Nov
20

Nancy Pelosi: Urging a Spamtrap to Donate to the Democratic Party

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, emailing via the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), is urging an email address that has not been live since before the previous presidential election to donate to the Democratic Party. The DCCC is sending a *lot* of spam to a number of spamtrap email addresses of mine, so much that I’m surprised they haven’t been listed by a major blacklist yet. The ESP is Blue State Digital.

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Oct
25

DCCC: Thanking a Spamtrap for its Support!

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), an organization within the U.S. Democratic political party who was reported for spamming here a few days ago, is now sending bulk email to thank an email address that was closed long before the 2008 presidential campaign for supporting Democratic causes and candidates in 2010 and 2012. Go figure. :/ As before, the ESP is Blue State Digital.

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Oct
19

DCCC: Mailing Long-Closed Email Addresses

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), an organization affiliated with the U.S. Democratic political party, is spamming email addresses that have been closed for years, and in the interim bounced email at SMTP time with a 500-level rejection for over twelve consecutive months. In other words, these email addresses are spamtraps. If the DCCC continues to send bulk email to them in the quantities that I am seeing, they are likely to end up in trouble with anti-spam blacklists.

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