ChamberOfCommerce.com: Spamming Long-Closed Email Addresses

ChamberOfCommerce.com, a web site/service owned by Hargray, is sending bulk email to several long-closed email addresses. The ESP is Sendgrid.

Sending IP: 208.117.50.198

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from o2.email.chamberofcommerce.com (o2.email.chamberofcommerce.com [208.117.50.198])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with SMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Received: by 10.8.<xxx>.<xxx> with SMTP id <xxx>
        Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (unknown [mi11])
        by mi11.sendgrid.net (SG) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:xx:xx -0500 (CST)
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="===============<xxx>=="
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: Chamber Of Commerce <marketing@chamberofcommerce.com>
To: <xxx>
Reply-To: marketing@chamberofcommerce.com
Subject: An Exclusive Offer from ChamberofCommerce.com
Message-ID: <<xxx>@<xxx>.sendgrid.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
X-Sendgrid-EID: <xxx>
X-Sendgrid-ID: <xxx>

Readable Email:

From: Chamber Of Commerce <marketing@chamberofcommerce.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: An Exclusive Offer from ChamberofCommerce.com
Reply-To: marketing@chamberofcommerce.com

Dear <xxx>,

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Chamber Silver Premium ListingPremium placement on Chamber. Be found on Google Places.
Rank above your competition. Get more customers. – Learn More (http://www.chamberofcommerce.com/overview/pricing/?<xxx>

<removed>

Robert, Online Marketing
Corporate Turnaround
Chamber Premium MemberCOC Membership
membership@chamberofcommerce.com

This email is being sent to you from ChamberfCommerce.com. We respect your privacy, and therefore do not sell, rent, or abuse our member email list. We strive to send valuable, timely emails. ChamberofCommerce.com is here to help you. Regardless, if you would like to adjust your email preferences or no longer wish to receive our emails, please click here (http://email.chamberofcommerce.com/wf/unsubscribe?<xxx>

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