Sep
27

Political Spam Today: Now Obama and Boxer Pile On…

Today’s take: several spamtrap hits from President Barack Obama, with his name front and center in the From header, four spamtrap hits from Senator Barbara Boxer, a few spams from SuperPACs, and a single spam from a peace activist group that only creeps into the category of political spam because it expresses support for a few candidates. If somebody had planned this to remind me that both political campaigns are running less-than-opt-in mailing lists, they could not have done a better job. (The Romney campaign appears to have taken the day off.)

Seen before 4:00 PM Pacific Time, in the order of receipt:

 
Spam Sample #1

Sending IP: 69.174.83.154

Actual Headers:

Received: from m154.democratsenators.org (m154.democratsenators.org [69.174.83.154])
        by <xxx> with ESMTP id <xxx>; 27 Sep 2012 14:xx:xx -0000
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Received: from [10.174.xx.xx] ([10.174.xx.xx:xx] helo=10.174.xx.xx)
        by m150.democratsenators.org (envelope-from <<xxx>@bounces.democratsenators.org>)
        (ecelerity 2.2.2.45 r(34222M)) with ESMTP
        id <xxx>; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:xx:xx -0400
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:xx:xx -0400 (EDT)
From: Barack Obama <info@dscc.org>
Reply-To: info@dscc.org
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <<xxx>@democracy.<xxx>.www.democratsenators.org>
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?<xxx>,_if_we_win=E2=80=A6?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="<xxx>"
Envelope-From: <<xxx>@bounces.democratsenators.org>
X_email_KEY: <xxx>
X-campaignid: salsademocracy<xxx>

Readable Email:

From: Barack Obama <info@dscc.org>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: <xxx>, if we win.
Reply-To: info@dscc.org

<xxx> – I’m putting everything I have into this campaign. You understand why.

<removed>

This is it. 39 days left. Let’s give it everything we’ve got:

http://dscc.org/everything

Thank you,
Barack

 
Spam Sample #2

Sending IP: 50.31.32.206

Actual Headers:

Received: from o4.email.nationbuilder.com (o4.email.nationbuilder.com [50.31.32.206])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with SMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:xx:xx -0000 (UT)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Received: by 10.37.xx.xx with SMTP id <xxx>
        Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
Received: from nationbuilder.com (unknown [10.60.xx.xx])
        by mi13 (SG) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <sendingthrough@nationbuilder.com>; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:xx:xx -0500 (CST)
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:xx:xx +0000
From: Women Warriors <<xxx>@WomenWarriorsPAC.com>
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <<xxx>@worker2.nbuild.3dna.managedmachine.com.mail>
Subject: Women Are NOT Pawns
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="<xxx>";
 charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Sendgrid-EID: <xxx>
X-Sendgrid-ID: <xxx>
Sender: Women Warriors <<xxx>=WomenWarriorsPAC.com@nationbuilder.com>
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>

Readable Email:

From: Women Warriors <<xxx>@WomenWarriorsPAC.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Women Are NOT Pawns

<xxx> –

You may have heard already that Obama’s campaign believes they don’t need to do anything to retain women’s votes, because women don’t care about stuff like a past record. Recently the Deputy Director for Obama Camnpaign told NPR in an interview that women are:

“not really concerned about what’s happened over the last four years. They really want to know what’s going to happen in the next four years. -Stephanie Cutter”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<xxx>

All I can say to that is that Stephanie Cutter must be hanging around some really stupid women. No one I know would think that thought, let alone verbalize it.

<removed>

We are Women Warriors, we choose our destiny!

Your Patriot Friend,

Tiffiny Ruegner
Executive Director, WWPAC

 
Spam Sample #3

Sending IP: 72.19.232.222

Actual Headers:

Received: from me21489.mailengine1.com (me21489.mailengine1.com [72.19.232.222])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:xx:xx -0000 (UT)
Received: by me21489.mailengine1.com (PowerMTA(TM) v3.5r14) id <xxx> 
        for <xxx>; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:xx:0xx6 -0700 
        (envelope-from <streamsendbouncer@me21489.mailengine1.com>)
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="<xxx>"
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: StreamSend - 3312
X-Report-Abuse-At: abuse@streamsend.com
X-Report-Abuse-Info: It is important to please include full email headers in the report
X-Campaign-ID: <xxx>
X-rpcampaignID:  StreamSend-<xxx>
X-Streamsendid: <xxx>.mailengine1.com
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:xx:xx -0700
From: "Bob Murphy" <govtaffairs@printing.org>
To: <xxx>
Subject: Value of PrintPAC
Message-ID: <<xxx>@me21489.mailengine1.com>

Readable Email:

From: Bob Murphy <govtaffairs@printing.org>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Value of PrintPAC

Dear <xxx>:

Recently, you should have received a flip-book from Printing Industries of America discussing the Value of Print. Today, I am contacting you on behalf of the Printing Industries of America Political Action Committee (PrintPAC) to ask for your help.

<removed>

You may fax the completed materials to 202-730-7987 or send it by mail to PrintPAC, 601 13th Street, NW Suite 350S, Washington, D.C. 20005.

<removed>

Sincerely,

Bob Murphy,
Japs-Olson Company
PrintPAC Chairman
Printing Industries of America and Its Affiliates
Your National and Local Resource

If you would prefer not to receive further email messages from Printing Industries of America, reply to this email and include your name and the word “remove” in the subject line. Please allow 10 business days for your removal request to be processed. Or click the Unsubscribe link below.Printing Industries of America is located at 200 Deer Run Road, Sewickley, PA 15143.

