Military Industrial Buyers Guide: Spamming a Receive-Only Role Address

The Military Industrial Buyer’s Guide, a portal for military and government purchasers, is sending bulk email to a long-closed role address. This role address never sent any email, and never received email except to contact the former domain owner about issues with the company web site. There is absolutely NO way that this address ever requested this or any other bulk email. Either Military Industrial Buyer’s Guide accepts unverified subscriptions and somebody typoed an email address and domain, or Military Industrial Buyer’s Guide purchased a list. The ESP is SendGrid.

Sending IP: 208.115.214.198

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from o1.email.migbuyer.com (o1.email.migbuyer.com [208.115.214.198])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with SMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Fri,  4 Nov 2011 12:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Received: by 10.8.xx.xx with SMTP id <xxx>
        Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
Received: from mi10 ([UNAVAILABLE]. [10.8.xx.xx])
        by 10.8.xx.xx:xx (trex/4.07.0001);
        Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:xx:xx GMT
Received: from durmstrang (unknown [10.9.xx.xx])
        by mi10 (SG) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:xx:xx -0500 (CST)
Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by durmstrang (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Fri,  4 Nov 2011 10:xx:xx -0700 (PDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_----------=<xxx>"
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 10:xx:xx -0700
From: "Federal Buyers Guide" <ListingUpdate@migbuyer.com>
To: <xxx>
Subject: <xxx> No cost updates Government Buyers Guide
list-unsubscribe: <http://email.migbuyer.com/wf/unsubscribe?<xxx>>
X-Mailer: Postfix (v2.7.1) Durmstrang
Message-Id: <xxx>
X-Sendgrid-EID: <xxx>
X-Sendgrid-ID: <xxx>

Readable Email:

From: Federal Buyers Guide <ListingUpdate@migbuyer.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: <xxx> No cost updates Government Buyers Guide

You must complete and return the attached application to list your company as available for government contracting and sales opportunities in www.gov-world.com. The information you provide will be made available to state, county, federal and military buyers.

There is no cost involved.

Link to application below:
http://www.dodworld.com/r20/index.cfm?<xxx>

Deadline for registration 11/11/2011
Client Services
ID:<xxx>
For more information write to us at:
Federal Buyers Guide, 228 West Carrillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

If you’d like to unsubscribe and stop receiving these emails click here:

http://email.migbuyer.com/wf/unsubscribe?<xxx>

5 Responses to Military Industrial Buyers Guide: Spamming a Receive-Only Role Address

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