Grassfire Nation: Emailing a Long-Closed Email Address
Grassfire Nation, a U.S.-based conservative political action group, is sending bulk email to an email address that has been closed for many years. That email address rejected all email at SMTP time for at least twelve consecutive months before being re-enabled as a spamtrap. Grassfire mails from its own IPs; no ESP appears to have been involved.
Sending IP: 216.51.188.145
Spam Sample:
Actual Headers:
Received: from Fire5.grassfire.net (fire5.grassfire.net [216.51.188.145])
by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
for <dfouts@tfnisp.com>; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
Received: from mail pickup service by Fire5.grassfire.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Sat, 29 Oct 2011 09:xx:xx -0500
thread-index: <xxx>
Thread-Topic: It scared the hell out of me...
From: <alert@partnerorganizations.com>
To: <xxx>
Subject: It scared the hell out of me...
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:xx:xx -0500
Message-ID: <xxx>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_<xxx>"
X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
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Importance: normal
Priority: normal
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Readable Email:
From: <alert@partnerorganizations.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: It scared the hell out of me…
‘Scared the Hell Out of Me. It Was a Great Wake-Up Call’
– Russell H. from Wichita, Kan.
Concerned Average American
Millions of Americans Recently
United to View a Powerful Warning to
Prepare for an Economic Crisis in 2012!
Click Here to Launch This Eye-Opening Broadcast Immediately
<http://www.partnerorganizations.com/r.asp?U=<xxx>>
Dear Concerned American,
Millions from the East Coast, West Coast, and America’s heartlandrecently “woke up” to our harsh economic reality.
Because they saw the EVIDENCE.
The evidence for what lies ahead for our economy and the personal financial security of every citizen – our friends, family, and neighbors.
- A 90% drop in the stock market
- 50% unemployment
- 100% ANNUAL inflation
Leading this presentation was one of the few voices that accurately predicted the four-bubble meltdown that erupted in 2006 – Robert Wiedemer.
Wiedemer was also out front in 2009, warning of a coming fiscal emergency with our dollar destruction and government debt situations.
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Stay Safe,
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Aaron DeHoog
Financial Publisher
Newsmax and Moneynews
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Click here
<http://www.partnerorganizations.com/r.asp?<xxx>>
to be removed from this opt-in list or send a written request to:
Partner Organizations
PO Box 9374
Chesapeake, VA 23321.
NOTE: The web site at http://www.partnerorganizations.com redirects to http://www.grassfire.com. Both of those domains, and the domain grassfire.net, are registered to the same person, Bob Pritchard in Maxwell, Iowa.