Nov
11
Estonian spammer Urmo Mark whining
Took me almost a year to notice
http://urmomark.com/2013/12/25/atro-tossavainen-soome-emaili-turundajate-ristiruutel-suomen-sahkoposti-markkinoijat-crusader/
Oct
12
The Democratic Governors Assocation: Spamming
The Democratic Governors Association (DGA), an arm of the U.S. Democratic political party whose goal is to elect Democrats as governors of U.S. States, is spamming heavily on behalf of political campaigns across the country. Their ESP is Silverpop, currently owned by IBM.
Sep
22
Regus Finland still spamming
Regus still spamming, still through Edatis, still using purchased lists.
Spamming IP: 83.136.212.5
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Sep
08
EmailVision: Continuing the Payday Loan Spam Tirade
As mentioned on this site earlier, EmailVision now seems to be one of the ESPs of choice for the payday loan spam industry.
Aug
30
Easy Glove: Emailing a Purchased List
Golfing accessories maker Easy Glove emailed a long-closed personal email address of mine today with an advertisement for custom golfing gloves. An advertisement in French. I don’t speak French. And I don’t play golf and never have. The ESP was Emailvision, a reasonably responsible French ESP that was bought out by cloud marketing company SmartFocus a couple of years ago.
Aug
29
Targeted Victory: Emailing a Dirty List Again
Targeted Victory, a U.S. political campaign organization, is emailing several of my spamtraps. Most are typotraps: pristine spamtraps that are similar enough to the domain names of large ISPs or companies that they receive a great deal of misdirected email. The email was sent through ESP and marketing automation specialist Silverpop, which was recently acquired by IBM.
Aug
24
Virtual Telecare Inc.: Spamming a Purchased List
Staffing company Virtual Telecare Inc., doing business as Appointment Guarantee, today offered virtual staffing services in the Philippines to every email address that ever existed at an American real estate brokerage. Unfortunately for Virtual Telecare, the company in question went bankrupt several years ago. The email was sent through SMTP relay service SMTP.com.
Aug
21
Knowledge Hut
There’s any number of great resources on Knowledge Hut, such as MyWOT, or this conversation on LinkedIn. Nonetheless, I figured we might add our $.02.
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Aug
14
Amazon Local: Opt-Out Email at its Finest
Online retailing giant Amazon is emailing its “Amazon Local” advertising emails, which are customized by customer location, to every customer that it has until that customer opts out. Among those are several dozen of my spamtraps, most of which are pristine or obvious typos and were never active email addresses. Amazon is sending these emails through its own Amazon SES SMTP relay service.
Aug
11
Gateway Analytics Network on StreamSend
Gateway Analytics Network is spamming via StreamSend. StreamSend, true to their usual colour, are turning a deaf ear to messages sent to abuse@.