Dec
10

Promohouse Ltd, Seychelles: Spamming

This is a totally boring spammer, but it’s hitting Finnish “B2B” addresses obtained from the Business Information System, and the messages sent to Finnish spamtraps are in unusually credible Finnish for a foreign spammer.  It is advertising translation services, booking assistance for hotels &c, and the provision of online shops, among other things.

It identifies itself as Promohouse Ltd. 307 Victoria House, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles. This text is in all spams and could be used as content-based filter fodder if somebody was so inclined.  Personally, I view content-based spam filters as a waste of CPU cycles and would rather see this operation bumped off the edge of the Internet…

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Dec
10

Rustholli Remontit: Offering renovation projects to spamtraps

Rustholli Remontit Oy (www, biz reg) is spamming to offer renovation projects.  Rustholli Remontit Oy continues the business of the now-bankrupt RuRe Oy (ex Rustholli Remontit Oy) (old biz reg, bankrupt estate biz reg).  The ESP is scion.fi, Mansoft tietotekniikka Oy, who don’t see it appropriate to publish an Acceptable Use Policy at all.  Rustholli have been spamming through Scion.fi at least since March 2012.

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Dec
10

Fonecta attempts to bring Marketo into disrepute with themselves

Since SBL142215 and SBL166744 are making life a little hard for Fonecta at the moment, they figured they’d drag Marketo into their mess.

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Dec
08

International Conference on Materials Science and Manufacturing: Spamming scientists to please join them

I don’t know why today is a special day for Chinese scientific spam. But it seems to be. See previous post. The domains are registered to the same entities. The address source is, as before, “anything in PubMed goes”.  I don’t know whether I should just take their advice and unsubscirble.

(I’m really impressed that the copy-paste from Emacs, which looks all blank on my screen, actually includes the Chinese content. Now there’s probably a way to identify the spamtrap from there…)

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Dec
08

International Journal of Advance in Medical Science: Hey, we’re just starting up and we figured we’d spam you.

A new publication from the Science and Engineering Publishing Company, the International Journal of Advance in Medical Science is about to be started.  They don’t even know who will be its EIC and what the ISSN numbers are (all TBD on their website).  Nonetheless, even though they don’t half exist yet, they figured they’d spread the good news by spamming. There is no indication of address source, but my wild guess is “anybody who’s ever published anything that is available through PubMed goes”, no matter how old it may be.  The sending domain is registered via a Chinese registrar to a Chinese registrant, the spam-advertised domain likewise, the sending IP is in China, but the Science and Engineering Publishing Company claims to reside at 7800 State Road 46 E, PO Box 551, Riley, Indiana, 47871, United States.
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Dec
07

Cabelas: One Year and an ESP Move Later, Hitting the Same Spamtrap

Outdoor goods retailer and outfitter Cabelas, about whom I first blogged in January, just sent a bulk email to the same spamtrap after a hiatus of several months. Previously Cabelas handled its own bulk email. It has now moved its bulk email operation to ESP ExactTarget.

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Dec
06

Investor’s Business Daily: For Spamtraps With IRAs?

U.S. business newsletter Investor’s Business Daily just sent an advertisement to a spamtrap that, as far as I can tell, has never existed at all. (The domain has never as best I know had a deliverable email address.) The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.

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Dec
06

Bipartisan Policy Center Spams CAUCE

Bipartisan Policy Center <events@bipartisanpolicy.org> invited me to their event. Bad idea.

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Dec
06

Brazilian Chevrolet Dealer

Chevrolet – Parceiros <mkt-chevrolet@zimbas.info> wants me to buy a Brazilian Chevrolet and osh b’gosh! This is also from PleskLogin of Glendale California!

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Dec
06

Brazilian Volkswagen Dealer

Volkswagen Consorcio – Parceiros <mkt-ofertas@sglobe01.com> wants me to buy a Brazilian Volkswagen, by way of PleskLogin of Glendale California.

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