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Nigerian tabloid site Pulse.ng has been emailing over 100 of my spamtraps daily for months. Enough of the spamtraps are pristine spamtraps that they must have purchased a list or hired an email appender. (Unless they scraped the list themselves, no other explanation makes sense.) Their ESP is EMarSys.

Although this appears to be a legitimate news site, this was blatant, deliberate spam to a purchased or email appended list. EMarSys cannot afford to ignore this sort of spam activity if it wants to retain the reputation of a legitimate email service provider.

Sending IPs: 195.54.173.175-195.54.173.178

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Readable Email:

From: Pulse.ng Live <info@newsletter-pulse.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Your Daily Stories: Death Toll Hits Over 1, 900, Mount Everest Shaken + More News

26 April, 2015

Modification of Male Mosquito DNA Could Halt Malaria Transmission

Oxitec non-executive director, Luke Alphey has come up with the idea of modifying the DNA
of disease-carrying male insects that seek to mate with female insects in the wild.

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