Jan
04
Swedish spam ESP: Mailcom / Venamail
More information at the sender’s site. Note the complete absence of anything resembling an AUP and anything that would discuss the issue of spam (from the recipient’s perspective, anyway).
Jan
01
AA-Realisointi / Oy JVK Finland Ab: Advertising auction services to spamtraps
Dec
14
CBS ZDNet Selects Messaging Options On Your Behalf
From someone at work, who swears “i did not check any of the boxes when i registered, and yet i got this.”
Dec
14
HP Photosharing Service Snapfish Are The Picture of Spammy, via Responsys
Received: from om-snapfish-email.rsys1.com (om-snapfish-email.rsys1.com [12.130.137.125]) by mail1.iecc.com ([64.57.183.56]) with ESMTP via TCP port 52839/25 id 528707038; 13 Dec 2012 hh:mm:ss -xxxx
rsys1.com
Dec
13
Finink.com: Selling printer inks to spamtraps / Oraakkeli.net: New Finnish B2B spammer
There’s a new player in town, Oraakkeli Oy (www, biz reg). They figure they’re doing something better than their competitors (that is, everybody in Finland spamming B2B lists completely indiscriminately) by spamming CEOs only. Their front page proudly says something about how they provide targeted B2B advertising and have a list of 35,944 CEOs from the 168,000 or so Finnish businesses in their list. The customer whose pitch they’re touting to “CEOs” is Finink.com (www, biz reg), an online retailer of printer inks.
Dec
11
Koulutuspalvelu Vaikutus: Selling education to spamtraps
Koulutuspalvelu Vaikutus (www, biz reg), who share at least one player with a spammer we already know, PowerCompetence, are spamming to sell their courses.
The ESP is NetMonitor (an unregistered d/b/a of Developer’s Helsinki Oy Ab), whose Terms of Service continue to contain nothing on spamming. NetMonitor’s ISP is Nebula, whose attitude regarding spam can only be described as being somewhere between lax and actively hostile against complainants.
Dec
10
eSoft – Verkkokauppa (Tmi Erno Tiepuoli): Spamming to sell electronic gadgets
eSoft Online Shop, a personal d/b/a of Erno Tiepuoli (www, biz reg) is spamming to sell electronic gadgets. The ESP is Elastic Email, whose terms of service do not allow the sending of spam, or the use of purchased lists, and specifically make reference to Spamhaus’ definition of spam. I’ve notified Elastic Email (by email to abuse@elasticemail.com) about this spammer no later than Nov 22, 2012, but haven’t heard back from them, and the spammer is still busy spamming. The address source is Eniro, which is another d/b/a of Fonecta. In other words, it’s a purchased list.
Dec
10
Promohouse Ltd, Seychelles: Spamming
This is a totally boring spammer, but it’s hitting Finnish “B2B” addresses obtained from the Business Information System, and the messages sent to Finnish spamtraps are in unusually credible Finnish for a foreign spammer. It is advertising translation services, booking assistance for hotels &c, and the provision of online shops, among other things.
It identifies itself as Promohouse Ltd. 307 Victoria House, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles. This text is in all spams and could be used as content-based filter fodder if somebody was so inclined. Personally, I view content-based spam filters as a waste of CPU cycles and would rather see this operation bumped off the edge of the Internet…
Dec
10