eBusinessAppraisals.com, a company that offers appraisal services to online businesses and commercial web sites, approximately two weeks ago began to send bulk advertising emails to an email address that was closed in 2003. Since the domain eBusinessAppraisals.com was first registered in 2010, the only two ways that I can see this happening are a typoed subscription or a purchased list. The ESP is Marketo.
Seq 5 Oy, also trading as Siteseq, is spamming to attract new customers for its webpage design services.
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One of the many parties who spam the ten year old boxes are Vistaprint, whom I have discussed here before. The ESP is Relation & Brand, a Swedish operator.
Eat24, a U.S. company that allows people to order meals from participating restaurants and delivers those meals to their homes, just sent YET ANOTHER bulk advertising email to the tagged email address that I gave them when I tried their service a few months ago. At that time, although they did not ask permission to do so, they put that email address on a mailing list. I unsubscribed after I received the welcome message by clicking the Unsubscribe URL, and also sent email to abuse@eat24hours.com telling them, in no uncertain terms, that an email address given to complete a transaction did not grant permission to send bulk email. I didn’t hear from them again til today, when the attached spam arrived. The ESP is Vertical Response.
UKangaroo Marketing, an search engine and social media marketing company, sent bulk email advertisements for their services to a number of spamtraps last night. Some of these spamtraps are pure spamtraps; they never existed at all. This company appears to have spammed a purchased list; with this number of spamtrap hits, other explanations are simply too implausible. The ESP is Sendgrid.
Family Dollar, a U.S.-based chain that sells basic merchandise at discount prices, last night sent a bulk advertising email to an email address that cannot have been live after 2007 if it ever existed. Family Dollar has not sent any type of email to this spamtrap (or any of my spamtraps) previously. (The stores are located east of the Mississippi; I had to search Google to find out what they were.) The ESP is ExactTarget.
Spa Finland want to invite a spamtrap to visit Finnish spas during the winter break. Clearly this is not a very active mailing list; it’s the first time this address hears of spa.fi during my tenancy of the spamtrap domain. The person involved may very well have signed up voluntarily, but letting the list go for over two years without a single mail…? Give me a break. The ESP is Genisys, who know about the spamtrap domain already… as of January 18, 2011.
Tiimore Promotion Oy (tmore.fi) wants to sell business gifts to spamtraps. The spam was seen at the same spamtraps as the Designfair one, so it seems possible that the address source is the same, too. Apparently somebody is selling the emaildump.txt (Finnish equivalent of the Millions CD – a 11MB collection of leaked Finnish email addresses published in November 2011) as a legitimate B2C marketing register. The ESP is Koodiviidakko Oy.
Janne Leino, a private person of Ulvilantie 27b A 36, 00350 HELSINKI, tel. +358-40-966-4358, is spamming to sell investment services. The spam-advertised site indicates it is operated on behalf of Eindex Oy, which is a limited company involving Mr Leino and operates out of his home address. The message advertises a service connected to financial investments and admits it was sent to addresses harvested from the Finnish Business Information Service.
EventFlame Oy, who operate the Design Market Satama fair that will be organised in Helsinki in a week’s time, want to invite a spamtrap to visit the fair. Update Feb 8: A phone call from the CEO indicates they recognised their mistake in having bought a mailing list and will not be doing this again.
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