Jun
02

Realty One Group: Talking about Facebook Timelines to a Spamtrap

Realty One Group, which describes itself as “Nevada’s #1 Full Service Residential Real Estate Brokerage” (wheew!), a few months ago began sending bulk email newsletters to an email address that closed in 2008. Today’s newsletter is for… *Facebook* users… who struggle with the new Timeline feature. (Huh?) This spamtrap receives quite a bit of real-estate-related spam, so I think that it once belonged to a real estate agent who moved on after the market collapsed. The ESP is Streamsend.

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Jun
01

Push Marketing: Blatantly disregarding opt-out

Markkinointitoimisto Push! Oy (a/k/a Push! Marketing Management Ltd, see also biz reg) are spamming, and are doing so illegally in several ways, including but perhaps not limited to violating a previously expressed opt-out.

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Jun
01

Common Good: Emailing an E-Pended Spamtrap

Common Good, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that is promoting reforms to legal and governmental processes, just sent email for the first time to a spamtrap that was closed in 2004. The email refers to the owner of that spamtrap address by a plausible but incorrect name, which suggests an e-pended email address. The ESP is Blue State Digital.

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May
29

KaBloom.com: Selling Flowers to a Seven-Year-Old Spamtrap

KaBloom.com, an online florist, has for many months been sending bulk email advertisements to a spamtrap that closed in 2006. (I first noticed these spams in July 2011.) The ESP is Vertical Response.

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May
29

Tractor Supply Company: Selling Farm Supplies to a Spamtrap

Tractor Supply Company, a Tennessee-based company that sells farming supplies both online and in stores, just sent an advertisement email for the first time to an email address that, if it ever existed, was closed in 2004. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.

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May
26

Spamming Householders With “Property Tax Relief” Messages

Online Property Tax Appeal, a company that offers American householders assistance in persuading their local governments to reduce their property taxes, is hitting a spamtrap and a live employee address at a firm in the UK. (My company, as a matter of fact.) It scarcely seems needful to state that neither the spamtrap nor the UK resident employee asked to receive this email. The ESP is Real Magnet.

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May
24

Eksenbilgisayar: A Turkish Computing and Electronics Store Spams an American… Spamtrap?

Eksenbilgisayar, an online computing equipment and electronics store based in Istanbul, Turkey, a few weeks ago started to spam an email address that, if it ever existed, was closed in 2002. Most of the content of the email is in remotely-hosted images. The ESP is MadMimi.

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May
23

Cruise Companies of the World Want My Mum!

It appears that the list that Celebrity Cruises is using has itself gone on a ramble. For the past few months my mother’s email address has been inundated with email advertisements for cruises from a number of firms. The most recent is an organization in Scottsdale, Arizona (go figure!) that calls itself Our Vacation Center. The ESP is ExactTarget.

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May
22

Compensation Management Resources

Do you know who Compensation Management Resources is? I do not. Nonetheless, they’re sending mail to an address at a domain that has had no valid users since at least early 2007 (but probably much longer). The sender’s methodology seems legitimate — they’re using a legitimate list management software package called Lyris. But the address they’re sending to sure feels like evidence of spam to me.

The ESP or list owner seems to be Business 21 Publishing, based in Pennsylvania in the USA. Their Lyris server appears to be hosted by an ISP called NetAtlantic.

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May
20

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee: Emailing Spamtraps

The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), an organization that supports the campaigns of Democratic candidates for state legislatures, is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2008. The ESP is Salsalabs, the ESP side of liberal U.S. political activist group Wired for Change.

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