July 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps July 2016
The theme of this month’s post is “Rospaden”
The percentage of ESP sent mail vs all mail seen in the spamtraps is back to rather more modest levels, 1.3%. The amount of ESP mail was 10% lower than last month, and the total amount of mail was back to normal levels (up 60% from last month!).
We have a new contestant; a Spanish hosting/mail service provider, ConsultorPC, who have managed to attract the attention of “Levente Bartha”, apparently of “VIP Media Limited”, in Bucharest, Romania, who target Swedes rather exclusively; hence; Rospaden, Romania, Spain and Sweden.
| RATING | PARTICIPANT | PERCENTAGE | NOTES | MOST PROMINENT CUSTOMER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | All others | 45.3% | ||
| 1 | SalesForce Marketing Cloud | 9.0% | ExactTarget | Kohls (5.2%)( |
| 2 | SendGrid | 8.7% | booking.com (~5%) | |
| 3 | MailChimp | 6.0% | 92% MC proper, 8% Mandrill (being phased out) | goldenscent.com (~1%) |
| 4 | Experian | 6.0% | Target (~9%) | |
| 5 | ConsultorPC | 5.6% | VIP Media Limited, Bucharest, Romania (>99%) | |
| 6 | Amazon SES | 3.9% | 7dayshop.com (~8%) | |
| 7 | Constant Contact | 3.9% (only marginally below Amazon SES) | Advisor Perspectives (still at 36%) | |
| 8 | Oracle Marketing Cloud | 3.6% | Responsys, Eloqua and RightNow | Nordstrom (~13%) |
| 9 | IBM Marketing Cloud | 3.5% | Silverpop | The DCCC (on the up, >13%) with Hillary Clinton tagging only slightly behind |
| 10 | Rackspace Mailgun | 3.1% | millionaire-blueprint.com (~10%) |
Bubbling under: Benchmark Email (1.6%), Maropost, Diennea, SailThru, Mail Minion (another soon-to-be non-ESP), all at slightly above 1.3%.
Here’s the “relative badness” graph, with a new outlier to make it totally unreadable… 🙁
Amount of messages per separate customer of ESP, July 2016
Hans Jul Larsen of MySMTP.eu should not get too comfortable; looking at the snowshoe domain names of his customers, I suspect that it would be more appropriate to consider MySMTP.eu to have maybe a dozen customers, which would place them neatly on the same level with ConsultorPC what with their one heavily spamming customer.
Finally, the “top spamming customers” table.
| RATING | CUSTOMER | ESP | % OF THIS ESP | % OF ALL ESP MAIL IN SPAMTRAPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VIP Media Limited, Bucharest, Romania | ConsultorPC | >99% | 5.6% |
| 2 | Advisor Perspectives | Constant Contact | 36% | 1.4% |
| 3 | Target | Experian | 9% | 0.5% |
| 4 | Kohls | SalesForce | 5.2% | 0.5% |
| 5 | Nordstrom | Oracle Marketing Cloud | 12.6% | 0.4% |
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