Nov
04

PrintCountry: Still Spamming Purchased Lists :/

A few weeks ago I blogged about a spamtrap hit by PrintCountry, an online printer ink and printing supplies seller. PrintCountry is still sending bulk email to the same long-closed email address, and is now hitting an additional email address that as far as I know has never existed at all. The email states that both email addresses was added to the system a short time ago. This is not possible; neither email address has been live since 2006, so there was nobody who could have subscribed that email address to any list in the past few weeks.

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Oct
29

Why Companies Shouldn’t Accept Unconfirmed Web Subscriptions

Super Hot Casino Games, an online gambling web site, is sending bulk email to <spamtrap@spambouncer.org>. Really. 🙂 That’s the old public spam reporting address at spambouncer.org, used mostly by users of the long-unmaintained SpamBouncer spam filtering program. That email address is probably in every decent suppression list and listwashing list on the planet. Super Hot Casino Games is obviously not validating subscriptions on their web site.

The ESP is BlueHornet, a subsidiary of ESP Digital River. Has BlueHornet abandoned all sanity checking on client email lists as well?

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Oct
25

PrintCountry: Spamming Purchased Lists?

PrintCountry, an online printer ink and printing supplies seller, is sending bulk email to a long-closed email address. The email states that this email address was added to the system about three weeks ago. This is not possible; this email address has been closed since 2006. Either PrintCountry accepts unverified subscriptions and somebody typoed an email address and domain, or PrintCountry purchased a list. The ESP is BlueHornet, a division of Digital River.

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