MainSleaze

This is so spammy it can hardly qualify as mainsleaze. But it keeps being sent from the same IP address and it openly mentions the domain names of the sender and/or beneficiary (your-marketing-solution.com, directmarketingco.com) in both the headers and the message body, so at least it isn’t botspam.

This spam advertises a service that my untrained eye can only describe as spam-for-hire, since they openly offer to send the customer’s ad to their own list. Both the message and the website mention iAnnex.net as the mothership. Similar spams have been sent from the same IP address to the same email address on Oct 3, 2011 and Oct 22, 2011, and to another address that must be epended on Oct 4, 2011 and Oct 23, 2011 (how do I know it was epended? The target person’s name contains a non-ASCII character, his email address could never have that character in it because it’s non-ASCII, and merely masking out the 8th bit, which is what appears to have happened, results in a character quite not the one that ought to have replaced the accented version, and hence a nonexistent email address).

I appear to have mentioned this on an anti-spam mailing list in October, just before this blog opened for business. I have also mentioned it to ServerBeach, who have turned a deaf ear.

Spamming IP: 66.135.42.9 (ServerBeach)

Spam headers:

From info@your-marketing-solution.com  Sun Jan  8 13:49:25 2012
Return-Path: <info@your-marketing-solution.com>
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Thread-Topic: Direct Marketing - New marketing solution
From: <info@your-marketing-solution.com>
To: <x@atro.fi>
Subject: Direct Marketing - New marketing solution
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 00:11:40 -0800
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Human-readable spam content:

Hello,

I am contacting you with information on the newly created company –
Direct Marketing (www.directmarketingco.com) sister company of iAnnex
and Sendeflyers that have been a leading USA marketing companies for
the last 6 years. Direct Marketing is the extension of iAnnex for
European markets (all countries now included).
We have the largest business email database as well as other lists
thrroughout the two continents (Businesses, Consumers, Doctors, Real
Estate Agents to name a few).

Here is some general information on the services we offer:

Direct Marketing has revolutionized eMarketing for businesses.  Our
packages start at just 300 Euros and can produce phenomenal results for
such a nominal fee.  Use of our email list is INCLUDED. Direct
Marketing is ready to deliver your product or service to hundreds of
thousands or millions of prospective customers TODAY. You can see all
the lists we have on our web site – www.directmarketingco.com or
contact us for more information – info@directmarketingco.com.
The delivery rate you can expect is around 70% for USA and 90% for
Europe

The emails come in the body of the email

Basic eBlast Package 300
Includes eBlast for up to 100,000 emails (use of our list is included).
Simply provide us with your flyer

Pro eBlast Package 1000
Includes eBlast for up to 400,000 emails (use of our list is included)
Includes Custom eFlyer Design for FREE (150 Value)

Elite eBlast Package 3000
Includes eBlast for up to 2,000,000 emails (use of our list is
included) Includes Custom eFlyer Design for FREE (150 Value)

Custom Graphic Design for any package is only an additional 150.00

eBlast Steps:

1     Select Your Area for Delivery
2     We Design Your Custom eFlyer or Upload Your eFlyer
3     We Deliver it to your selected area

No contracts are required.

We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Company Checks, Money
Orders as well as bank transfers.

We are 100% SPAM compliant and a US based company with corporate
headquarters in Miami Beach, Florida, with offices in Zagreb, Croatia
and UK

Each eBlast Package acts like an account with the number of emails. All
the emails do not have to be used at once. You have a month to use
them. Also, you may run multiple campaigns to the same area.

eFlyer design does not have to be done by us. If you have a graphic
designer, you can just forward us the eFlyer and we will upload it for
free.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to contact us at
info@directmarketingco.com

Thank You for your interest,

Direct Marketing

USA – +1 786 276 9009

UK – +44 (0)203 318 5617

Croatia – +385 99 784 0698

<mailto:info@directmarketingco.com> www.directmarketingco.com |
info@directmarketingco.com

<http://www.directmarketingco.com>

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