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AppyMail, a marketer of mobile apps, recently began to send its newsletter to an email address that was closed years before mobile apps or the mobile web existed. I’m not sure why, but the email address is not a likely candidate for a typo. The ESP is PulsePoint.

Sending IP: 96.46.137.114

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from mail2.confirm.appymail.net (mail2.confirm.appymail.net [96.46.137.114])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:xx:xx
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Received: by mail2.confirm.appymail.net id <xxx> 
        for <xxx>; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:xx:xx 
        (envelope-from <bounce-<xxx>@confirm.appymail.net>)
From: AppyMail <AppyMail@confirm.appymail.net>
Reply-To: AppyMail <<xxx>@confirm.appymail.net>
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <<xxx>.JavaMail.root@confirm.appymail.net>
Subject: New zoo game comes to Android
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 <xxx>

Readable Email:

From: AppyMail <AppyMail@confirm.appymail.net>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: New zoo game comes to Android
Reply-To: AppyMail <<xxx>@confirm.appymail.net>

Build and grow a virtual zoo on your Android phone. Tap Zoo is the most popular zoo game on the iPhone and it’s now available on Android. The games by Pocket Gems have been downloaded over 40 million times, see what millions of smartphone owners have already discovered! Download here on the Android Market.

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