In reference to my earlier posts (1, 2) on the topic. Regus (pretends to be the Luxembourg business, but have a well established local presence) continue to mail outdated and erroneous addresses, and more importantly, fail to observe opt-out.
Ratekoulutus (see biz reg) wants to teach spamtraps how to advertise on Google. They have a bit of a history here.
Vistaprint are spamming, as always. Fonecta (specifically their Kontaktikone branch) are helping, as always. The addresses so targeted are severely outdated, as always. Nothing new under the sun. A marriage made in heaven, or in Hell, whichever you prefer.
The old Military Industrial Buyer’s Guide spammers that I blogged about back in November 2011 are back under new domains (dodsupplier.com and dodworld.com) and slightly modified name (Federal Buyer’s Guide). Their ESP is still SendGrid.
A young man from Espoo, Finland, a private person carrying on trade under the primary name Lateralus Enterprise d/b/a Tavoite Media, who objects to being named here and has enlisted the help of the Data Protection Ombudsman’s Office to have his name stricken from this blog, is spamming to offer his e-marketing consultation services. I’ve seen his spam at my own business starting August 2011; apparently he’s managed to listwash my business (easy enough) but unfortunately for him, my ancient spamtraps contain some addresses that are in the Finnish Business Information System too, so I get his spam this way.
This is so filthy it’s really hard to accept it as being mainsleaze. But 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? Kontaktdata.se, a service of Svensk Företagsinformation Ab (“Swedish Business Information Ltd”) makes no pretenses about it. They sell and rent address lists for spamming and figure it’s all right. I don’t know if Cention are the ESP, or actually the party behind the operation.
LCGC are not content to spam scientists from Advanstar, they’re also using the services of… Advanstar (aci-market.com).
Oh come on guys. Really? What made me laugh was the inability of this “Chief Marketing Officer Membership” to not segment and target me properly. Shouldn’t marketers know how to target? I am NOT a CMO, nor have I ever played one, and I’ve never told anyone I work in a marketing department.
Spamming Company: http://www.gleanster.com/
Sending ESP: http://www.salesfusion.com/
Today I received what seems to be spam from a company I’ve never done business with nor can I find any reference to sending or receiving an email from them in the past.
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).