Apr
11
VWR International Oy: Selling …what? to spamtraps and scientists
VWR International Oy (see biz reg), d/b/a Kebo Lab, the Finnish branch of VWR International LLC, is spamming, and doing it on their own.
Apr
11
Homedirectory: Deals! To a scraped role account, no less….
Homedirectory, a Singapore-based web portal offering deals in home supplies and family products that is part of the Streetdirectory family, just sent their April newsletter to the administration role address for the Usenet newsgroup soc.religion.islam. Either Homedirectory or somebody else scraped this address or purchased a list, because this address does not subscribe to receive any bulk email. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.
Apr
07
Fight for the Future: Political spam
Fight for the Future, a non-profit formed in late 2010, is spamming addresses that are very unlikely to have anything to do with U.S. politics anyway and that, if they’re real, stopped existing years before Fight for the Future was formed. The ESP is SendGrid. The realnames seem real enough, the addresses seem made up. I wonder if this is a case of malicious forge-subscriptions. If that is so, practicing confirmed opt-in would have prevented this. The message itself does not shed any light on the address list building mechanisms of this sender.
Apr
07
VisiScience: Spamming scientists from the cloud
VisiScience is spamming addresses harvested from PubMed. Their service provider is the Amazon cloud.
Apr
07
Advanstar: Adding new IP ranges for spamming
Apr
03
“Recovering Politician” Jonathan Miller: Keeping the Ol’ Campaign List Alive….
Former Kentucky state treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Miller, who now writes and tweets under the sobriquet “The Recovering Politician” (@RecoveringPol), apparently isn’t all that willing to let politics go. He’s still sending email to his old campaign list, which includes an email address that has not been live since 2003, long before he was running for governor. The ESP is Vertical Response.
Apr
02
Alurium: Offering Spamtraps a Webinar on Cloud Computing
Alurium, Inc., a cloud computing and web hosting company, sent a bulk email advertisement for a webinar to a number of spamtraps today. None of these spamtraps had ever heard from Alurium before, at least not since exiting their timeout periods and being turned into spamtraps. The ESP is Sendgrid.
Apr
02
Upromise: Sending a “Membership Notice” to a Spamtrap
Upromise, a college funding program operated by U.S. financial services company Sallie Mae, today sent a “membership notice” to a spamtrap email address that has never before heard from either Upromise or Sallie Mae. I have seen a great deal of spam for loan offers and college financial assistance to that spamtrap, which appears to have been placed on a (likely e-pended) list supposedly targeted at would-be college students and sold to all and sundry. :/ The ESP is Acxiom Digital.
Apr
02
Weight Watchers: Offering Easter Recipe Tips to a Spamtrap
Weight Watchers, a decades-old U.S.-based organization that helps those who want to loose weight, just started sending bulk email newsletters to a spamtrap email address that has never heard from the organization before. The email address in question, when live, was a role address for a small company, not a personal address. The email address does not appear likely to be the result of a typo. So I am wondering how it came to be on Weight Watchers’ list? The ESP is Epsilon Interactive, via its subsidiary Bigfoot Interactive.