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New York ski resort Hunter Mountain is sending bulk email to a long-closed email address. The email address was last “live” in 2007. The ESP is BlueHornet, a division of Digital River.

The original owner of this email address was resident of the New York City area, so it would normally be credible that the email address might have been on a ski season notifications list for a New York ski resort. However, the spam below indicates that the email address was added to the system in May of 2011, when the email address had not been in use for slightly over four years. So this spamtrap hit was probably due not to failure to maintain a legitimate opt-in list, but to a purchased list. Sending email to purchased lists is spamming, period and end of sentence.

Sending IP: 216.54.194.197

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from smtp.tokelau.bluehornet.com (smtp.tokelau.bluehornet.com [216.54.194.197])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Mon,  7 Nov 2011 14:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
X-MSFBL: <xxx>
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
Received: from [10.64.xx.xx] ([10.64.xx.xx:xx] helo=localhost.localdomain)
        by <xxx> (envelope-from <bounce-<xxx>@returnpath.bluehornet.com>)
        (ecelerity 3.0.28.38595 r(<xxx>)) with ESMTP
        id <xxx>; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:xx:xx -0800
Message-ID: <xxx>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:xx:xx -0800
From: "Hunter Mountain" <questions@huntermtn.com>
Reply-To: questions@huntermtn.com
To: <xxx>
X-Outgoing: tokelau
Subject: Hunter Mountain Alert: ONE WEEK LEFT to Buy a BIG LIFT CARD!
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:unsub-<xxx>@listunsub.bluehornet.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="--<xxx>"

Readable Email:

From: Hunter Mountain <questions@huntermtn.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Hunter Mountain Alert: ONE WEEK LEFT to Buy a BIG LIFT CARD!
Reply-To: questions@huntermtn.com

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This message was sent by: 

Hunter
Mountain
PO BOX 295
Hunter, NY 12442 USA

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This message was intended for: <spamtrap>. You were added to the system May 26, 2011.

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