Feb
27
Adobe: Advertising desktop publishing programs to spamtraps
Adobe wants to sell software to rather outdated spamtraps. The ESP is Innovyx, whose front page prominently displays their ToS.
Feb
27
Pixel Designz: Advertising Web Design Services to a Purchased List?
Pixel Designz, a custom web site design firm, is sending email advertisements to two spamtraps, neither of which has been live since before 2006. Neither spamtrap has received email from this company since exiting their timeout period and being turned into spamtraps. Since the domain pixeldesignz.com was created in 2010, neither of these email addresses could have subscribed to this company’s list when they were live. The only explanations I can come up with for this are two separate typoed email addresses (not likely) or a purchased list. The ESP is Sendgrid.
Feb
26
This Week in My MainSleaze Folder
This week I’m providing a new type of spam report. It consists of a table that lists company names, the number of spams that they have sent to my spamtrap email addresses in the previous week, and the number of spamtrap email addresses that they’ve mailed. I am including only spam that is sent to those email addresses for which I accept delivery (perhaps 5% of total delivery attempts) and am excluding spam sent to any email address at a domain that is known to belong to me.
Feb
26
Chadwicks of Boston: Selling Clothing to a Spamtrap
Mail-order women’s clothing retailer Chadwicks of Boston is sending bulk email advertisements to a spamtrap email address that was closed in 2004. The ESP is Yesmail, a subsidiary of Infogroup.
Feb
26
iolo Technologies: Selling Windows Repair Software to a Spamtrap?
Iolo Technologies, a software company whose products optimize Microsoft Windows systems, is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2007, claiming that it subscribed to their list a couple of weeks ago. The ESP is BlueHornet, a division of Digital River.
Feb
25
Mayor Mike McGinn: Promoting himself to spamtraps
The Mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn, is mailing out to spamtraps that have been dead for ten years. The ESP is Postini.
Feb
24
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP): Spamming scientists, outdated and erroneous addresses
SCIRP are spamming addresses obtained from scientific publications in PubMed. This particular one was seen at an address that was last used to submit a paper in the fall of 2000 and is part of the new spamtrap group. They’re doing their own bulking, no ESP involved here.
Feb
24
LCGC: Spamming scientists from multiple locations
LCGC are not content to spam scientists from Advanstar, they’re also using the services of… Advanstar (aci-market.com).
Feb
24
EPS Inc. (Canada): Spamming to invite scientists to conferences
The Canadian business EPS Inc., of 1625 Maisonneuve Ouest Suite 305, Montreal, Canada H3H 2N4, tel. +1-514-933-4119, fax +1-514-933-9519 is spamming scientists to advertise a conference they are arranging. Their ESP is StreamSend, part of Web development and hosting firm EZ Publishing, whose acceptable use policy forbids the sending of unsolicited bulk email.
Feb
23
Yet More Travel Industry Spam to Mum
My mother’s email address is travelling extensively. I presume this is due to an email list supposed to be targeted to individuals who like to travel. Today’s installment includes the following, from a company that calls itself “Hello Travel” (hellotravel.com), which neither she nor I had ever heard of before. The ESP was Sendgrid.