Comfort shoe specialists FootSmart sent email to an old web site role address that was closed in 2007, and after its timeout period was re-enabled as a spamtrap. This email address even when live did not send email and would not have subscribed to receive bulk email. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Carbon Market Data is trying to reach their old contacts at Savon Voima‘s outdated addresses, not respecting opt out, they don’t have a postmaster, their ISP doesn’t care.
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This issue has been resolved. The blog remains posted because blogs shouldn’t disappear, to make sure that Google and other search engines and archives get the update, and in hopes that other people can learn something from it and the comments. 🙂
I didn’t receive this one myself. Instead, I noticed it on the Spamhaus Blocklist “Lastest SBL Changes” page.
Looks like a company called “Callbox Sales and Marketing Solutions” is trolling for B2B leads and it attracted the attention of Spamhaus, who has now listed the source IP on their SBL. The ESP is Streamsend.
Three weeks later, AT&T spammed the same spamtrap it did earlier again, pushing it to buy AT&T’s U*Verse service. The spamtrap in question is a “pure spamtrap”, that is, an email address that never existed at all. The ESP is still Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.
Viking River Cruises, a highly-rated cruise company, is sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that can’t have requested them since 2007, and probably never did. They sent this email via ESP Epsilon Interactive, also called Bigfoot Interactive.
ScubaStore.com, an online diving equipment and supplies shop affiliated with online merchants TradeInn.com, is sending bulk email to an email address that took its final dive in 2007, and after its twelve month timeout, was resurrected as a spamtrap. The ESP is Emailvision.
Apparel company Famous Footwear is sending bulk email to an email address that, to my knowledge, never existed. The ESP is Yesmail, which is hitting an astonishing number of my spamtraps lately.
Property Hub Realtors, a New Jersey based real estate and realtor services firm, is sending bulk email to an email address that has not belonged to anybody for many years, if it ever did. For a period of fourteen months, this email address rejected all email at SMTP time. The ESP is StreamSend.