Jul
17

SH-Group Oy d/b/a Data Media Gazelle / kuriero.fi: Yet another small-time spammer for hire from Finland

SH-Group Oy, also doing business as Data Media Gazelle, under the domain name kuriero.fi, is spamming addresses found on “public Internet pages and Fonecta Kohdistamiskone B2B” with ads for their spamming service.  How anybody bothers setting up one in this day and age is beyond me.  I wish you all could read their press release (only in Finnish), it’s got practically every item in Rhyolite Software’s excellent Spam Is That Which We Don’t Do list. I particularly like the argument that apparently spam is environmentally friendly.

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Mar
07

Vistaprint in cahoots with Fonecta

Vistaprint are spamming, as always. Fonecta (specifically their Kontaktikone branch) are helping, as always. The addresses so targeted are severely outdated, as always. Nothing new under the sun. A marriage made in heaven, or in Hell, whichever you prefer.

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Nov
25

Saunalahti and Fonecta: Still at it

In reference to my Nov 15 post on the topic.

It’s illegal spam.  The plaintext content does not indicate the address source (mandatory requirement as per law), nor a way of getting removed from the mailing list. The HTML content may indicate an address source, but I just can’t view it with Mutt…

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Nov
19

Kauppalehti: legally B2B spamming

Kauppalehti, a publication of Alma Media plc and the nearest equivalent Finland has to Financial Times, is spamming businesses’ contact addresses that JM Tieto Oy sold them.

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Oct
12

Fonecta Oy: Emailing dead addresses, not respecting opt-out

Fonecta Oy, a Finnish media agency, continues to spam addresses at a domain that has changed hands two years ago via their CRM tool despite endless e-mail opt-outs, phone calls, etc. Fonecta have assured the domain owner on a number of occasions that all old addresses have been removed, but actions speak louder than words: the spam continues.

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