Passeli Ohjelmat Oy (see biz reg), a Finnish manufacturer of financial software for bookkeeping etc, want to sell their products to really quite outdated and erroneous spamtraps. They are using a purchased list from Suomen Asiakastieto. The ESP is Innoctus, whose postmaster didn’t exist about a month ago when I tried to let them know about the need for bounce handling… in connection with spam from Passeli, what else.
JS Media (see biz reg; a personal d/b/a of Jukka Saario) wants to teach spamtraps how to deal with Facebook Timeline. Addresses are outdated and erroneous and the sender indicates having bought them from Fonecta. The ESP is Campaign Monitor, whose anti-spam policy forbids the use of purchased lists.
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In reference to my earlier posts (1, 2) on the topic. Regus (pretends to be the Luxembourg business, but have a well established local presence) continue to mail outdated and erroneous addresses, and more importantly, fail to observe opt-out.
BioMedLib (bmlmail.com, bmlsearch.com) are spamming scientists with invitations to sign up for their service. They are doing their own bulking from what appear to be “business grade” cable connections from various providers, with generic rDNS, in Virginia. The domains are registered via Yahoo! to Mir Siadaty, of 1112 Rustic Willow Lane, Charlottesville, VA 22911. The bmlmail.com domain was only registered three-ish weeks ago. Something tells me signing up isn’t required for the “service” to continue.
Ratekoulutus (see biz reg) wants to teach spamtraps how to advertise on Google. They have a bit of a history here.
Acc Consulting (see biz reg) is inviting spamtraps to courses on work safety. I mentioned the issue of using outdated addresses (specifically, the problem of purchasing same from Fonecta, and of using purchased lists in general) to them in email on Feb 21, but don’t think I’ve had a response, and the marketing efforts continue.
Microsoft is up to two spamtraps now; it has sent unsolicited bulk advertising email to two different email addresses that have not been live since before 2008. One of those email addresses has received Microsoft spam previously; the other has not received email from Microsoft since before it became a spamtrap. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Laboratoire de Biotechnologie du Luxembourg S.A. (genecust.com, distribio.com) is spamming addresses obtained from articles published in scientific journals. As far as I can tell, they’re doing their own spamming from a VPS at sivit.org (a service provided by Nerim).
Rentalo, a vacation rentals portal, just sent a bulk email advertisement to an email address that has been closed for at least eight years. This email address has not previously received email from Rentalo, so I wonder why it is now? The ESP is Campaigner.