Walmart Brazil: Spamming from Microsoft CloudApp IPs

The Brazil division of US-based retailing giant Walmart is spamming purchased or email appended lists from Microsoft’s CloudApp service. Walmart Brazil (as opposed to Walmart itself) has a long record of spamming dirty purchased lists. Walmart has dropped the ball enforcing minimally acceptable email marketing standards on its badly-behaved subsidiary.

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Skype: Emailing Upgrade Notices to Long-Closed Email Addresses

Microsoft Skype sent a massive emailing out warning customers in Scandanavia that their Skype versions were soon to be phased out and urging them to upgrade. The mailing hit around 50 spamtraps. The ESP is Acxiom.

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Microsoft wants spamtraps to help them focus on their customers and partners

Microsoft wants to ask spamtraps for help on focusing on their customers and partners. The ESP is ExactTarget. The content of the message below is in Swedish.

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The Attack of the 800 Pound Finnish Gorilla: Microsoft (Finland) ignores opt-out

Microsoft’s Finland office keeps spamming outdated and erroneous addresses at the atro.fi domain. The ESP is ExactTarget. I’ve told Microsoft in September 2010 (to the explicitly named feedback address in that message), and tried again in February 2011 (to postmaster and abuse at one of their domains registered for a specific event; neither existed). Duh. Perhaps the ESP can lend a helping hand.

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