Family Dollar: Offering Family Values to a Spamtrap

Family Dollar, a U.S.-based chain that sells basic merchandise at discount prices, last night sent a bulk advertising email to an email address that cannot have been live after 2007 if it ever existed. Family Dollar has not sent any type of email to this spamtrap (or any of my spamtraps) previously. (The stores are located east of the Mississippi; I had to search Google to find out what they were.) The ESP is ExactTarget.

Sending IP: 66.231.80.179

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from mta.efamilydollar.com (mta.efamilydollar.com [66.231.80.179])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Tue,  7 Feb 2012 21:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Received: by mta.efamilydollar.com (PowerMTA(TM) v3.5r15) id <xxx> 
        for <xxx>; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 21:xx:xx -0600 
        (envelope-from <bounce-<xxx>@bounce.efamilydollar.com>)
From: "Family Dollar" <familydollar@efamilydollar.com>
To: <xxx>
Subject: Home Sale! Create Your Look For Less!
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:xx:xx -0600
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:leave-<xxx>@leave.efamilydollar.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: "Family Savings" <reply-<xxx>@familydollar.com>
x-job: <xxx>
Message-ID: <xxx>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="<xxx>"

Readable Email:

From: Family Dollar <familydollar@efamilydollar.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Home Sale! Create Your Look For Less!
Reply-To: Family Savings <reply-<xxx>@familydollar.com>

Family Savings Club | HOME SALE! Create Your Look For Less!

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http://click.efamilydollar.com/?<xxx>
click here

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This email was sent to you by: Family Dollar
P.O. Box 1017, Charlotte, NC, 28201

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