American Family: Welcoming a Spamtrap to its List :/
Sweepstakes and deals program American Family today sent a welcome message to a spamtrap that has been closed for over ten years, notifying it that it had been added to their list. Moreover, when this spamtrap was live, it belonged to a European user who presumably would not qualify for the deals that this site offers. The ESP is Acxiom Digital.
This is why the “welcome message” recommended by so many marketing “experts” on bulk email doesn’t cut it unless it’s preceded by a confirmation message. I wonder for how long American Family will be sending offers to this spamtrap?
Sending IP: 209.11.164.120
Spam Sample:
Actual Headers:
Received: from client-1-120.delivery.net (client-1-120.delivery.net [209.11.164.120])
by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
for <xxx>; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:xx:xx -0000 (CDT)
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
Received: from [209.11.xx.xx] ([209.11.xx.xx:xx] helo=<xxx>)
by <xxx> (envelope-from <American_Family@email.americanfamily.com>)
(ecelerity 3.3.2.44647 r(44647)) with ESMTP
id <xxx>; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:xx:xx -0700
Received: from [64.210.xx.xx] ([64.210.xx.xx:xx] helo=<xxx>)
by <xxx> (envelope-from <American_Family@americanfamily.com>)
(ecelerity 2.2.2.40 r()) with ESMTP
id <xxx>; Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:xx:xx -0700
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 16:xx:xx -0400 (EDT)
From: American Family <American_Family@email.americanfamily.com>
Reply-to: American_Family@email.americanfamily.com
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <xxx>
Subject: <xxx>, Welcome to American Family!
Errors-to: American_Family@americanfamily.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="<xxx>"
X-eid: <xxx>
X-pid: <xxx>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:American_Family@email.americanfamily.com?subject=unsubscribe%20<xxx>>
X-rctm: 19 Aug 2012 13:xx:xx
Readable Email:
From: American Family <American_Family@email.americanfamily.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: <xxx>, Welcome to American Family!
Reply-to: American_Family@email.americanfamily.com
Welcome Customer!
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