Oct
22
Onyx Solar: Scraped Addresses? :(
Integrated solar photovoltaics construction company Onyx Solar, a company whose field fascinates me and whose mailings I could have seen myself asking for, is spamming role addresses (email addresses assigned to a role, such as sales or webmaster, instead of a person) and other email addresses that were scraped from old web pages. They are using FAGMS.de, a subsidiary of ESP Cheetahmail, itself a subsidiary of Experian. This isn’t a list of addresses that I would expect a legitimate company to be sending bulk email to, or an ESP not to have immediately caught as dirty. What happened?