Feb
16
Markkinointirekisteri.fi on Amazon SES
After their recent ejection off SendGrid, Suomen Markkinointirekisteri Oy (www, biz reg) are now trying their luck with Amazon’s cloud services.
Feb
11
iFilip (Tavoite Media / Lateralus Enterprise), my spam superhero
Dude goes around asking “Which of these domains can be traced directly back to me”, then spams using the same domains advertising the SEO services of tavoitemedia.fi. What a brainiac.
Dude handles some of his spamming himself, but also sells address lists to others to use in spamming. The lists that he sells to others are considerably crappier than those he uses himself. Wonder why…
Feb
08
Espan Enkelit Oy: Selling chocolate to spamtraps
Espan Enkelit Oy (www, biz reg) is trying to sell chocolate to spamtraps.
This is a new low for Finnish mainsleaze spam in many ways. For starters, the pitch is an image only, the readable content looks like just their .signature. Also, the message contains neither anything on the address file used nor anything on how to be removed.
Feb
07
Nettex International Oy: Advertising to spamtraps
Nettex International Oy (www, biz reg), a wholesaler of perfumes and cosmetics, is advertising its wares and services to spamtraps. The ESP is Vipmailer, covered in the previous post. Some addresses on their list constitute outdated and erroneous personal data (Personal Data Act, 9.2 §), and the message does not contain the necessary information on the personal data file used or its data controller (Personal Data Act, 25 §).
Given that Vipmailer sell targeted address lists, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a case of Nettex having purchased the use of the addresses from their service provider.
This has been going on at least since Q4/2012.
Feb
07
Vipmailer.fi: An ESP trying to have their cake and eat it
Feb
07
Tmi Toni Artama (U:gin mainos- ja paitapaino, ABIclothing): Selling promo pens to spamtraps
A one-man business from Uusikaupunki (www, biz reg) wants to sell promotional pens to spamtraps. The ESP is MailChimp, the campaign execution has something to do with the advertising agency Mainostoimisto Ilmiö (www, biz reg), and the list is a purchased one (what a surprise) from Fonecta (yet another whopping surprise).
Feb
06
(RESOLVED) Markkinointirekisteri.fi on SendGrid
Aki seems to have some skill in cleaning up, but he’d need m4d $k1llz. This is a spam sent by and on behalf of Suomen Markkinointirekisteri Oy (www, biz reg), one of the Finnish peddlers of purchased email lists.
SendGrid, whose Email and Communications Policy forbids the use of the same, should clean him up pretty soon, I imagine. (In fact I received their report of the same during the writing of this post.) I must admit I’m a little disappointed that they haven’t crosschecked their customer base enough to spot Markkinointirekisteri’s presence before I did.
“Ei roskapostia, kaikki eivät halua sähköpostimainontaa!” is Aki’s slogan. Translation: “No junk email, not everybody wants email marketing!”. So true. I suppose it does not occur to you, Aki, that all unsolicited bulk email is junk email, and that your entire business is built around sending junk email and facilitating others doing the same?
Feb
05
iFilip clearly gearing up for more
Unlike the previous entry, at least this spam was sent on behalf of a recognisable entity, Storia Kustannus Oy (www, biz reg). Storia’s representative confirmed in private email that they purchased the campaign from Tavoite Media, a d/b/a of Lateralus Enterprise.
Feb
05
iFilip still at it
“Riikka Mäkelä”, which appears to be a fake identity set up by Tavoite Media, a d/b/a of Lateralus Enterprise, recently offered us the following spam. This isn’t even mainsleaze, it’s pure and unadulterated spam, but it was sent to addresses commonly used for mainsleaze (that is, Finnish B2B addresses). There was reason enough for more than a suspicion about the sender’s true identity, and the following post confirmed it.
Jan
25
Breaking news: Fonecta shuts down Kontaktikone
According to Kauppalehti, the Finnish trade/commerce newspaper, Fonecta has had to shut down the email parts of its Kontaktikone spam machine because of Spamhaus listings.
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