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Myrtle Beach Golf Courses, a specialist travel organization offering golf vacations, is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2009. This email address first started to receive bulk email from this sender in late 2011; it had not previously received email from this sender. Myrtle Beach Golf Courses is either mailing a very old list after allowing it to remain uncontacted for years, or Myrtle Beach Golf Courses or their marketing firm Fuel Interactive purchased a list. The sending ESP is ExactTarget.

The actual sender appears to be a marketing company named Fuel Interactive, which owns the domains that appear in the From header and message body URLs of this spam — simplesending.com and simplesending.net. It is a bit unusual to see a separate marketing company appearing under their own name and using their own domains in email sent for a customer, but it happens. It is possible that the marketing company obtained a list without the customer’s knowledge, but in either case the customer is ultimately responsible for sending bulk email to an email address that had not asked to receive it.

Sending IP: 66.231.85.170

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Subject: Myrtle Beach Golf (ad): Play On The Prime Time Signature Courses For Just $47!
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From: Myrtle Beach Golf Holiday <golfholiday@enews.simplesending.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Myrtle Beach Golf (ad): Play On The Prime Time Signature Courses For Just $47!

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Holes No. 14 and 18 (pictured) atRiver Club in Pawleys Island have been featured in The Sun News’ bookThe 100 Greatest Holes Along the Grand Strand.

And the high accolades for this Tom Jackson design continue to pour in – from Golf Digest, which has awarded River Club 4.5 stars each year since 2006 in its “Places to Play” rankings; and reviewers at the
http://click.enews.simplesending.net/?<xxx> Myrtle Beach Golf Insider, who have made it their 4th most reviewed course and awarded it an outstanding overall rating of 8.3 out of 10.

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