Jan
19

Rope Oy: B2B spamming Finnish businesses, no address register indication, no opt-out possibility

Rope Oy, a Finnish marketing company d/b/a Rope-Yhtiöt, is resorting to spamming to advertise its own services. The ESP is MMD Networks Oy, whose instructions and suggestions for their customers clearly indicate they figure opt-out is OK. Or what do you think? “Jos vastaanottajat ovat tilanneet postin, lähetystiheys voi olla vaikka päivittäinen” – my translation: “If the recipients have subscribed to your mailing, it’s OK to send even daily”, implying that bulk email can be sent to recipients who haven’t subscribed. MMD, wonder if you know what unsolicited bulk email is known as around here?

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Jan
19

Fight for the Future: Repurposing Contact Email Addresses

Fight for the Future, a newly-formed nonprofit group that opposes the SOPA and PIPA antipiracy legislation currently under consideration in the U.S. Congress and that runs the sopastrike.com web site, is sending bulk email to email addresses that were entered into that web site as contact email addresses in case there was a problem with the user’s blacked-out web site or some other technical issue. The bulk email makes no claim to opt-in, although it offers an opt-out link. The ESP is Blue State Digital.

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Jan
19

Market Energia Sähkönmyynti Oy: Selling electricity deals to a spamtrap

Market Energia Sähkönmyynti Oy is trying to sell a better deal on electricity to somebody at the atro.fi domain that used to belong to Savon Voima Oyj, an electricity company in eastern Finland.

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Jan
18

Burt’s Bees: Now Spamming a Spamtrap Near Me….

Burt’s Bees, a popular U.S.-based natural cosmetics manufacturing company, is now sending bulk emails to a spamtrap that it allegedly updated via the opt-out FreshAddress service several weeks ago. Despite this futile and pointless attempt to turn an opt-out email address into an opt-in email address, their email still hit one of my spamtraps. It will likely hit several others when the rest of the list is mailed. The ESP is Responsys.

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Jan
17

Design A Print, Inc.: Customized T-Shirts for a Spamtrap

Design A Print, Inc., a South Carolina-based custom printing and design business, is sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that was closed in 2007. This spamtrap has not previously received email from Design A Print, at least not since it finished its timeout period and was re-enabled in early 2010. The ESP is Vertical Response.

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Jan
17

Try It Local: Local Business Deals for a Spamtrap?

Try It Local, a “deals” web site that offers discounts on products and services of local merchants to its users, is all of the sudden sending bulk email to an email address that closed in 2005. This service has not sent email to this email address previously, at least not since it ended its timeout period and became a spamtrap in 2008. The ESP is ExactTarget.

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Jan
17

Suunnittelutoimisto Jotain…: Illegally spamming for spamming services

Suunnittelutoimisto Jotain…, aka yrityspostia.fi, whom I have mentioned in passing here already, is spamming. (In other news, water is wet.) I’m really hard pressed to call this mainsleaze, but granted: it is sent by an entity that is readily identifiable from the message, it’s not botspam, and it’s not snowshoe spam, and it advertises services provided by the same entity that sent the message. So what else remains to call it but mainsleaze?

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Jan
16

Academic Insight: Spamtraps Don’t Take the SAT or ACT

Academic Insight, a U.S.-based academic test preparation service, is sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that was closed in 2003. This spamtrap has also not previously received email from this company. The ESP is Vertical Response.

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Jan
14

Computer Discount Warehouse: Sending to 6+ Year Closed Role Address

Computer and software retailer Computer Discount Warehouse (CDW) is sending bulk email to a role address closed in 2005. Although it never sent email or signed onto lists, this particular role address receives a great deal of snowshoe spam and a respectable amount of mainsleaze spam. This is probably the case because it doesn’t have a standard role address name and is therefore rarely suppressed or detected by the usual sanity checking routines at ESPs. The ESP is ExactTarget.

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Jan
13

Rick Santorum: Campaigning to a 9-Years-Gone Email Address

The campaign of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2003, asking for the support of his “fellow conservative”. The email nonetheless indicates that the email address was added to the system on January 10, 2012. The ESP is BlueHornet, a division of Digital River.

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