Solmicro: Advertising ERP Solutions to a Spamtrap

Solmicro, a vendor of ERP (enterprise resource planning) management solutions, is sending bulk email to an email address that has never existed except in the fertile mind of a spammer who made it up and put it on a list for sale. Either Solmicro is accepting unconfirmed web form subscriptions (along with the attendant typos and third-party signups), or Solmicro purchased a list. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a division of Experian.

The legal statement at the end of this email indicating that the sender followed Spanish law applies only in Spain, where Solmicro is headquartered. Presumably Solmicro’s lawyers told them this. Certainly Cheetahmail knows this. I can see no reason to include that statement other than to confuse recipients of this email into believing that the senders had the right to send it whether it was requested or not. (For the record, no, the senders did NOT have any such right.)

Sending IP: 178.248.184.70

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from evo1mta1a70.emstechnology2.net (evo1mta1a70.emstechnology2.net [178.248.184.70])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAEA87C0135
        for <xxx>; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
Received: by evo1mta1a64.emstechnology2.net id <xxx> 
        for <xxx>; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:xx:xx +0100 
        (envelope-from <xxx>)
From: "Solmicro" <envios@solmicro.com>
X-EMSCustId: <xxx>
X-Mailer: EMS
Reply-To: envios@solmicro.com
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <xxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:xx:xx +0100
X-Priority: 3
Subject: Disfrute de un Bono SPA junto con las mejores Soluciones Profesionales para su empresa
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Readable Email:

From: Solmicro <envios@solmicro.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Disfrute de un Bono SPA junto con las mejores Soluciones Profesionales para su empresa
Reply-To: envios@solmicro.com

Nuevo Solmicro-eXpertis ERP-CRM

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En cumplimiento de lo establecido en los artículos 5.5 y 30.2 de la Ley Orgánica 15/1999. de 13 de diciembre, de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal (LOPD), le informamos que el responsable de esta acción comercial es Solmicro Organización y Software S.L. con dirección en Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia – Edificio 500, 48160 Derio, Vizcaya. Los datos utilizados en esta promoción han sido obtenidos de las fuentes accesibles al público establecidas en el articulo 3.1 de la LOPD y/o a través de nuestra relación comercial. Asimismo le informamos que si desea acceder, rectificar, cancelar u oponerse al tratamiento de sus datos, puede enviar un correo electrónico a marketing@solmicro.com y procederemos a la atención inmediata de su solicitud.

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