Apr
02

Upromise: Sending a “Membership Notice” to a Spamtrap

Upromise, a college funding program operated by U.S. financial services company Sallie Mae, today sent a “membership notice” to a spamtrap email address that has never before heard from either Upromise or Sallie Mae. I have seen a great deal of spam for loan offers and college financial assistance to that spamtrap, which appears to have been placed on a (likely e-pended) list supposedly targeted at would-be college students and sold to all and sundry. :/ The ESP is Acxiom Digital.

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Feb
21

Gerber Life: Selling Baby Life Insurance to an E-Pended Address?

Gerber Life Insurance Company, an affiliate of the U.S.-based company that makes baby food, has started sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that has been closed for years. This email address had not received any email from Gerber prior to a couple of weeks ago. In addition, the name in the email does not match that of the original owner of the email address, which is usually a reliable sign of an e-pended email address. The ESP is Acxiom Digital.

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Jan
19

Cheetahmail: Giving Up Email Append (YES!)

Today Ben Isaacson, the deliverability and compliance manager at Cheetahmail, posted a blog on the Cheetahmail web site, “A CheetahMail New Years’ Resolution: Giving Up Email Append”.

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Jan
16

Academic Insight: Spamtraps Don’t Take the SAT or ACT

Academic Insight, a U.S.-based academic test preparation service, is sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that was closed in 2003. This spamtrap has also not previously received email from this company. The ESP is Vertical Response.

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Jan
13

True Wholesale Houses: Urging a Spamtrap to Invest in Real Estate

Residential real estate investment firm True Wholesale Houses is sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that was closed in 2003. The firm has a plausible, but incorrect, name associated with the email address, which normally indicates an e-pended list. This email address has also not previously received email from this firm. The ESP is Sendgrid.

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Dec
04

Just Fabulous: Stylish Shoes for a Spamtrap?

Shoe matching service Just Fabulous is sending bulk email to an email address that has never existed (a pure spamtrap). This particular spamtrap appears to have recently been added to an e-pended list; it has started to receive snowshoe and mainsleaze spam in significant quantities in the past three months, almost all of it using a first name that is a plausible deduction from the spamtrap itself. The ESP is ExactTarget.

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Nov
30

IMAGINiT Technologies: Emailing an E-Pended Role Address

IMAGINiT Technologies, a subsidiary of Rand Worldwide, is sending bulk email to a role address. This email address was used to receive email, but not to send email; it would never have subscribed to receive email from any person or company. The name in the email is not associated with this role address; it appears to have been added later, likely via an e-pending process. The ESP is Eloqua.

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Nov
28

Exposures: Emailing an E-Pended Email Address?

Exposures, a photograph-based personalized gifts seller affiliated with catalog retailer Miles Kimball, is sending bulk email to the same spamtrap as Miles Kimball and another Miles Kimball affiliate. The ESP is E-Dialog.

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Nov
27

Miles Kimball: Selling Christmas Gifts to an E-Pended Spamtrap?

Catalog retailer Miles Kimball is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2007. The name in the bulk email is female, but the email address before it was closed belonged to a man, which normally indicates an e-pended list. In addition, Miles Kimball’s web site shows “As We Change” as a preferred partner. This is the same e-pended email address that As We Change hit a few weeks ago; I blogged about that at the time. Miles Kimball appears to be sharing the same e-pended list with them. The ESP is E-Dialog.

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Nov
24

Topps: Three Time Loosers

That settles it. There is no intelligent life left at Topps. A month after their first mention on the MainSleaze blog and weeks after an SBL listing for their spam, they are *still* spamming. Topps is spamming from its own IPs. If they’d been using an ESP, after the SBL listing the mailings would have stopped at least until they could clean their list and convince Spamhaus to give them another chance.

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