An organization that calls itself “AAA ClubDeal,” and that claims to represent AAA Southern New England, just sent a bulk email to an email address that, as best I can tell, never existed. For readers from outside of the United States, “AAA” is the American Automobile Association, a longstanding advocacy group for automobile owners and drivers that also sells insurance and runs a large travel agency. The ESP is ExactTarget.
The re-election campaign of U.S. Congressman Alan Grayson of Florida apparently learned nothing from the backlash against its first spam three days ago, because it spammed again today and hit the same spamtrap as it did then. It has switched ESPs, from Salsalabs, the ESP side of liberal U.S. political activist group Wired for Change, to ExactTarget.
Yet another cruise company is spamming my elderly mother’s email address offering deals on cruises: Global Voyages Group <globalvoyagesgroup.com>. I’ve blogged previously about the large quantities of cruise- and travel-related spam to Mum. At this point I am certain that her email address has been placed on a “targeted list”. The ESP is (once again) ExactTarget.
Best Buy, a large U.S.-based retailer of electronic goods, just sent a bulk email to an email address that closed in 2007. The ESP is ExactTarget.
It appears that the list that Celebrity Cruises is using has itself gone on a ramble. For the past few months my mother’s email address has been inundated with email advertisements for cruises from a number of firms. The most recent is an organization in Scottsdale, Arizona (go figure!) that calls itself Our Vacation Center. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Several months after I first posted about spam from Broderbund, the company is still regularly sending bulk email advertisements to the same email address as before. Careful examination of the spamtrap indicates that it was probably never a valid email address. It receives no other email except botnet and other criminal types of spam, and the logon portion of the email address shows up regularly in dictionary attacks. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Moritz Cadillac, an auto dealership in Arlington, Texas, is sending bulk email to an email address that closed in 2005. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Life Technologies Corporation is spamming addresses found on PubMed. The ESP is ExactTarget.
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Either St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, or San Antonio printer Accu-Print, is sending bulk email advertisements to a spamtrap of mine that has never heard from either of them before. The From header say’s that the sender is St. Mary’s, while the message body states that the message was sent by Accu-Print. The spamtrap in question, if it ever existed at all, was closed in 2005. The ESP is ExactTarget.