MainSleaze

Yesterday petition website Change.org emailed updates or confirmations to almost four dozen of my spamtraps, every single one of them a likely typo of a real email address that probably did sign up for this email. Change.org has been emailing many of these email addresses for months without once noticing that nobody is responding to their email. The ESP is Sendgrid.

If Change.org is emailing my typotraps in this quantity, I wonder how many real email addresses they are bombarding that never signed a petition or asked for their email. A bunch, is my guess.

Sending IPs: 167.89.14.239 [And others]

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from o10.email.change.org (o10.email.change.org [167.89.14.239])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:##:## +0000 (UTC)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Received: by filter-<xxx>.sjc1.sendgrid.net with SMTP id filter-<xxx>
        2015-01-15 13:##:##.<xxx> +0000 UTC
Received: from change.org (unknown [166.78.37.145])
        by ismtpd-<xxx> (SG) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <sendgrid-ignored@change.org>; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:##:## +0000 (UTC)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:##:## +0000
From: "Change.org" <mail@change.org>
Reply-to: "Change.org" <mail@change.org>
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <<xxx>-resque1.change.org.com.mail>
Subject: <xxx>, you won big
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="--==_mimepart_<xxx>";
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-rpcampaign: ChangeAA218611
List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.change.org/unsubscribe>
X-SG-EID: <xxx>
X-SG-ID: <xxx>

Readable Email:

From: Change.org <mail@change.org>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: <xxx>, you won big [NOTE: And many other Subjects]

2014 was an incredible year for change — and a lot of it happened because people like you took action on Change.org.

In fact, more than 5,000 petitions became victories in 2014 — nearly one per hour for the entire year.

Those victories included deeply personal stories, like a father in India who won his petition to get medical care for his dying 12-year-old son and big, systemic victories that will impact millions of people, like a teenager from Mississippi who convinced Coca-Cola and Pepsi to remove a potentially harmful chemical from all of their beverages.

Click here to watch a video of some of the biggest wins of 2014 — wins that you made possible.

http://chn.ge/<xxx>

If you want to help drive even more victories in 2015, you can become a Change.org Sustainer — click here to learn more.

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This email was sent by Change.org to <xxx>.

Edit your email preferences: http://www.change.org/account_settings/edit_<xxx>
Unsubscribe from these emails: http://www.change.org/unsubscribe?<xxx>

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