McAfee: Urging a Spamtrap to “Embrace Mobile Technology”

Antivirus company McAfee just sent a bulk email advertisement to a long-dead email address inviting the owner of that address to “embrace mobile technology”. This email address has not previously received email from McAfee; I wonder why it is now? The ESP is Eloqua.

Sending IP: 66.48.80.112

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from connect.mcafee.com (connect.mcafee.com [66.48.80.112])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Thu,  8 Mar 2012 11:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
Message-ID: <xxx>
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: "McAfee" <mcafee@connect.mcafee.com>
To: <xxx>
Reply-To: "McAfee" <noreply@mcafee.com>
Date: 8 Mar 2012 12:xx:xx -0500
Subject: Embrace Mobile Technology with Confidence.  Read the guide.
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=<xxx>

Readable Email:

From: McAfee <mcafee@connect.mcafee.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Embrace Mobile Technology with Confidence. Read the guide.
Reply-To: McAfee <noreply@mcafee.com>

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<http://www.mcafee.com/us/business-home.aspx>

SECURITY CONNECTED: Protect mobile devices and data strategically

Learn More

http://enterprise.mcafee.com/content/<xxx>-Security-Connected-Nurture?<xxx>

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