Dec
12

InteleTravel.com: Sending Travel Agent Information to Spamtraps?

InteleTravel.com, a reputable travel industry organization that recruits and supports home-based travel agents, is sending bulk emails to email addresses that either never existed or have been closed for years. None of the email addresses in question appear to have belonged to travel agents. One was at a company not in the travel business that has long since gone out of business. So how did these email addresses get on InteleTravel.com’s list? The ESP is Vertical Response.

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Oct
11

InteleTravel.com: Just *how* old is your list?

InteleTravel.com, an online travel agency, is spamming two years-dead email addresses via ESP VerticalResponse. I can’t rule out the possibility that the owners of both of these email addresses might have requested the email four or five years ago, but I do know that they cannot have responded to any offer in the past four years. I also know that any attempt to mail either of these email addresses resulted in a 500-level rejection for a period of over twelve consecutive months in 2007 and 2008. InteleTravel.com either has ignored bounces and completely failed to monitor or remove unresponsive email addresses, or they purchased a list.

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