Citibank: Emailing Sensitive Private Credit Card Information to a Spamtrap

First Chase Bank sent marketing emails that contained personal names and credit card information to spamtraps. Now Citibank is doing the same thing. Today Citibank sent a bulk marketing email to an email address that, if it ever existed at all, has been closed since 2007. The email contained a name and the last four digits of a credit card number. Either Citibank is deliberately including made-up “customer” information to make bulk marketing email look more legitimate (which I doubt), or Citibank has badly mismanaged its customer list *AND* (worse) is including sensitive personal information in marketing emails that are going to unconfirmed and incorrect email addresses. The ESP is Epsilon Interactive via its ESP Bigfoot Interactive.

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Chase Bank: A Spamtrap is “an Amazon.com Business Rewards Visa cardmember”?

Chase Bank is sending advertising emails to an email address that has been closed for many years, claiming that the owner is “an Amazon.com Business Rewards Visa cardmember”. The ESP is Acxiom Digital.

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Viking River Cruises: Selling Travel to a Closed Role Address?

Viking River Cruises, a highly-rated cruise company, is sending bulk email advertisements to an email address that can’t have requested them since 2007, and probably never did. They sent this email via ESP Epsilon Interactive, also called Bigfoot Interactive.

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Kraft Foods: Emailing Spamtraps

The Canadian branch of Kraft Foods, Kraft Canada, is spamming several email addresses that either never existed or have been closed for several years, with the usual intervening twelve months or more of bouncing all email at SMTP time. Their ESP is Epsilon Interactive.

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Better Homes & Gardens: Emailing a Spamtrap

Iconic U.S. magazine Better Homes & Gardens is spamming an email address that appears to have never existed at all via ESP Epsilon Interactive.

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