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Over three months after I blogged about spam from Bell Institute, the research arm of General Mills, to one of my spamtraps, and over two months since the spam resumed after a Bell Institute representative claimed that the problem was fixed, the spam from Bell Institute to that spamtrap continues. The spam started in mid-November 2011; Bell Institute had not emailed that particular spamtrap since it was re-enabled after its timeout period. The ESP is SilverPop.

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Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, a research wing of multinational food giant General Mills, is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2007. Bell Institute has not emailed this email address since it was re-enabled after its timeout period in 2010. Either Bell Institute is emailing a list that has been allowed to lie fallow for years, has failed to process bounces, or is using a purchased list. The ESP is SilverPop.

This issue was marked “resolved”, but the spam started up again at the end of November 2011.

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