Martha White: Spamming an Email Address that Never Existed
Martha White, a US-based seller of baking products, is sending bulk email to an email address that has never existed (also called a pure spamtrap) advertising Smuckers products. (Smuckers is a household name in the US, mostly known for its jams and preserves.) Martha White might possibly have failed to confirm a typoed web subscription, but the email address in question is not one that would easily be typoed, so a purchased list seems likely. The sending ESP is Silverpop.
Sending IP: 208.85.49.35
Spam Sample:
Actual Headers:
Received: from mail1006.silverpop.mkt2179.com (mail1006.silverpop.mkt2179.com [208.85.49.35])
by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
for <xxx>; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 04:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
Received: by mail1006.silverpop.mkt2179.com (PowerMTA(TM) v3.5r16) id <xxx>
for <xxx>; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 03:xx:xx -0500
(envelope-from <<xxx>@bounce.mkt2179.com>)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 03:xx:xx -0500 (EST)
From: Martha White <friends@marthawhite.com>
Reply-To: friends@marthawhite.com
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <xxx>
Subject: Final chance to win from PowerofFamilyMeals.com!
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="<xxx>"
x-mid: <xxx>
x-job: <xxx>
x-orgId: <xxx>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:<xxx>@bounce.mkt2179.com?subject=Unsubscribe>
Readable Email:
From: Martha White <friends@marthawhite.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Final chance to win from PowerofFamilyMeals.com!
Reply-To: friends@marthawhite.com
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