Mar
16
Microsoft wants spamtraps to help them focus on their customers and partners
Microsoft wants to ask spamtraps for help on focusing on their customers and partners. The ESP is ExactTarget. The content of the message below is in Swedish.
Mar
13
Microsoft: Deals on Windows 7 for Spamtraps
Microsoft is up to two spamtraps now; it has sent unsolicited bulk advertising email to two different email addresses that have not been live since before 2008. One of those email addresses has received Microsoft spam previously; the other has not received email from Microsoft since before it became a spamtrap. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Mar
08
Disney Destinations: The Happiest Spam on Earth?
Disney Destinations, the travel business of media and entertainment empire Disney Corporation, sent an advertising email to a long-closed email address today. This spamtrap hasn’t heard from Disney before, at least not since it became a spamtrap. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Mar
01
Concord Music Group: Announcing a Jazz Video Release to a Spamtrap
Concord Music Group (CMG), a studio that produces and markets many styles of music, sent a bulk advertising email to a spamtrap earlier today, announcing the release of a music video by one of its jazz performers. CMG has not sent any type of email to this spamtrap (or any of my spamtraps) previously. If the spamtrap in question was ever a live email address, it was closed before 2006. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Feb
27
Vidal Sassoon: Teaching a spamtrap how to cut hair?
The Sassoon Academy wants to sell a video of cutting-edge hair techniques to spamtraps. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Feb
08
Family Dollar: Offering Family Values to a Spamtrap
Family Dollar, a U.S.-based chain that sells basic merchandise at discount prices, last night sent a bulk advertising email to an email address that cannot have been live after 2007 if it ever existed. Family Dollar has not sent any type of email to this spamtrap (or any of my spamtraps) previously. (The stores are located east of the Mississippi; I had to search Google to find out what they were.) The ESP is ExactTarget.
Jan
24
The Attack of the 800 Pound Finnish Gorilla: Microsoft (Finland) ignores opt-out
Microsoft’s Finland office keeps spamming outdated and erroneous addresses at the atro.fi domain. The ESP is ExactTarget. I’ve told Microsoft in September 2010 (to the explicitly named feedback address in that message), and tried again in February 2011 (to postmaster and abuse at one of their domains registered for a specific event; neither existed). Duh. Perhaps the ESP can lend a helping hand.
Jan
20
Hotels.com Thinks That I Need a Vacation
They’re right. 🙂 But their uncanny ability to read my mind does not justify spamming a personal email address. The ESP was ExactTarget.
Jan
17
Try It Local: Local Business Deals for a Spamtrap?
Try It Local, a “deals” web site that offers discounts on products and services of local merchants to its users, is all of the sudden sending bulk email to an email address that closed in 2005. This service has not sent email to this email address previously, at least not since it ended its timeout period and became a spamtrap in 2008. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Jan
14
Computer Discount Warehouse: Sending to 6+ Year Closed Role Address
Computer and software retailer Computer Discount Warehouse (CDW) is sending bulk email to a role address closed in 2005. Although it never sent email or signed onto lists, this particular role address receives a great deal of snowshoe spam and a respectable amount of mainsleaze spam. This is probably the case because it doesn’t have a standard role address name and is therefore rarely suppressed or detected by the usual sanity checking routines at ESPs. The ESP is ExactTarget.