KaBloom.com, an online florist, has for many months been sending bulk email advertisements to a spamtrap that closed in 2006. (I first noticed these spams in July 2011.) The ESP is Vertical Response.
Tractor Supply Company, a Tennessee-based company that sells farming supplies both online and in stores, just sent an advertisement email for the first time to an email address that, if it ever existed, was closed in 2004. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.
Online Property Tax Appeal, a company that offers American householders assistance in persuading their local governments to reduce their property taxes, is hitting a spamtrap and a live employee address at a firm in the UK. (My company, as a matter of fact.) It scarcely seems needful to state that neither the spamtrap nor the UK resident employee asked to receive this email. The ESP is Real Magnet.
Eksenbilgisayar, an online computing equipment and electronics store based in Istanbul, Turkey, a few weeks ago started to spam an email address that, if it ever existed, was closed in 2002. Most of the content of the email is in remotely-hosted images. The ESP is MadMimi.
It appears that the list that Celebrity Cruises is using has itself gone on a ramble. For the past few months my mother’s email address has been inundated with email advertisements for cruises from a number of firms. The most recent is an organization in Scottsdale, Arizona (go figure!) that calls itself Our Vacation Center. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Do you know who Compensation Management Resources is? I do not. Nonetheless, they’re sending mail to an address at a domain that has had no valid users since at least early 2007 (but probably much longer). The sender’s methodology seems legitimate — they’re using a legitimate list management software package called Lyris. But the address they’re sending to sure feels like evidence of spam to me.
The ESP or list owner seems to be Business 21 Publishing, based in Pennsylvania in the USA. Their Lyris server appears to be hosted by an ISP called NetAtlantic.
The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), an organization that supports the campaigns of Democratic candidates for state legislatures, is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2008. The ESP is Salsalabs, the ESP side of liberal U.S. political activist group Wired for Change.
King Ice, an online retailer of hip-hop jewelry for men, today sent a bulk email advertisement to an email address that has never heard from it before, and that was closed in 2004. The email makes no claim to opt-in, and provides no postal address or contact information for the advertiser that is visible in the text portion of the email. (Most of the email consists of remotely-loaded graphics.) The ESP is Campaigner.
Today’s spam from The Political Insider, a newsletter that had previously appeared to be about conservative U.S. political issues and about which I blogged once already, consists solely of a non-political advertisement for the Pimsleur System, a well-known language education program in the U.S. As before, the email was sent by ESP BlueHornet, a division of Digital River. As before, URLs in the message body point to a marketing firm, Paramount Communication Group.