’s, a high-end New York-based department store, started sending email advertisements about a week ago to an email address that closed in 2007. Unless Bloomingdale’s was foolish enough to resurrect a list that has not been contacted in over four years, they must have purchased a list or hired an e-append provider. Since the email address is matched with a plausible but incorrect name, my money is on the second option. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.

Sending IP: 63.236.76.145

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from mta821.e.bloomingdales.com (mta821.e.bloomingdales.com [63.236.76.145])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Mon,  2 Jul 2012 13:xx:xx -0000 (UT)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:xx:xx -0000
Message-ID: <<xxx>@mta821.e.bloomingdales.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rm-<xxx>@e.bloomingdales.com>
From: "Bloomingdale's" <Bloomingdales@e.bloomingdales.com>
To: <xxx>
Subject: kate spade new york + Save 25-65%
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: "Bloomingdale's" <support-<xxx>@e.bloomingdales.com>
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=<xxx>"

Readable Email:

From: Bloomingdale’s <Bloomingdales@e.bloomingdales.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: kate spade new york + Save 25-65%
Reply-To: Bloomingdale’s <support-<xxx>@e.bloomingdales.com>

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Bloomingdale’s

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ONLINE & IN STORE- NOW THROUGH WEDNESDAY, JULY 4
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