The Kauffman Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on entrenpreneurship and job growth through the founding of new businesses, is sending bulk email to a long-closed email address. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Loquierooo, an online boutique that sells high-end electronics and other high-end products, is sending “offers” emails to a spamtrap via French ESP Emailvision. The spamtrap is a long-closed email address that has not been live for years, and that rejected email for over twelve consecutive months in the interim before being re-enabled. It should not receive any bulk email any longer.
Isteer.net, a domain name registered to IPSS-Intelligent Precision Solutions and Services Oy, a Finnish limited company, is an ESP to various Finnish advertisers. They don’t process bounces, they deliberately refuse mail to abuse and postmaster, and they don’t respect opt-out.
Kuopion Liikekirjapaino, a business printing house in eastern Finland, is spamming addresses they just might know to have been dead for two plus years and are not taking “no” for an answer. Innoctus, an ESP in Finland, are not processing bounces nor taking precautions to clean their customers’ lists of known dead addresses even when they have been requested to do so.
Integrated solar photovoltaics construction company Onyx Solar, a company whose field fascinates me and whose mailings I could have seen myself asking for, is spamming role addresses (email addresses assigned to a role, such as sales or webmaster, instead of a person) and other email addresses that were scraped from old web pages. They are using FAGMS.de, a subsidiary of ESP Cheetahmail, itself a subsidiary of Experian. This isn’t a list of addresses that I would expect a legitimate company to be sending bulk email to, or an ESP not to have immediately caught as dirty. What happened?
Albertson’s subsidiary Jewel-Osco is still spamming via ESP Cheetahmail (a subsidiary of Experian), and still hitting email addresses that have never existed at all. Apparently CheetahMail did not even require that its spamming customer quit mailing til they found out why this was the case. 🙁
A Brazilian investment company, Fortune Invest, sent bulk email in Portuguese to a spamtrap via Brazilian ESP Dinamize. Dinamize uses the domain smartcrm.com.br to do its bulk mailing. The spamtrap is at one of my personal domains, not a spamtrap domain, but is a pure spamtrap — the email address never existed at all. The web site for that domain was in English. I do not speak Portuguese, and have never visited Brazil or had business connections in that country.
PositivePrint, an Internet-based print house, is sending bulk email to a spamtrap via ESP Constant Contact. The spamtrap is a long-closed email address that has not been live for years, and that rejected email for over twelve consecutive months in the interim before being re-enabled. It should not receive any bulk email any longer.
Front Porch Politics, a web portal for people who support conservative political causes in the U.S., is sending bulk emails to an email address that has not been live for several years, via conservative activist marketer and ESP ResponseBeacon.
Paperless Publishing, a new e-book publishing company, sent the attached advertisement to an old and long-closed personal email address. That email address has not been live since the early 2000s, and gets nothing but spam and an occasional misdirected personal email, which this clearly is not. The company spammed via one of the outbound customer SMTP smarthosts at GoDaddy, the domain registrar and hosting company where their domain is both registered and hosted.