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Acc Consulting Oy, our old friend (www, biz reg (note absence of email address…), responsible people) seems to be hell bent on spamming the living bejesus out of every business email address in Finland.

The good people at their ISP, Elisa Oyj / Saunalahti, are well aware of this, and either unable or completely unwilling to stop them.

Acc Consulting Oy advertise courses on repairing mold damage in buildings to hairdressers, hot work safety to IT consultancies, asbestos removal to healthcare providers… And of course their address source (“their own list”) is full of illegal outdated and erroneous personal data, and there isn’t so much as an attempt to provide the legally required Description of Personal Data File for the list. One has been demanded of them on June 7, 2013; no response received.

In mid-September 2013, Vesa Hämäläinen (sole board member of the Ltd) provided the following insightful response to a spam complaint:

x poistettu(manuualisesti). Ostamme profiloidut tiedot
suomen asiakastiedolta jonne voi osoittaa valitukset markkinointi
tietonnoilla olemisesta.

(“X removed (manuualy). We buy profiled information from Suomen Asiakastieto to whom complaints about being on marke
ting datases should be adresed.”)

Spamming IP: 195.197.172.116, 195.197.172.115, 195.197.172.111 (outgoing MXes for the customers of saunalahti.fi, as before)

Spam headers:

Return-Path: <myynti@accconsulting.fi>
Received: from gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi (gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi
        [195.197.172.111])
        by x (Postfix) with ESMTP id x
        for <x>; Fri,  8 Nov 2013 14:mm:ss +0200 (EET)
Received: from SATC660D11K-PC (a88-115-120-121.elisa-laajakaista.fi
        [88.115.120.121])
        by gw03.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id x
        for <x>; Fri,  8 Nov 2013 14:mm:ss +0200 (EET)
Organization: Acc Consulting Oy
Reply-To: myynti@accconsulting.fi
Message-ID: <x@accconsulting.fi>
From: Koulutusta sinulle <myynti@accconsulting.fi>
To: x
Subject: Marraskuun koulutukset Helsingissä: TYÖTURVALLISUUS (TraFi),
        TIETURVALLISUUS (TraFi), KATTOTULITYÖ, TULITYÖ, ASBESTINPURKU,
        HOMEVAURIOIDEN KORJAUS
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 14:mm:ss +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="----=SPLITOR00A_001_x"