Jan
21
The incredible leakyness of commercial mailers
Here is a repost of a blog entry by CAUCE President John Levine in which he explores the murky world of stolen mailing lists, and how companies rarely acknowledge such breaches.
Jan
21
Cosmetic products for the spamtrap: Estee Lauder
I have no way to identify why any addresses would be on Estee Lauder’s list, but at the very least, it is clear that they are paying zero attention to bounces. Addresses that have spent a decade dead just shouldn’t be on anybody’s mailing list any more.
The ESP is CheetahMail, who, according to a rDNS lookup of the surrounding /24, handle bulk email for entities such as VistaPrint. The words “lossless compression” did briefly cross my mind.
Jan
15
Carwash.com: Spamming a Decade-Closed Email Address
Some outfit that I have never heard of before, PC&D B2B Trade Group™ aka Carwash.com, started sending bulk email advertisements last week to an old email address of mine that was retired over a decade ago. Carwash.com is part of EBSCO Publishing. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Jan
10
Gelo Oy: Spamming to sell training on online shops
Gelo Oy (www, biz reg) is spamming to sell its services. They admit to having purchased a list from UAB Venitas / globe-yellow-pages.com.
Jan
09
Esquire Magazine: How did you find me?
What an exciting offer! Esquire seems like a nice magazine. Though, I have to admit, I can’t tell you the last time I’ve ever purchased or read an issue of Esquire. I’ve never subscribed to Esquire, online or offline, and I have no idea why they would be sending this to me. I am definitely not a registered subscriber nor did I opt-in to this. It smells to me as though they are obtaining addresses from a third party.
I hope their ESP, E-Dialog, will look into this. I can’t have been the only person to receive this.
Jan
04
SLP Group OSK (Cooperative) / ukko.fi: Offering billing services to spamtraps
SLP Group OSK d/b/a Ukko.fi laskutuspalvelu (www, biz reg) is advertising its billing services to spamtraps. The ESP is tiedotteenne.fi, a d/b/a of Mousewell Oy (www, biz reg), d/b/a Sörnäisten Sähköinen Suoramarkkinointi (Sörnäinen Electronic Direct Marketing), a relatively new Finnish spam op.
Jan
04
Swedish spam ESP: Mailcom / Venamail
More information at the sender’s site. Note the complete absence of anything resembling an AUP and anything that would discuss the issue of spam (from the recipient’s perspective, anyway).
Jan
03
On personal data protection requirements in Finland
Got a response from the Data Protection Ombudsman today (on a matter related to Marjex Oy, Document No. 3030/4511/2012). It has several interesting points of which all Finnish spammers should take note.
Jan
01
AA-Realisointi / Oy JVK Finland Ab: Advertising auction services to spamtraps
Dec
29
seofinland.net: Spamming nonexistent addresses with link exchange solicitations
This isn’t really mainsleaze, because it’s so spammy and fraudulent, but I’ve sort of covered the topic before, so now that the spammer spammed again, I’m publishing the fact.