Ratekoulutus: Teaching spamtraps about New Generation Email Marketing spamming

The fine fellow from Ratekoulutus, an old acquaintance here (www, biz reg) is spamming to advertise its spamming courses. Oh, I mean “workshops on New Generation E-mail Marketing”. The new generation is spam, as was the old one. Nothing new under the sun, in other words.

A show of hands, please: would you, the reader, take a class on e-mail marketing from somebody who deliberately sends unsolicited commercial email (spam) to what must be purchased or harvested lists consisting of, among other things, the outdated and erroneous addresses of natural persons?

Participating speakers include a dude from Koodiviidakko, an ESP that does not seem to practice bounce processing of any kind. He’s talking on the topic of purchasing lists. It’s also covered in their guidebook, in a generally positive tone.

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EUWIFO, European Economic Research Institute, Zurich: Still spamming Finnish businessesthe world with survey invitationsphishing

This is a refresh of the earlier post on the same spamming operation and spammer.  Their Web of Trust rating is still about as poor as it can be.  The McAfee SiteAdvisor contains comments suggesting it’s a phish.  I can’t say I have information to disprove that.  Their spam has been noticed in Romania, too, and even as far as in Japan.  Would everybody receiving this spam please let Netrics and DomainFactory know.

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Proteogenix: outsdanting scientific spam… as always

It’s just a little over a year to the day that I first wrote about this spamming company and this spammer, and here she is again. No, she hasn’t been absent in the meantime, I just haven’t gotten around to making updates every time Proteogenix have spammed.

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CAUCE President John Levine, Ph.D. receives the MAAWG Mary Litynski Award

Watch John’s acceptance speech on y00t00b.

Congratulations, John! To say it is well deserved is an understatement, but there you have it.

OfficeHelpsX Oy: Selling printing supplies to spamtraps

Ever since mid-November 2012 or so, OfficeHelpsX Oy (www, biz reg) are spamming to sell printing supplies and office products. The domain registration of the spam-advertised domain, kotar.fi, at FICORA indicates a former d/b/a of the business, Konttoriapu UK Oy, and a phone number that leads to somebody who isn’t them (although names were recognised).

OfficeHelpsX Oy (d/b/a Kotar) are doing their own spamming (after a brief venture with a sorry excuse for an ESP, MailerLite).

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Koulutuspalvelu Vaikutus: Still selling education to spamtraps

Nothing new under the sun: Koulutuspalvelu Vaikutus (www, biz reg), who share at least one player with a spammer we already know, PowerCompetence, continue to spam to sell their courses, with a travesty of an address file announcement that amounts to wiping their bottom ends with Section 25 of the Personal Data Act.

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Informa IBC Sweden and CarmaMail: Incompetents’R’Us and failing to observe opt-out

An address on my namesake domain had apparently subscribed to this list back in the days of old (before August 31, 2009, which is when they abandoned the domain). They took their sweet time before using the list – the first incident I witnessed was on August 9, 2012. (Incompetents’R’Us #1)

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lumilahti.fi / ilmainentuote.fi: Spamming to sell spamming services

I’m getting to this a little late, but it’s only because I was notified of the same happening again by somebody else.

ilmainentuote.fi, maapallo.fi and lumilahti.fi, all three registered to a private person (see FICORA web-based WHOIS for the identity of said person – also indicated below in recent spam text) are involved in what pretends to be B2B spam. Only there isn’t a B on the left hand side of the 2. I wonder what it should be called then. Clearly it’s not C2B, because the sender is operating in a way that resembles a business. Maybe they don’t want to tell the taxman. There clearly is a business, because you can’t rent PO Boxes in Finland without a business ID.
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Toshiba Finland: Contracting with known spammers to sell printing services to spamtraps

Toshiba Finland (www, biz reg) have contracted with the sorry spammers from Turku, Panic Marketing (www, biz reg, LinkedIn) to carry out a marketing campaign. Approximately 1.8 billion inboxes have already said “no” to this missive.

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OMICS Group: more spam

Spamming PubMed-originated addresses from 103.9.222.0/23, whose rDNS suggests a larger scale spam operation.

In the meantime, the true nature of the OMICS Group (i.e. a total fraud) has been revealed elsewhere.

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