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Vistaprint, which should need no introduction to anybody who hasn’t been hiding in the woods for the past decade and has email, just sent spam to a spamtrap that cannot have been live after 2006. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.

The spam Subject, “Everything must go …”, suggests that the spam is advertising a going-out-of-business sale for a company that has physical stock. Although I am not able to determine from the email what Vistaprint intended with this subject, the company offers printing services, not physical objects for sale. As much as many of us would love to see Vistaprint disappear from our mailboxes permanently, I don’t think that the company is in fact going out of business. I do think that, despite repeated promises to quit spamming, they’re not about to quit stuffing mailboxes full of unasked for and unwanted bulk email. :/

Sending IP: 64.37.95.115

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from mta143.e.vistaprint.com (mta143.e.vistaprint.com [64.37.95.115])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:xx:xx -0000 (UT)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:xx:xx -0000
Message-ID: <<xxx>@mta143.e.vistaprint.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rm-<xxx>@e.vistaprint.com>
From: "Vistaprint" <vistaprint@e.vistaprint.com>
To: <xxx>
Subject: Everything must go ...
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: "Vistaprint" <support-<xxx>@e.vistaprint.com>
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="<xxx>"

Readable Email:

From: Vistaprint <vistaprint@e.vistaprint.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Everything must go …
Reply-To: Vistaprint <support-<xxx>@e.vistaprint.com>

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