Boston Cleaning Company: Offering Cleaning Services to a Spamtrap

Boston Cleaning Company, a Boston, Massachusetts-based commercial janitorial service, is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2008. The email address in question has not previously received bulk email from this company, so an unconfirmed web form signup (either typoed or malicious), or a purchased list seem to be the only reasonable explanations. The sending ESP is IContact.

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(Resolved): Marketing Legal Training to a Spamtrap

This issue has been resolved. The blog remains posted because blogs shouldn’t disappear, to make sure that Google and other search engines and archives get the update, and in hopes that other people can learn something from it and the comments. 🙂

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ColorFX: Selling Printing Services to a Spamtrap

Online printing company ColorFX is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2007. The email address belonged to a small company that has not been in business for almost five years. From mid-2008 through the end of 2009, the email address rejected all email with a 500-level error; it should have long since been removed from any properly-run bulk email list. The ESP is IContact.

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MarketTaker: Spamming a Closed Email Address

Stock options mentoring site Market Taker Mentoring LLC is sending bulk email to a long-closed email address. The ESP is Constant Contact.

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