King Ice, an online retailer of hip-hop jewelry for men, today sent a bulk email advertisement to an email address that has never heard from it before, and that was closed in 2004. The email makes no claim to opt-in, and provides no postal address or contact information for the advertiser that is visible in the text portion of the email. (Most of the email consists of remotely-loaded graphics.) The ESP is Campaigner.
Rentalo, a vacation rentals portal, just sent a bulk email advertisement to an email address that has been closed for at least eight years. This email address has not previously received email from Rentalo, so I wonder why it is now? The ESP is Campaigner.
Motifolio, a site that provides biomedical PowerPoint toolkits for presentations, is spamming. Their ESP is the Canadian-based Campaigner. As an aside, Canada has relatively new anti-spam legislation that is among the best in the world. It simply prohibits all unsolicited commercial email. Let’s see what Campaigner make of this spam, given their terms and conditions, anti-spam policy, and said legislation.