Chase Bank is sending advertising emails to an email address that has been closed for many years, claiming that the owner is “an Amazon.com Business Rewards Visa cardmember”. The ESP is Acxiom Digital.
Sprint Nextel is mailing an email address that was closed in 2008, and after its timeout period was re-enabled in 2010 as a spamtrap. The ESP is Acxiom Digital. This looks like spam, but it isn’t. This is why.
Hewlett Packard is mailing an email address that was closed in 2007, and after its timeout period was re-enabled in 2009 as a spamtrap. The ESP is Acxiom Digital.
Days Inn, a popular budget/family hotel chain that is part of the Wyndham Hotels and Resorts Group, is sending bulk email to a long-closed email address. That email address rejected all email at SMTP time for about fifteen months before being re-enabled as a spamtrap. The ESP is Acxiom Digital.
Banking and travel company American Express is sending bulk email to a long-closed email address. This email address has been closed since 2002, and for a three year period rejected all email at SMTP time. In the years since it became a spamtrap, American Express has not contacted this email address. The ESP is Acxiom Digital (formerly Digital Impact).