Mar
29
Autodesk: Still ignoring opt-out
This is really just a repeat of the previous post with new spam added.
Mar
28
StarPoint: Selling entertainment performers to spamtraps
Oy StarPoint Ab (see biz reg) is selling entertainment services to spamtraps. The ESP is Suomen IT-Ratkaisut Oy (viestisuora.fi).
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Mar
28
AppyMail: Sending Cheery Little Messages About Mobile Apps to a Spamtrap
AppyMail, a marketer of mobile apps, recently began to send its newsletter to an email address that was closed years before mobile apps or the mobile web existed. I’m not sure why, but the email address is not a likely candidate for a typo. The ESP is PulsePoint.
Mar
25
Life Technologies: Selling lab equipment by spamming
Life Technologies Corporation is spamming addresses found on PubMed. The ESP is ExactTarget.
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Mar
24
Congressman Cynthia Lummis: Keeping spamtraps informed of proceedings in Washington
This political spam was seen at addresses that have been dead for ten years.
Mar
24
OMICS Group: Advertising conferences to spamtraps
This post is Part 2 in a series of two. OMICS Group are not content to spam through an ESP; they’re also spamming under bioprovider.com, a Domain by Proxy.
Mar
24
(RESOLVED) OMICS Group: Asking spamtraps to submit papers
This spammer is an old acquaintance here. They’re still spamming through Benchmark, who haven’t reacted to the previous post. This one was brought to their attention in an abuse complaint as well. This post is Part 1 in a series of two; OMICS are using multiple channels to spam.
Mar
23
Why is Lyris Emailing for an Openly Opt-Out Mailer? :-(
An outfit that calls itself Informed Store, a marketer to third-party lists, is spamming spamtrap email addresses that did not opt in to their email or email from any other bulk sender. The email appears to have been sent on behalf of the Welsh government, and is partly in Welsh. The ESP is Lyris, also known of as Uptilt.
Mar
23
Safeway: Inviting a Spamtrap to View Cherry Blossoms
U.S. grocer Safeway is suddenly sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that been closed since at least 2007. This email address has not previously received email from Safeway since it completed its timeout period and was re-enabled as a spamtrap. Either somebody made a typo when subscribing to receive Safeway offers (unlikely in this case), Safeway reactivated a VERY old list that they had not contacted for years, or Safeway purchased a list. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.
Mar
23
Sony Mobile: MASSIVE Spam Run This Week
Sometime last week Sony Mobile, the cell phone subsidiary of Sony Corporation, started spamming several of my spamtraps, some of them email addresses that have been closed for years, and some email addressees that never existed at all. The spam dribbled out, two or three per day, until today. Today they hit over two dozen spamtraps that they had not emailed previously. Their ESP is Acxiom Digital.