Computing and technical books publisher O’Reilly Media, an old favorite of mine from whom I recently purchased several books directly, just sent a bulk email advertisement to the tagged email address that I provided them during the purchase. This email address has never been used except for that purpose. The ESP is iPost, a company that I had not heard of previously.
Seattle-based department store Nordstrom is sending email advertisements to a recently re-enabled email address that closed in 2005. This spamtrap almost certainly never existed at all; the domain never had more than three or four live email addresses. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.
Brooks Brothers, the iconic U.S.-based high-end men’s clothing store, is sending bulk email advertisements to a recently-reenabled email address that, if it ever belonged to a real person, closed in 2004. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Finnish spam with anonymized domain registrations, collaborators in India, spamming IP and hosting in Romania, target addresses outdated and erroneous personal ones from the Finnish Business Information System, legally required items on sender identification, address list source missing… Gee, I wonder who it is whose spam matches these characteristics? We’ll know soon enough if Directi agrees to de-obfuscate email-offer.org, I guess.
Mediakomppania (see biz reg), a Finnish private person carrying on trade, is doing their utmost to discredit their ISP, Hurja Solutions Oy. Hurja is aware of this and chooses to ignore the matter. By the spammer’s own admission, he is using purchased lists from Suomen Markkinointirekisteri Oy and Digitoimisto Haikuu.
More spam just in from Regus Finland Oy despite my efforts to the contrary in March 2012, November 2011, October 2011, May 2011 and May 2010. Again, I called the local office, asking if I could speak to Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse as they are clearly in charge of list management as no competent human could possibly make this kind of error so many times in a row. After a round of WTFs, the helpful assistant took down the details and said I could also write to helsinki.lunahouse@regus.com about it (just like the previous one did), which I did, again, cc’ing the Data Protection Ombudsman, who will, in a few months, respond that since the marketing efforts are sent by the Luxembourg company, they have no standing in the matter. I also wrote to Gabriel to mention this, but got a response from other people in the biz.
There really is nothing special to report. It’s Vistaprint spam as usual. The ESP has been informed after Vistaprint spammed my business’ web page address with this in the end of June, to zero effect. I really don’t know of a reason to accept any more mail from this block, except to collect spam evidence, of course.
This one needs no introduction, all of the parties are familiar from other posts on this site.
Travel portal Expedia just sent a bulk email to an email address that, if it ever belonged to a real person, closed in 2005. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Vistaprint, which should need no introduction to anybody who hasn’t been hiding in the woods for the past decade and has email, just sent spam to a spamtrap that cannot have been live after 2006. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.