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The “exclusive” seller of interior design stuff, Fab.com has a bit of a spam problem. Over the span of a month, an old and no longer used (but still “active”) address of mine has received not one, but six unsolicited bulk (and commercial) emails from the upscale interior design retailer.

Interestingly enough, in the body of the spam, Fab.com admits that the mail is an “invitation” to sign up to their site, supposedly initiated by one of their existing customers (or perhaps I should say “alleged” customers.) Ironically, that doesn’t stop them from claiming opt-in in the footer.

As a side note, the privacy implications of them sending me the email address of one of their supposed customers are rather troubling.

In any event, for a supposedly “exclusive” seller, they sure seem to be desperate to get signups, and willing to resort to UBE (spam) out of that desperation.

Most recent spam mail from fab.com came on October 30th and like those preceding it, was sent via ESP Sailthru.com.

Sending IP: 69.28.218.148

Spam headers:

Return-Path: <delivery@mx.sailthru.com>
Received: from mx-69-28-218-148.sailthru.com (mx-69-28-218-148.sailthru.com [69.28.218.148])
	by __________ (__________) with ESMTP id __________
	for <__________>; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:__:__ GMT
Received: from mx-fab-d.sailthru.com (mx-fab-d.sailthru.com [64.34.47.157])
	by mx-69-28-218-148.sailthru.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id __________
	for <__________>; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:__:__ -0400 (EDT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/simple; t=__________;
	s=Sailthru; d=fab.com;
	h=Date:From:Reply-To:To:Message-ID:Subject:MIME-Version:Content-Type:List-ID:List-Unsubscribe;
	bh=__________=;
	b=__________=
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:__:__ +0000 (UTC)
From: "Fab.com" <info@fab.com>
Reply-To: reminder@fab.com
To: __________
Message-ID: <__________@sailthru.com>
Subject: Reminder about your invitation from __________@gmail.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
	boundary="----=_Part___________"
Precedence: bulk
X-TM-ID: __________
X-Info: Message sent by sailthru.com customer fab
X-Info: We do not permit unsolicited commercial email
X-Info: Please report abuse by forwarding complete headers to
X-Info: abuse@sailthru.com
X-Mailer: sailthru.com
X-IADB-IP: 64.34.47.157
X-IADB-IP-REVERSE: 157.47.34.64
X-IADB-URL: http://www.isipp.com/iadb.php
X-Unsubscribe-Web: http://mailer.fab.com/oc/__________/__________
List-ID: <cm.___.__________.sailthru.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:unsubscribe____@mx.sailthru.com>, <http://mailer.fab.com/oc/__________/__________>
X-rpcampaign: __________

Human readable spam email

Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:__:__ +0000 (UTC)
From: “Fab.com” <info@fab.com>
Reply-To: reminder@fab.com
To: _____________
Subject: Reminder about your invitation from __________@gmail.com

If you are unable to see this message, click here to view To ensure delivery to your inbox, please add info@fab.com to your address book.
Fab.com – daily design for everyone
REMINDER This pending invitation is awaiting your response: From _______@gmail.com
Great News!_________

Here’s your exclusive invite from ________@gmail.com to register for the new Fab.com Fab.com provides daily design inspirations and sales from the world’s leading designers and manufacturers at prices up to 70% off retail.
New sales launch daily at 11 am Eastern / 8 am Pacific

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