July 2017 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps, July 2017
Better late than never?
The percentage of ESP sent mail vs all mail seen in the spamtraps was 3.2%, which was up 24% from June. The amount of all mail was down 28%. There are no surprises in the top 10 participant list, but the gap between MailChimp and the other two top contestants is growing in a rather favourable direction for MC, and at the same time, SendGrid’s participation is going in a bad direction. My Virtual Fleet is still spewing, but there was a new top contestant, who was using the very inventive “no-reply.net” as their sending domain – I am really quite surprised that this would even have been allowed. And of course, the content of those mails, which came only on July 9 and 10, were bank phishing against BB&T.
Bubbling under the top 10 this month: Sparkpost (1.8%), Sailthru (1.7%), Mapp Digital (1.5%).
| RATING | PARTICIPANT | PERCENTAGE | NOTES | MOST PROMINENT CUSTOMER |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | All others | 44.9% | ||
| 1 | SendGrid | 12.3% | BB&T phisher (10.5%) | |
| 2 | SalesForce Marketing Cloud | 10.2% | ExactTarget | Kohls (9.6%) |
| 3 | MailChimp | 6.5% | (7.7% Mandrill) | eccp.com European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (1.2%) |
| 4 | Experian | 6.1% | Walgreens (7.7%) | |
| 5 | Constant Contact | 4.0% | Advisor Perspectives (46%) | |
| 6 | Oracle Marketing Cloud | 3.8% | Responsys, Eloqua and RightNow | Nordstrom (12%) |
| 7 | Amazon SES | 3.5% | teaparty.org (6.3%) | |
| 8 | Mailgun | 2.8% | Anonymous Wix subscriber with several empty websites (leanbeas.com, tooshops.com, beesfirst.com, bescommerce.com, cuponiess.com) (25%) | |
| 9 | Epsilon | 2.2% | DICK’S Sporting Goods (33%) | |
| 10 | IBM Marketing Cloud | 2.1% | Silverpop | Menards (9.4%) |
Here’s the “relative badness” graph.
Average amount of messages per separate customer of ESP, July 2017
Finally, the “top spamming customers” table.
| RATING | CUSTOMER | ESP | % OF THIS ESP | % OF ALL ESP MAIL IN SPAMTRAPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Advisor Perspectives | Constant Contact | 46% | 1.8% |
| 2 | BB&T phisher | SendGrid | 10.5% | 1.3% |
| 3 | Zillow | Message Systems (SparkPost) | 61% | 1.1% |
| 4 | Kohls | Salesforce Marketing Cloud | 9.6% | 1.0% |
| 5 | My Virtual Fleet | SendGrid | 6.8% | 0.8% |
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