Oct
23
Jun
11
Suomen Markkinointirekisteri Oy on Office 365
Aki Lindell seems to have obtained services from Microsoft.
Read more…
Jun
08
Ferratum Oyj, Payday Loans for Businesses and Affiliate Spam
Ferratum Oyj, a Finnish payday loan operator (www, biz reg, responsible people) recently had the smart idea to advertise their business loan services through affiliate spam. This blog entry attempts to document what ensued.
May
30
Snowshoe-like email verification and lead generation services
Many email verification and lead generation services act a lot like snowshoe spammers. They bounce around from host to host, hoping to avoid detection and suspicion caused by their unusual SMTP traffic.
May
24
Clickback MAIL hitting dead/invalid emails
Clickback MAIL has been hitting spam trap with email addresses which have been dead for a very long time (i.e. years) or never valid in any decade. Probably because Clickback doesn’t require pesky things like “Opt-In” or “Confirmed” subscribers but do allow purchased lists and “cold” contacts to be mailed. Seriously this is bad behavior, I wonder why no one has just blacklisted all of Clickback IPs/domains yet?
May
22
Very persistent Finnish B2B spammer: Seolocation Oy (d/b/a Afton Videot)
Seolocation Oy (biz reg, responsible people) are really persistent B2B spammers.
They’re also listed by Suomispam.
$ host -t txt afton.fi.dbl.suomispam.net afton.fi.dbl.suomispam.net descriptive text "20170411 " $ host -t txt aftonvideopalvelu.fi.dbl.suomispam.net aftonvideopalvelu.fi.dbl.suomispam.net descriptive text "20170320 "
May
17
B2B Spam from Oracle
Below is another example of B2B spam sent by a large, legitimate company, this time by Oracle. This spam was sent to a pristine spamtrap that follows the format of normal email addresses at the company in question, but does not actually belong to the person that received the spam. Unlike the IBM B2B prospecting spam I reported a few days ago, Oracle sent this spam from its ESP, the Oracle Marketing Cloud.
NOTE [5/19/2017]: An Oracle representative notified me that the IP address that sent the spam is NOT part of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, although that IP belongs to Oracle.
May
13
B2B Prospecting Spam from IBM
This week two fellow antispam activists, one of whom has been active in the field for over 20 years, reported receiving spam from the same IBM employee about the IBM Watson platform. One of the spams was sent to the business email address of the recipient. The other was sent to a pristine spamtrap that follows the formats usually used for email addresses at the company, but has never actually been used by the intended recipient. The spams were not sent through the IBM Watson Marketing Cloud (formerly SilverPop), but from its corporate mailservers.
Apr
21
Newest conman on the Estonian/Finnish B2B spam block: Ville Ryynänen, Ryynänen Consulting OÜ
Would you buy accounting services from somebody whose hand is already in your pocket? I wouldn’t, either. Rule #0: Spam is theft.
The winner this time is Mr Ville Ryynänen, of Ryynänen Consulting OÜ (see corporate and personal LinkedIn profiles; corporate website, inforegister B2B info), who asks Finnish owners of Estonian corporations whether they are happy with their current accountants and if they wouldn’t like to switch.
Apr
06
PumbaStick, or Take Two of “That which we don’t do”
Pre-consciously inspired by Vernon Schryver, an entity had these things to say today: