S.C. Johnson: Selling Home Cleaning Products to… Homeless Spamtraps?

S.C. Johnson, a U.S.-based household products company known to every small child (and everybody else) in the United States, is sending bulk emails to email addresses that have not been live for many years. These email addresses receive no legitimate email. Until today, they have received no email from S.C. Johnson. So why are these email addresses suddenly getting email from this company? One spamtrap hit might be a typo; several usually means a purchased list. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.

Sending IP: 64.37.95.144

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from mta140.mail-scjohnson.com (mta140.mail-scjohnson.com [64.37.95.144])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:xx:xx -0000
Message-ID: <<xxx>@mta140.mail-scjohnson.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rm-<xxx>@mail-scjohnson.com>
From: "Right@Home(TM)" <RightatHome@mail-scjohnson.com>
To: <xxx>
Subject: Order by 12/15 to get Free Shipping on Cerra Christmas gifts!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: "Right@Home(TM)" <support-<xxx>@mail-scjohnson.com>
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="<xxx>"

Readable Email:

From: Right@Home(TM) <RightatHome@mail-scjohnson.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Order by 12/15 to get Free Shipping on Cerra Christmas gifts!
Reply-To: Right@Home(TM) <support-<xxx>@mail-scjohnson.com>

To ensure you receive future Right@Home(TM) emails, simply add
RightatHome@mail-scjohnson.com to your email address book.
Not sure how? We’ll show you:
http://mail-scjohnson.com/a/<xxx>

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http://mail-scjohnson.com/<xxx>

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