SC Fuels: Purchased List? Sure Looks Like It….

SC Fuels, a national distributor of automotive fuel and home heating oil, is spamming an email address that was closed in 2002, at least a year before its own domain was registered. I see no way that an email address closed in 2002 and not re-enabled as a spamtrap til 2005 could be on this sender’s list except because of a typo combined with failure to confirm subscriptions, or a purchased list. The ESP is Constant Contact.

Sending IP: 208.75.123.135

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from ccm135.constantcontact.com (ccm135.constantcontact.com [208.75.123.135])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Tue,  1 Nov 2011 13:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
Received: from <xxx> (<xxx>.prodcc.net [10.252.<xxx>.<xxx>])
        by <xxx>.constantcontact.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Tue,  1 Nov 2011 14:xx:xx -0400 (EDT)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
Message-ID: <xxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:xx:xx -0400 (EDT)
From: SC Fuels <heatingoil@scfuels.com>
Reply-To: heatingoil@scfuels.com
To: <xxx>
Subject: Free Heating Oil? You must be kidding...
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="----=_Part_<xxx>"
X-Mailer: Roving Constant Contact 2009 (http://www.constantcontact.com)
List-Unsubscribe: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?<xxx>
X-Roving-ID: <xxx>
X-Lumos-SenderID: <xxx>
X-Roving-CampaignId: <xxx>
X-Roving-StreamId: <xxx>

Readable Email:

From: SC Fuels <heatingoil@scfuels.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Free Heating Oil? You must be kidding…
Reply-To: heatingoil@scfuels.com

Having trouble viewing this email?
Click here
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?<xxx>

Hi, just a reminder that you’re receiving this email because you have expressed
an interest in SC Fuels. Don’t forget to add heatingoil@scfuels.com to your address
book so we’ll be sure to land in your inbox! You may unsubscribe
http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?<xxx>
if you no longer wish to receive our emails.

<removed>

This email was sent to <xxx> by heatingoil@scfuels.com.

Update Profile/Email Address
http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?<xxx>

Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe(TM)
http://visitor.constantcontact.com/do?<xxx>

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SC Fuels | 1702 Pennsylvania Ave | Bremerton | WA | 98337

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