Dec
05

Finnish Ice Hockey Association / Ilves Solutions Oy (intellia.fi): Spamming to sell tickets to ice hockey games

The Finnish Ice Hockey Association bought a spam campaign from Intellia.fi (Ilves Solutions Oy). As with practically any Finnish B2B spam, the stuff was seen at the addresses of some natural persons, the use of which constitutes a violation of Section 26 of the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications (not to mention that the processing of outdated and erroneous personal data violates Section 9, Paragraph 2 of the Personal Data Act) that have been retrieved from the Finnish Business Information System.
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Dec
04

Fonecta spam summary for November 2012

Spammers using Fonecta’s spamming services through Ixonos in November 2012. There might be more; this is what I saw in my traps.

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Dec
03

idevnews.com: Spamming Red Hat contacts

As of September 7, 2012, this crap is being sent to addresses that have been given to Red Hat either as part of a support contract or when registering for Red Hat events. Abuse@Red Hat and a local connection of mine have been notified. Abuse@Red Hat has completely failed to respond. My local connection promptly said he’d check if they have given their list to a partner. I don’t think he’s got back on it yet. The addresses indicated to Red Hat haven’t even been listwashed. What cluelessness is this?

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Dec
03

Bluebiit: Spamming to sell electronic gadgets

Bluebiit (see earlier post) have moved house and are now spamming from the network of Suncomet.com, to purchased lists obtained from Suomen Markkinointirekisteri Oy and Digimediatoimisto Haikuu as before. The spam-advertised domain www.tabletkauppa.com is hosted by Suncomet at the IP address that sent the spam.  The bluebiit.fi domain is hosted at [95.211.81.136] (rDNS “c3-suncomet.com”) by LeaseWeb in the Netherlands.  The bluebiit.com domain is hosted at [188.117.44.76] (“india-76.srv.hosting.fi”) by Nebula, as before.  The spam-advertised online shop kauppa.bluebiit.com is hosted by Sigmatic at [80.69.161.35] (“grid1b.sigmatic.fi”).
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Dec
02

Victoria’s Secret: A New Perfume Collection for a Spamtrap?

U.S. women’s intimate apparel boutique Victoria’s Secret is once again sending email advertisements to one of my spamtraps. This follows a somewhat more serious spam outbreak from this company in late summer, when they hit a number of my spamtraps. At the time I did not blog about it because Spamhaus listed them. (I usually try to warn companies about spam before it gets to that point.) The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.

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Dec
02

Sports Authority: Selling Fitness Equipment to Spamtraps

U.S. athletic equipment retailer Sports Authority recently started to send bulk advertising emails to two spamtraps. Both spamtraps have been closed for over a decade. The ESP is E-Dialog.

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Dec
01

MailerLite.fi: A Finnish branch office of a Lithuanian(?) ESP that doesn’t even observe its own AUP

Somewhat unfortunately, my traps are in receipt of spam that was sent by Webcore, aka MailerLite.fi, to a purchased list, one that contains addresses of natural persons, and outdated and erroneous personal data. So their own AUP doesn’t appear to apply to themselves, and hence is worth exactly the loo roll it was printed on.

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Dec
01

A Rather Disturbing Spam and Reminder From Childhood

Today I received a spam at one of my personal email addresses with the subject Public Records Report For, followed by a name that was decidedly not mine. I’m glad for that; had it been my name, I would have wondered just what else this sender knew about me or was telling others about me. 🙁 The sender was an entity named Archives.com, which I had never heard of previously but whose web site is amazingly similar to that of the much-better-known Ancestry.com. The ESP was EmailLabs (also known of as Lyris, Sparklist, and Uptilt).

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Nov
29

UAB VENITAS / globe-yellow-pages.com: Spamming to sell address lists for spam

Just as I was discussing the data provided by this spammer with a happy customer of theirs, the spam appears in my mailbox. Perfect timing.

Complaints to OVH will likely be redirected to a black hole.

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Nov
28

Fortnox: Selling accounting services by spamming purchased addresses harvested from the Web

Fortnox Oy (www, biz reg), the Finnish branch of the Swedish mothership, is selling its services by spamming. This spam was seen at the address my business publishes on its Web page. The contents of the message indicate they purchased an address list from Suomen Markkinointirekisteri Oy.

Markkinointirekisteri reported on October 5, 2012 that their file contains absolutely nothing on my business following earlier complaints. It follows that one of these folks is lying, but initially, I had no way to tell which one it might be. That is, until Fortnox / Mr Pilkama kindly admitted it (see comment below).

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