Mar
04
Mar
02
Aviva Systems Biology Corporation: spamming scientists
Aviva Systems Biology Corporation is spamming scientists, very professionally indeed from somebody’s personal domestic/residential-looking ADSL connection in San Diego. Perhaps Matt Landry’s as that’s his name in the Reply-To:? The abandoned ANAC satellite / Chinese phone numbers, the Chinese domain registrar, and the Chinese DNS in the domain registration of avivasysbio.com are rather telling.
Mar
02
ab-mart.com (ai bi ma te sheng wu yi yao shang hai you xian gong si): spamming scientists
Abmart is spamming scientists whose addresses it has retrieved from articles available on PubMed. I’ve seen this spam in my own (positively ancient) traps as well as in mail reported to me by friendly scientists. There is no ESP; they’re using NetEase’s public webmail and Sina.net’s public webmail to spam. Is this even mainsleaze spam anymore?
Mar
02
GenScript: spamming scientists
GenScript, a leading biology CRO focusing exclusively on early drug discovery and development services is spamming scientists. The spamming domain molecular-biology.net is owned by “Company”, with a contact email address on Comcast’s public service, and redirects to GenScript’s own site if accessed through HTTP.
Mar
02
Necco: Offering Sweet Things to Spamtraps
Vintage U.S. candy maker Necco® set bulk email advertisements to two spamtrap addresses in the past 36 hours. The spamtraps might have been legitimate email addresses at one time, but not after 2005. Despite this, the email claims that these email addresses “recently registered with a network site to receive special online offers.” This is not true for any reasonable definition of “recent”. The ESP is Yesmail, a subsidiary of Infogroup.
Mar
02
OP-Pohjola: Asking spamtraps to fill in surveys
The OP-Pohjola group wants spamtraps to fill in surveys on vehicle insurance. This was seen at mildly outdated spamtraps as well as ones quite terribly so. The address list to which this was sent is the customer file of Pohjola Insurance, which appears then to violate Section 9 Paragraph 2 of the Personal Data Act that forbids the processing of outdated and erroneous personal information. The ESP is Digium Enterprise, a d/b/a of Questback Oy.
Mar
02
TELUS Business Solutions: sending bulk advertising emails to a spamtrap
Mar
02
Atenga: Teaching Pricing Strategies to a Spamtrap
Atenga, a consulting firm that teaches businesses how to set prices for their products and services to maximize profits, today sent a bulk advertising email to a spamtrap that closed in 2004. The spamtrap has not previously received email from Atenga. Was this a typoed subscription, or a purchased list? The ESP is Sendgrid.
Mar
01
Charming Events: Inviting spamtraps to a murder mystery on a steam train
Charming Events Ltd want to invite a bunch of ancient spamtraps to an evening of fine dining and murder mystery on a steam train. They’re doing their own bulk emailing.
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Mar
01
Peebles: Actually Confirming Your List? (I Hope…)
Last November I blogged about a spamtrap hit by Peebles, a U.S.-based retailer of clothing and accessories. Today Peebles hit that spamtrap again with an email that just *might* be an opt-in confirmation, although the language does not make that clear. The ESP is CheetahMail, a division of Experian.