Oh come on guys. Really? What made me laugh was the inability of this “Chief Marketing Officer Membership” to not segment and target me properly. Shouldn’t marketers know how to target? I am NOT a CMO, nor have I ever played one, and I’ve never told anyone I work in a marketing department.
Spamming Company: http://www.gleanster.com/
Sending ESP: http://www.salesfusion.com/
Today I received what seems to be spam from a company I’ve never done business with nor can I find any reference to sending or receiving an email from them in the past.
Over three months after I blogged about spam from Bell Institute, the research arm of General Mills, to one of my spamtraps, and over two months since the spam resumed after a Bell Institute representative claimed that the problem was fixed, the spam from Bell Institute to that spamtrap continues. The spam started in mid-November 2011; Bell Institute had not emailed that particular spamtrap since it was re-enabled after its timeout period. The ESP is SilverPop.
Almost three months after I blogged about spam from Blair, a U.S.-based mail order operation, the spam continues unabated to that spamtrap. Whatever the original reasons for this email address being on Blair’s list, they don’t seem concerned that their email is hitting a spamtrap. Their ESP is Yesmail, a division of Infogroup.
Gerber Life Insurance Company, an affiliate of the U.S.-based company that makes baby food, has started sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that has been closed for years. This email address had not received any email from Gerber prior to a couple of weeks ago. In addition, the name in the email does not match that of the original owner of the email address, which is usually a reliable sign of an e-pended email address. The ESP is Acxiom Digital.
Motifolio, a site that provides biomedical PowerPoint toolkits for presentations, is spamming. Their ESP is the Canadian-based Campaigner. As an aside, Canada has relatively new anti-spam legislation that is among the best in the world. It simply prohibits all unsolicited commercial email. Let’s see what Campaigner make of this spam, given their terms and conditions, anti-spam policy, and said legislation.
Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, a company that provides products and services for biomedical research, is spamming. The ESP is SC-Networks GmbH, their Evalanche service, which does not appear to have a Terms of Service.
ATG biosynthetics GmbH, a German business, appears to be spamming addresses harvested from scientific publications as the scientist who received this doesn’t recognise being a customer. ATG are doing their own bulk emailing. The ISP is 1&1.