 
Spam Sample #4

Sending IP: 69.174.83.154

Actual Headers:

Received: from m154.democratsenators.org (m154.democratsenators.org [69.174.83.154])
        by <xxx> with ESMTP id <xxx>; 27 Sep 2012 19:xx:xx -0000
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
Received: from [10.174.xx.xx] ([10.174.xx.xx:xx] helo=10.174.xx.xx)
        by m150.democratsenators.org (envelope-from <<xxx>@bounces.democratsenators.org>)
        (ecelerity 2.2.2.45 r(34222M)) with ESMTP
        id <xxx>; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:xx:xx -0400
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:xx:xx -0400 (EDT)
From: Barbara Boxer <info@dscc.org>
Reply-To: info@dscc.org
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <<xxx>@democracy.<xxx>.www.democratsenators.org>
Subject: Shift
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="<xxx>"
Envelope-From: <<xxx>@bounces.democratsenators.org>
X_email_KEY: <xxx>
X-campaignid: salsademocracy<xxx>

Readable Email:

From: Barbara Boxer <info@dscc.org>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Shift

<xxx> – As Mitt sinks in the polls, Karl Rove is expected to shift his money into a Republican Senate takeover. And we now believe one single seat could cost us the Senate majority.

We need Elizabeth Warren to win in Massachusetts, Claire McCaskill to defeat Todd “legitimate rape” Akin in Missouri, and Tammy Baldwin to win in Wisconsin. And each race is polling within the margin of error.

<removed>

72 hours left. Please give here and we’ll triple match your gift:

http://dscc.org/72-hours

Thanks for your help,
Sen. Barbara Boxer

 

Paid for by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,
http://www.dscc.org, and not authorized by any candidate or
candidate’s committee.

 
Spam Sample #5

Sending IP: 69.25.202.120

Actual Headers:

Received: from mta-inap10.bluestatedigital.com (mta-inap10.bluestatedigital.com [69.25.202.120])
        by <xxx> with ESMTP id <xxx>; 27 Sep 2012 19:xx:xx -0000
Received: by mta-inap10.bluestatedigital.com (Postfix, from userid 506)
        id <xxx>; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:xx:xx -0400 (EDT)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
Received: from maillist-<xxx>
        by ofa0.bounce.bluestatedigital.com with local (PHPMailer);
        Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:xx:xx -0400
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:xx:xx -0400
To: <xxx>
From: Barack Obama <info@barackobama.com>
Reply-to: info@barackobama.com
Subject: <xxx>, thank you
Message-ID: <<xxx>@ofa0.bounce.bluestatedigital.com>
X-Priority: 3
X-Mailer: PHPMailer [version 1.71-blue_mailer]
X-maillist-id: <xxx>
X-rpcampaign: <xxx>
X-maillist-guid: <xxx>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://my.barackobama.com/unsubscribe?email=<xxx>>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="<xxx>"

Readable Email:

From: Barack Obama <info@barackobama.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: <xxx>, thank you
Reply-to: info@barackobama.com

<xxx> —

I want to thank you for all you’re doing for this campaign.

If we get to continue this work, it’s going to be because of you.

Next week I’m meeting up with President Clinton on the campaign trail, and we both want to thank you in person.

Donate $<xxx> or whatever you can today to be automatically entered to fly out to join us:

<removed>

Thanks,

Barack

P.S. — If there’s one person who knows how hard we need to fight in these final weeks, it’s President Clinton. I’m grateful he’ll be joining me on the trail. You should be there, too:

 
Spam Sample #6

Sending IP: 208.75.123.186

Actual Headers:

Received: from ccm186.constantcontact.com (ccm186.constantcontact.com [208.75.123.186])
        by <xxx> with ESMTP id <xxx>; 27 Sep 2012 21:xx:xx -0000
Received: from <xxx>.ad.prodcc.net (p2-pen6.ad.prodcc.net [10.252.xx.xx])
        by <xxx>.constantcontact.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:xx:xx -0400 (EDT)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
Message-ID: <<xxx>@scheduler.constantcontact.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:xx:xx -0400 (EDT)
From: New Jersey Peace Action <peacevoter2012@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: peacevoter2012@yahoo.com
Sender: New Jersey Peace Action <madelyn@njpeaceaction.ccsend.com>
To: <xxx>
Subject: Legislative Alert for Week of 9/24/12
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="<xxx>
X-Mailer: Roving Constant Contact 2009 (http://www.constantcontact.com)
List-Unsubscribe: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?<xxx>
X-Return-Path-Hint: <xxx>
X-Roving-ID: <xxx>
X-Lumos-SenderID: <xxx>
X-Roving-CampaignId: <xxx>
X-Roving-StreamId: <xxx>

Readable Email:

From: New Jersey Peace Action <peacevoter2012@yahoo.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Legislative Alert for Week of 9/24/12

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

NJ Peace Action Legislative Update
Week of 9/24/12
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dear Peace Activist,

Every two weeks, Peace Action holds a national conference call to update all the Peace Action groups about what votes are going on in Congress and what issues we need to pay attention to in Washington. What is discussed is always important to the issues we are working on here at NJ Peace Action. Today is our 7th legislative alert since we committed to sending out an e-mail after each national strategy call that outlines what was discussed and actions we can take individually and as an organization.

Toll-Free Numbers to use in contacting the Congressional switchboard number are:

800-517-5696 * 866-220-0044 * 888-784-0527

Thanks for taking the time to make a call or send a letter.

Sincerely,
Jess Camacho, Peace Voter Coordinator
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<removed>

NJ Peace Action | 673 Bloomfield Avenue, 2nd floor | Bloomfield | NJ | 07003

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