May
17

Pimsleur: Advertising Language Training via “The Political Insider”? WTF?

Today’s spam from The Political Insider, a newsletter that had previously appeared to be about conservative U.S. political issues and about which I blogged once already, consists solely of a non-political advertisement for the Pimsleur System, a well-known language education program in the U.S. As before, the email was sent by ESP BlueHornet, a division of Digital River. As before, URLs in the message body point to a marketing firm, Paramount Communication Group.

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May
12

The Political Insider: Marketing Politics to a Spamtrap

The Political Insider, a newsletter about conservative U.S. political issues which appears to be produced by a marketing firm in Alexandria, Virginia, recently started appearing in my spamtrap. It is sent to an email address that was closed in 2004. The email nonetheless indicates that the email address was added to the system on May 7, 2012. The email was sent by ESP BlueHornet, a division of Digital River. URLs in the message body point to a marketing firm, Paramount Communication Group.

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