Cosmetic products for the spamtrap: Estee Lauder
I have no way to identify why any addresses would be on Estee Lauder’s list, but at the very least, it is clear that they are paying zero attention to bounces. Addresses that have spent a decade dead just shouldn’t be on anybody’s mailing list any more.
The ESP is CheetahMail, who, according to a rDNS lookup of the surrounding /24, handle bulk email for entities such as VistaPrint. The words “lossless compression” did briefly cross my mind.
Spamming IP:
136.43.7.8.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR mta933.e.esteelauder.com. 137.43.7.8.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR mta934.e.esteelauder.com. 138.43.7.8.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR mta935.e.esteelauder.com. 139.43.7.8.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR mta936.e.esteelauder.com.
Spam headers, redacted:
From bo-x@b.e.clinique.com Sun Jan 20 16:mm:ss 2013 Return-Path: <bo-x@b.e.clinique.com> Received: from mta93X.e.esteelauder.com (mta93X.e.esteelauder.com [8.7.43.13X]) by x (Postfix) with ESMTP id x for <x>; Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:mm:ss +0200 (EET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=e.clinique.com; s=x; t=x; x=x; bh=x; h=From:Reply-To; b=x DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=200505; d=e.clinique.com; b=x; h=Date:Message-ID:List-Unsubscribe:From:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Reply-To:Content-type; Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:mm:ss -0000 Message-ID: <x.x.x@mta93X.e.clinique.com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rm-0x@e.clinique.com> From: "Clinique Online" <clinique@e.clinique.com> To: x Subject: In-store event: FREE de-aging serum MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: "Clinique Online" <support-x@e.clinique.com> Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=x" Content-Length: 10197 Lines: 246
Human-readable spam contents:
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I wish I could just drop the outbounds for many ESPs into my router deny tables. Unfortunately some of what Cheetahmail and other big ESPs send is transactional email. Customers notice when they don’t receive receipts and the like, although few of them seriously care about the occasional blocked marketing email.
Human shields. They’re not just for Soddam Insane. :/