Feb
08

Suomen Kuntoutuslaitokset ry: Advertising spa holidays to a spamtrap

Spa Finland want to invite a spamtrap to visit Finnish spas during the winter break. Clearly this is not a very active mailing list; it’s the first time this address hears of spa.fi during my tenancy of the spamtrap domain. The person involved may very well have signed up voluntarily, but letting the list go for over two years without a single mail…? Give me a break. The ESP is Genisys, who know about the spamtrap domain already… as of January 18, 2011.

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Feb
07

The Lost Art of Goat SacrificingBounce Handling

I’ve recently laid my hands on a bunch of what I think are pretty fantastic spamtraps. A group of domains that used to belong to a startup at the turn of the millennium, sold for $A_LOT to a big player who didn’t know what to do with it and folded it in 2002. The domains haven’t been in any use since. You think a year’s timeout ought to do it? So do I.

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Feb
06

(RESOLVED) Tiimore Promotion Oy: Selling business gifts to spamtraps

Tiimore Promotion Oy (tmore.fi) wants to sell business gifts to spamtraps. The spam was seen at the same spamtraps as the Designfair one, so it seems possible that the address source is the same, too. Apparently somebody is selling the emaildump.txt (Finnish equivalent of the Millions CD – a 11MB collection of leaked Finnish email addresses published in November 2011) as a legitimate B2C marketing register. The ESP is Koodiviidakko Oy.

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Feb
05

Janne Leino / Eindex Oy: Spamming to sell investment services

Janne Leino, a private person of Ulvilantie 27b A 36, 00350 HELSINKI, tel. +358-40-966-4358, is spamming to sell investment services. The spam-advertised site indicates it is operated on behalf of Eindex Oy, which is a limited company involving Mr Leino and operates out of his home address. The message advertises a service connected to financial investments and admits it was sent to addresses harvested from the Finnish Business Information Service.

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Feb
03

(RESOLVED) EventFlame Oy / Pronto Group International Oy: Inviting a spamtrap to a design fair

EventFlame Oy, who operate the Design Market Satama fair that will be organised in Helsinki in a week’s time, want to invite a spamtrap to visit the fair. Update Feb 8: A phone call from the CEO indicates they recognised their mistake in having bought a mailing list and will not be doing this again.
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Feb
03

Sugardaddie.com: Welcoming a 10-Year-Old Spamtrap

Sugardaddie.com, a dating web site that describes its target market as “successful, attractive, ambitious, confident and experienced” people, is sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that was closed in 2002, ten years ago. The ESP is Pure 360, aka PureSender, which has a poor reputation with the Web-O-Trust but has not been sending any great volumes of spam to my spamtraps.

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Feb
03

Global Exchange: Still Emailing a Years-Dead Email Address

Global Exchange, an international coordination and support organization for mostly left-leaning activists, is sending bulk emails to an email address that was closed in 2003, which appears to be before this organization existed. The ESP is Salsalabs, the ESP side of liberal U.S. political activist group Wired for Change.

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Feb
03

American Seniors Association: Wants a Spamtrap to Join

The American Seniors Association (ASA), which describes itself as “the conservative alternative” to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), is sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that never existed. The ASA only started spamming this email address last week. The ESP is Streamsend.

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Feb
03

Miliot Oy Ab (Miliot Science, miliot.com): Spamming

Miliot Science wants to sell laboratory equipment via spamming. Unfortunately their spam was addressed to a natural person in violation of Section 26 of the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications, and does not contain a description of the personal data file used to obtain the addresses or the identity of the data controller, in violation of Section 25 of the Personal Data Act, and there is no description of the data file on the website either, in violation of Section 10 of the Personal Data Act.

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Feb
03

(RESOLVED) Turbogear Oy (swimshop.fi): Spamming the “B2B” list of yrityspostia.fi

Turbogear Oy (swimshop.fi) wants to sell swimwear via spamming.

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