Penton Media, a marketing firm with a past history of sending opt-out bulk email (spam), is emailing bulk advertisements to the contact email address for my personal blog (tw86034@ergosphere.net). The ESP is the Oracle Marketing Cloud, which is the combination of former ESPs Eloqua and Responsys, both of which Oracle now owns.
ESP mail seen in spamtraps January 2015
We’ve come full circle; this is the first post of the new year. Thanks to all who are keeping up with the series. Hope to see you in Frisco in two weeks.
The percentage of ESP sent mail vs all mail seen in the spamtraps is 1.4% this month.
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ESP mail seen in spamtraps December 2015
The percentage of ESP sent mail vs all mail seen in the spamtraps is 1.3% this month.
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ESP mail seen in spamtraps November 2015
The percentage of ESP sent mail vs all mail seen in the spamtraps is 0.9% this month. There has been quite a lot of botnet activity.
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ESP mail seen in spamtraps October 2015
The percentage of ESP sent mail vs all mail seen in the spamtraps is 1.3% this month.
Spamming once again, this time through the anonymous Huipputarjous.biz who have managed to obtain services from Elastic Email. Going steadily towards the lowest end of bottom feeding spam service providers. (This is not aimed at Elastic; rather Huipputarjous.biz and all of the other anonymous “all the businesses in the YTJ must have participated in an online competition that nobody has heard of and only started last week” spammers.)
Spamming from 162.254.227.0/25.
During August 2015, and possibly earlier, the Swedish provider of lightweight card payment solutions, iZettle, has enlisted the services of Roy Knows Best, also known as Salesleads Scandinavia AB, for their advertising.
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Some time ago, a new spam list vendor came to our sights. They are suomitotal.com (anonymized domain registration) and they are mailing out of Elastic Email, selling B2B lists for spamming, predictably by spamming.
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A unidentifiable investment solicitation spammer using an anonymous free GMail address (germany.bestinvest@gmail.com) just emailed to a purchased or email appended list. The list includes two role accounts originally scraped from a website and Whois. I registered the domain for those accounts in the 1990s, and am the only registered owner that domain has ever had. Neither spammed email address *ever* sent email to anybody; they only received email. The ESP was YourMailingListProvider.
