Fuddruckers: Asking a Spamtrap to “Like” Them on Facebook
Fuddruckers, a high-end hamburger restaurant in the United States, is sending bulk email to an email address that has not belonged to a real person since 2007, offering the owner of that email address the chance to win a $500 gift card for “liking” Fuddruckers on Facebook. The email indicates that this email address “recently registered with a network website to receive special online offers”. This is not true for any reasonable definition of “recently”. Either Fuddruckers is allowing users to subscribe via a web form and is not confirming subscriptions, or Fuddruckers purchased a list. The ESP is Yesmail, a division of InfoGroup.
Sending IP: 204.92.146.86
Spam Sample:
Actual Headers:
Received: from smtp.vmail-5.com (smtp.vmail-5.com [204.92.146.86])
by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
for <xxx>; Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-ID: <xxx>
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="<xxx>"
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite <xxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:xx:xx UT
To: <xxx>
From: "Fuddruckers" <IG@Vmail-5.com>
Reply-To: IG@Vmail-5.com
Subject: Like us and Enter to Win a $500 Fudds gift card!
X-Campid: cid=<xxx>@Vmail-5.com
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:unsubscribe-cid=<xxx>@Vmail-5.com>
X-Pviq: <xxx>
Sender: "Fuddruckers" <IG@Vmail-5.com>
X-Eid: <xxx>
Readable Email:
From: Fuddruckers <IG@Vmail-5.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Like us and Enter to Win a $500 Fudds gift card!
Reply-To: <IG@Vmail-5.com>
You recently registered with a network website to receive special online offers. To no longer receive messages, please use the link below to remove your subscription.
http://Vmail-5.com/webforms/unsub/index.jsp?<xxx>
Fuddruckers | World’s Greatest Hamburgers
Better Beef. Better Buns. Better Burger.
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Even Better When It’s Free! |
( http://ct.Vmail-5.com/rd/cts?<xxx>)
Click to “Like Us” on Facebook and Enter to Win a $500 Fudds Gift Card ( http://ct.Vmail-5.com/rd/cts?<xxx>)
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Corp. HQs, Luby’s Fuddruckers Restaurants, LLC
13111 NW Freeway, Suite 600
Houston, TX 77040
Phone: 713.329.6800