J.C. Penney: Last Day! Deals! Deals! For a Spamtrap, no Less….

J.C. Penney, a major U.S.-based department store, is sending bulk email to an email address that, when live, was assigned to a role account rather than a real person. This email address did not send email and never subscribed to receive email. J. C. Penney may accept unconfirmed web form subscriptions (guaranteeing typos and bogus subscriptions), or may have purchased a list. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a division of Experian.

Sending IP: 66.165.105.19

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from mta152.jcpenneyem.com (mta152.jcpenneyem.com [66.165.105.19])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:xx:xx -0000
Message-ID: <<xxx>@mta152.jcpenneyem.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rm-<xxx>e@jcpenneyem.com>
From: "jcpenney" <jcpenney-support@jcpenneyem.com>
To: <xxx>
Subject: Last Day! 1000s Of Deals, Up To $20 Off + Free Ship To Store
MIME-Version: 1.0
Reply-To: "jcpenney" <support-<xxx>@jcpenneyem.com>
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="<xxx>"

Readable Email:

From: jcpenney <jcpenney-support@jcpenneyem.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Last Day! 1000s Of Deals, Up To $20 Off + Free Ship To Store
Reply-To: jcpenney <support-<xxx>@jcpenneyem.com>

It’s the last day to shop 1000s of deals, like 40-60% off coats for everyone. The deals don’t stop there: up to an extra $20 off plus ship free to store.

Shop now.
http://jcpenneyem.com/a/<xxx>

<spamtrap> subscribed to promotional emails from jcpenney. To keep these emails coming, add jcpenney-support@jcpenneyem.com to your address book now. To unsubscribe from such emails or update your email preference, click below:
http://jcpenneyem.com/<xxx>

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6501 Legacy Drive, Plano, Texas, United States of America.
All rights reserved. To contact customer service, please call 1-800-222-6161.

3 Responses to J.C. Penney: Last Day! Deals! Deals! For a Spamtrap, no Less….

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