Aug
28
UpCloud – competition is fierce and business prospects dire
Earlier today, the Finnish cloud hosting company UpCloud Ltd (www, biz reg, responsible people) decided they’d start looking for new customers by spamming.
Apr
21
Newest conman on the Estonian/Finnish B2B spam block: Ville Ryynänen, Ryynänen Consulting OÜ
Would you buy accounting services from somebody whose hand is already in your pocket? I wouldn’t, either. Rule #0: Spam is theft.
The winner this time is Mr Ville Ryynänen, of Ryynänen Consulting OÜ (see corporate and personal LinkedIn profiles; corporate website, inforegister B2B info), who asks Finnish owners of Estonian corporations whether they are happy with their current accountants and if they wouldn’t like to switch.
Aug
29
iZettle: Enticing spamtraps to start accepting credit card payments
During August 2015, and possibly earlier, the Swedish provider of lightweight card payment solutions, iZettle, has enlisted the services of Roy Knows Best, also known as Salesleads Scandinavia AB, for their advertising.
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Aug
27
Suomitotal.com: New anonymous Finnish B2B spam list vendor
Some time ago, a new spam list vendor came to our sights. They are suomitotal.com (anonymized domain registration) and they are mailing out of Elastic Email, selling B2B lists for spamming, predictably by spamming.
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Aug
19
Estonian spammers targeting Finland: Martin Anderson / All-Tec Services OÜ
I’ve only just received a spam from [85.222.235.134] to an address that has to be harvested from the web pages of the company. I did a little looking up and it turns out that the spammer is Martin Anderson, of the Estonian company All-Tec Services OÜ, who is already familiar to the local spamhound.
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Mar
31
Scaevola Oy: New Finnish B2B spammer
Scaevola Oy (www, biz reg, responsible persons, d/b/a Lindenleaf, which is the English translation of the surname of the owner, Heikki Lehmuslehti) has entered the Finnish B2B spam field with a spam that was sent to addresses harvested from HTML comments on websites.
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Aug
24
New Finnish spam list vendor: yritysguru.fi
The self titled “Business Guru” (www in Finnish, www in English at alternate domain) is selling the standard fare, B2B spam lists. The yritysguru.fi domain is registered to Mikael Suominen as a private person. The finnishcompanyregistry.com domain is WhoisGuard Protected. The actual hosting of both is cloaked by CloudFlare.
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Aug
01
Using spam as a research tool: Dr Marek Matejun, Technical University of Lodz, Poland
Duh. The university administration has been alerted, and so have QuestionPro, whose Terms of Use forbid spam… of course.