Cellectis SA, a worldwide pioneer in Genome engineering, is spamming addresses harvested from scientific publications. The ESP is EmailVision, whose anti-spam policy unequivocally prohibits the sending of unsolicited emails.
bioprofiling.de, a free web portal for analyses and interpretation of biological data of various natures is spamming scientists. They make no pretensions about their illegal opt-out spamming and data collection practices: You are receiving this message because you are an active author in the field. To unsubscribe, please reply with “no” in the subj. line. The message is sent from the network of the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow, Russia, and advertises a site hosted in the network of Bytemark in the UK.
Here’s another bunch who figure publishing a scientific paper makes you fair game to be spammed.
As with Proteogenix, here’s another bunch who figure the act of publishing a scientific paper serves as a form of granting consent to be added to all sorts of mailing lists.
Proteogenix, a French supplier of custom synthesis services, is spamming. It is unclear whether they are using an ESP or not; it doesn’t look like they are. The spamming domain 3go.fr is registered to a private person who wishes to remain anonymous. The ISP is OVH.
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Deltaline Oy d/b/a Mainospörssi (mainosporssi.fi) is spamming to sell office accessories, business gifts and the like. The ESP is Websonic Oy d/b/a Emaileri, who actively promote using purchased lists for B2B spamming on their site.
Hewlett Packard is sending bulk email advertisements to a spamtrap email address that was closed in 2005. The ESP is Yesmail, a subsidiary of Infogroup.
DPJ Suomi Oy (dpj.fi) wants to sell office furniture by spamming. The ESP is the Swedish epostservice.se, whose terms of service permit opt-out spamming wherever it is legal (Item 6).
Residential real-estate listing portal Rentals.com just sent a number of bulk advertising emails to spamtraps at different domains. None of these spamtraps was active after 2008, and all were in timeout for at least twelve consecutive months. The number of spamtraps pretty much rules out the possiblity of typoed web form subscriptions. Either Rental.com emailed a list that has not been contacted for years, or they purchased a list. (This is the first email that I have seen from them to any spamtrap.) The ESP is E-Dialog.
Coupons.com, a web site that sends emailed coupons for products from major manufacturers and retailers, is sending coupons to an email address that was closed in 2004. Since the domain Coupons.com was first registered in 1994, the original owner of this email address might have requested these emails. However, the address has not been active for eight years. For four of those years, it rejected all email at SMTP time with a 500-level rejection. Coupon.com might have ignored bounces for those years, might have left the email address uncontacted for years, or might have accepted a typoed email address and failed to confirm it. A purchased list is also a possibility. The ESP is Responsys.