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Topps, the famed chewing gum and baseball card purveyors whom I blogged about for spamming two weeks ago, spammed again on Thursday of last week. This is despite the original blog and an (unrelated, of course) Spamhaus SBL listing for the first spam. Topps is mailing from its own IPs; no ESP is involved. That might explain the sheer stupidity of continuing to send bulk email to lists that they *know* contain a bunch of spamtraps, including apparently some that belong to Spamhaus.

If there is any intelligent life remaining at Topps and they happen to be reading this blog: Guys, when you spam from an SBL-listed IP, your email is mostly rejected or dumped into the bitbucket. (Bitbucket is the term for the electronic trashcan.) The people on your list are very unlikely to have received and seen your email. When you’ve managed to get yourself into the SBL or another major anti-spam blacklist, the first thing to do is to STOP SENDING EMAIL TO THAT LIST. Got it?

Sending IP: 68.170.132.142

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from Mail02.int.etopps.com (mail02.etopps.com [68.170.132.142])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
Received: from NALIAPP01.toppscolo.com ([192.168.<xxx>.<xxx>])
        by Mail02.int.etopps.com (8.13.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:xx:xx -0400
Received: from mail pickup service by NALIAPP01.toppscolo.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
         Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:xx:xx -0400
Thread-Topic: ShopTopps.com New Products!
thread-index: <xxx>==
From: <announcements@etopps.com>
To: <xxx>
Subject: ShopTopps.com New Products!
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:xx:xx -0400
Message-ID: <<xxx>@toppscolo.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="----=_NextPart_<xxx>"
X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Importance: normal
Priority: normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.<xxx>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: <xxx>

Readable Email:

From: <announcements@etopps.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: ShopTopps.com New Products!

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