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Pixel Designz, a custom web site design firm, is sending email advertisements to two spamtraps, neither of which has been live since before 2006. Neither spamtrap has received email from this company since exiting their timeout period and being turned into spamtraps. Since the domain pixeldesignz.com was created in 2010, neither of these email addresses could have subscribed to this company’s list when they were live. The only explanations I can come up with for this are two separate typoed email addresses (not likely) or a purchased list. The ESP is Sendgrid.

Sending IP: 50.31.38.196

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from o1.email.pixeldesignz.com (o1.email.pixeldesignz.com [50.31.38.196])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with SMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
Received: by 10.8.xx.xx with SMTP id <xxx>
        Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (unknown [<xxx>])
        by <xxx>.sendgrid.net (SG) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="<xxx>"
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: Brent Nicholson <brent@pixeldesignz.com>
To: <xxx>
Reply-To: brent@pixeldesignz.com
Subject: RE: Website Promotions
Message-ID: <<xxx>@<xxx>.sendgrid.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
X-Sendgrid-EID: <xxx>
X-Sendgrid-ID: <xxx>
list-unsubscribe: <xxx>

Readable Email:

From: Brent Nicholson <brent@pixeldesignz.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: RE: Website Promotions
Reply-To: brent@pixeldesignz.com

Hello,

My name is Brent Nicholson. I work from my home in Los Angeles and I specialize in web design and Internet marketing. I work closely with a local web developer who also specializes in Internet marketing and script development. Together we created a few online marketing services that are designed to help businesses gain maximum online exposure and ultimately increase their profits. I wanted to know if you’d be interested in any of our services.

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Click here to read more – http://pixeldesignz.com/internet-marketing-specials.html

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Please call or email me if you have any questions or comments.

Brent Nicholson
PixelDesignz.com
www.pixeldesignz.com
(310) 910-1002