I don’t buy from spammers if I can help it. That is a pity, because Sony Ericcson apparently wants to sell one of their mobiles to one of my spamtraps. I couldn’t understand the email because it was not in English or any language that I recognize. The spamtrap has been dead for years. The ESP is Acxiom Digital.
Pediatrics & Therapeutics, a scientific journal published by the OMICS Group, wants to solicit spamtraps to make submissions to the journal. The ESP is Benchmark.
Disney Destinations, the travel business of media and entertainment empire Disney Corporation, sent an advertising email to a long-closed email address today. This spamtrap hasn’t heard from Disney before, at least not since it became a spamtrap. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Vistaprint are spamming, as always. Fonecta (specifically their Kontaktikone branch) are helping, as always. The addresses so targeted are severely outdated, as always. Nothing new under the sun. A marriage made in heaven, or in Hell, whichever you prefer.
Silver Oak Casino, a group of online gambling sites that uses multiple names and domains, has been sending bulk email to a number of my spamtraps for months. None of these spamtraps has been live for over two years; some have not been live for over a decade. I was unaware until the last couple of days that the various casino spams that my spamtraps have been receiving via ESP Emailvision were all sent by the same company, but they were.
U.S.-based mobile telephone company Verizon Wireless today sent a bulk email advertisement to a spamtrap that has not existed since 2003. The spamtrap has not previously received email from Verizon Wireless since it came out of timeout and became a spamtrap. Nonetheless, the spam claims, “You recently registered with a network website to receive special online offers.” This is not true for any reasonable definition of “recently”. The ESP is Yesmail, a subsidiary of Infogroup.
Symantec are advertising Ghost Solution Suite to outdated contacts of theirs and thereby continue to demonstrate their lack of respect for the recipient’s opt-out. Now there’s nothing spectacular about senders not removing bounces, but Symantec have been informed of the domain having changed hands and hence their contacts being outdated in June 2011, and again in November 2011, over the phone, even, as well as their rep having been pointed to the earlier posts here. The ESP is Responsys, as before, who have failed to note the issue in any way – I’m labeling this an ESP problem as well.
Today Bank of America sent a customer satisfaction survey reminder to the same spamtrap via ESP Real Magnet that it has been emailing or months via ESP ExactTarget.