Rustholli Remontit Oy (www, biz reg) is spamming to offer renovation projects. Rustholli Remontit Oy continues the business of the now-bankrupt RuRe Oy (ex Rustholli Remontit Oy) (old biz reg, bankrupt estate biz reg). The ESP is scion.fi, Mansoft tietotekniikka Oy, who don’t see it appropriate to publish an Acceptable Use Policy at all. Rustholli have been spamming through Scion.fi at least since March 2012.
I don’t know why today is a special day for Chinese scientific spam. But it seems to be. See previous post. The domains are registered to the same entities. The address source is, as before, “anything in PubMed goes”. I don’t know whether I should just take their advice and unsubscirble.
(I’m really impressed that the copy-paste from Emacs, which looks all blank on my screen, actually includes the Chinese content. Now there’s probably a way to identify the spamtrap from there…)
A new publication from the Science and Engineering Publishing Company, the International Journal of Advance in Medical Science is about to be started. They don’t even know who will be its EIC and what the ISSN numbers are (all TBD on their website). Nonetheless, even though they don’t half exist yet, they figured they’d spread the good news by spamming. There is no indication of address source, but my wild guess is “anybody who’s ever published anything that is available through PubMed goes”, no matter how old it may be. The sending domain is registered via a Chinese registrar to a Chinese registrant, the spam-advertised domain likewise, the sending IP is in China, but the Science and Engineering Publishing Company claims to reside at 7800 State Road 46 E, PO Box 551, Riley, Indiana, 47871, United States.
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Outdoor goods retailer and outfitter Cabelas, about whom I first blogged in January, just sent a bulk email to the same spamtrap after a hiatus of several months. Previously Cabelas handled its own bulk email. It has now moved its bulk email operation to ESP ExactTarget.
U.S. business newsletter Investor’s Business Daily just sent an advertisement to a spamtrap that, as far as I can tell, has never existed at all. (The domain has never as best I know had a deliverable email address.) The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.
Bipartisan Policy Center <events@bipartisanpolicy.org> invited me to their event. Bad idea.
Chevrolet – Parceiros <mkt-chevrolet@zimbas.info> wants me to buy a Brazilian Chevrolet and osh b’gosh! This is also from PleskLogin of Glendale California!
Volkswagen Consorcio – Parceiros <mkt-ofertas@sglobe01.com> wants me to buy a Brazilian Volkswagen, by way of PleskLogin of Glendale California.
SportElite Marketing Oy, under the unregistered d/b/a Aim Higher (www, biz reg) is spamming to solicit sponsorship for sportspeople. Their spam service provider is the Fonecta/Ixonos collaboration, which currently means they’re experiencing serious delivery problems. Which is only appropriate given the unusually poor quality of Fonecta’s lists (even with respect to the other crap everybody else is peddling that has its origins in the Finnish Business Information System) and their utter failure to understand the problem that is spam.