Spirit Airlines: Spamtraps Fly? Who Knew….

Spirit Airlines, a discount airline based in Miami, is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2008. Spirit Airlines may not confirm web form subscriptions (which allows typoed and forged email addresses to be added to its list), may ignore bounces (which allows old/closed email addresses to remain on a list), or may have purchased a list. The ESP is Yesmail, a division of InfoGroup.

Sending IP: 206.165.242.7

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from spiritair-7.spiritair.tracker.postdirect.com (spiritair-7.spiritair.tracker.postdirect.com [206.165.242.7])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:xx:xx PST
From: "Spirit Airlines" <promotions@email.spiritairlines.com>
Subject: Cool Coupon Savings for up to $35* Off Your Next Vacation!
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <SpiritAirlines.<xxx>@email.spiritairlines.com>
X-Vitals: <xxx>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:spiritair<xxx>@email.spiritairlines.com?subject=unsubscribe>
X-Header-Versions: SpiritAirlines.v@email.spiritairlines.com
Reply-To: SpiritAirlines.<xxx>@email.spiritairlines.com
X-Header-CompanyDBUserName: spiritair
X-Header-MasterId: <xxx>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="==========<xxx>====="

Readable Email:

From: Spirit Airlines <promotions@email.spiritairlines.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Cool Coupon Savings for up to $35* Off Your Next Vacation!
Reply-To: SpiritAirlines.<xxx>@email.spiritairlines.com

We hope you enjoy receiving special offers from Spirit Airlines.

If you need help or have a question, please visit the HELP section on spirit.com. Please do not reply to this email to unsubscribe or update your account. Please use the links below.

Privacy is a concern for Spirit Airlines and we will not send unsolicited emails. This is sale information which you opted to receive when you requested a subscription to Spirit Airlines specials. You are currently subscribed to receive information from Spirit Airlines at <xxx>. You may unsubscribe or update your email address at anytime.

Thank you for choosing to receive promotional information from Spirit Airlines. You are currently subscribed to receive information at <xxx>.

View the Spirit Airlines Privacy Policy:
http://link.spiritairlines.com/u.d?<xxx>

Unsubscribe from Spirit Airlines e-mails:
http://email.spiritairlines.com/unsubscribe.jsp?<xxx>

Modify your account or update your e-mail address:
http://link.spiritairlines.com/u.d?<xxx>

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Spirit Airlines, 2800 Executive Way, Miramar, FL 33025

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