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Sometime last week Sony Mobile, the cell phone subsidiary of Sony Corporation, started spamming several of my spamtraps, some of them email addresses that have been closed for years, and some email addressees that never existed at all. The spam dribbled out, two or three per day, until today. Today they hit over two dozen spamtraps that they had not emailed previously. Their ESP is Acxiom Digital.

The spams were in many European languages, but none that I checked were in English. Another blogger on this site received what appears to be the same spam from Sony Mobile previously and commented about it here. What I am seeing cannot be explained except by a purchased list or several, and much dirtier purchased lists than a legitimate business would normally touch with a ten foot pole. Acxiom Digital is a reputable ESP, not normally party to mailings to such dirty lists. I wonder whether they are aware of just how badly their customer is behaving?

Sending IP: 209.11.164.62

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from client-1-62.delivery.net (client-1-62.delivery.net [209.11.164.62])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:xx:xx +0200 (EET)
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
Received: from [192.168.xx.xx] ([192.168.xx.xx:xx] helo=<xxx>)
        by <xxx> (envelope-from <news@sonymobileemail.com>)
        (ecelerity 2.2.2.36 r(26875/<xxx>)) with ESMTP
        id <xxx>; Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:xx:xx -0700
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:xx:xx -0700 (PDT)
From: Sony Mobile <news@sonymobileemail.com>
Reply-to: news@sonymobileemail.com
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <xxx>
Subject: O futuro dos smartphones ficou ainda melhor
Errors-to: news@sonymobileemail.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
X-eid: <xxx>
X-pid: <xxx>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:news@sonymobileemail.com?subject=unsubscribe<xxx>>

Readable Email:

From: Sony Mobile <news@sonymobileemail.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: O futuro dos smartphones ficou ainda melhor

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Caro/a Customer
O com prazer que informamos que a Sony Ericsson tornou-se na Sony Mobile Communications e é agora propriedade total da Sony, passando a fazer parte da Marca Sony. Desta forma, os smartphones Xperia(TM) passam a integrar a aliciante gama de produtos e serviços da Sony.Tal mudança não afectará o seu serviço ou garantia*, mas agora receberá o benefício adicional de ter o mundo da Sony na ponta dos seus dedos, criando as melhores experiências de entretenimento num smartphone.

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Atentamente,
Steve Walker,
Director de Marketing de Sony Mobile Communications

*Tenha em atenção que poderão ocorrer algumas pequenas alterações aos termos e condições da sua conta, visto que todas as referências à Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications passam agora a Sony Mobile Communications. Para ver os mais recentes termos e condições, clique aqui. Para verificar, actualizar ou remover os seus dados, inicie sessão aqui.