May
31

EUWIFO

Still (see earlier articles) spamming criminally,

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Feb
21

EUWIFO, European Economic Research Institute, Zurich: Still spamming Finnish businessesthe world with survey invitationsphishing

This is a refresh of the earlier post on the same spamming operation and spammer.  Their Web of Trust rating is still about as poor as it can be.  The McAfee SiteAdvisor contains comments suggesting it’s a phish.  I can’t say I have information to disprove that.  Their spam has been noticed in Romania, too, and even as far as in Japan.  Would everybody receiving this spam please let Netrics and DomainFactory know.

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Nov
15

EUWIFO, European Economic Research Institute, Zurich: Spamming Finnish businesses with survey invitations

This has been going on for a long time.  I think I started receiving it in April 2012.  I opted my own biz address out of it during the summer, but I continue to see the same spam in spamtraps.  It was also discussed on a Finnish LinkedIn group.  Some of the spamtraps constitute outdated and erroneous personal information, the processing of which is completely illegal under Section 9, Paragraph 2 of the Personal Data Act. There is no indication of the address source, but certain key facts suggest it might be Bisnode or one of the other more international players who deal in Finnish leads.
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