Dec
19
Dec
13
Finink.com: Selling printer inks to spamtraps / Oraakkeli.net: New Finnish B2B spammer
There’s a new player in town, Oraakkeli Oy (www, biz reg). They figure they’re doing something better than their competitors (that is, everybody in Finland spamming B2B lists completely indiscriminately) by spamming CEOs only. Their front page proudly says something about how they provide targeted B2B advertising and have a list of 35,944 CEOs from the 168,000 or so Finnish businesses in their list. The customer whose pitch they’re touting to “CEOs” is Finink.com (www, biz reg), an online retailer of printer inks.
Dec
11
Koulutuspalvelu Vaikutus: Selling education to spamtraps
Koulutuspalvelu Vaikutus (www, biz reg), who share at least one player with a spammer we already know, PowerCompetence, are spamming to sell their courses.
The ESP is NetMonitor (an unregistered d/b/a of Developer’s Helsinki Oy Ab), whose Terms of Service continue to contain nothing on spamming. NetMonitor’s ISP is Nebula, whose attitude regarding spam can only be described as being somewhere between lax and actively hostile against complainants.
Dec
11
Facediili.fi: Spamming Xmas present tips
Facediili Oy (www, biz reg) is spamming on behalf of happydealsday.com (see domain registration below; the two are owned by what amounts to the same entity). The spam has been sent to a compound file consisting of their own customer file, the Finnish Trade Register (aka the Biz Info System) and “other public registers”. This spam obviously has nothing to do with anybody’s job function.
Dec
10
eSoft – Verkkokauppa (Tmi Erno Tiepuoli): Spamming to sell electronic gadgets
eSoft Online Shop, a personal d/b/a of Erno Tiepuoli (www, biz reg) is spamming to sell electronic gadgets. The ESP is Elastic Email, whose terms of service do not allow the sending of spam, or the use of purchased lists, and specifically make reference to Spamhaus’ definition of spam. I’ve notified Elastic Email (by email to abuse@elasticemail.com) about this spammer no later than Nov 22, 2012, but haven’t heard back from them, and the spammer is still busy spamming. The address source is Eniro, which is another d/b/a of Fonecta. In other words, it’s a purchased list.
Dec
10
Promohouse Ltd, Seychelles: Spamming
This is a totally boring spammer, but it’s hitting Finnish “B2B” addresses obtained from the Business Information System, and the messages sent to Finnish spamtraps are in unusually credible Finnish for a foreign spammer. It is advertising translation services, booking assistance for hotels &c, and the provision of online shops, among other things.
It identifies itself as Promohouse Ltd. 307 Victoria House, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles. This text is in all spams and could be used as content-based filter fodder if somebody was so inclined. Personally, I view content-based spam filters as a waste of CPU cycles and would rather see this operation bumped off the edge of the Internet…
Dec
10
Rustholli Remontit: Offering renovation projects to spamtraps
Rustholli Remontit Oy (www, biz reg) is spamming to offer renovation projects. Rustholli Remontit Oy continues the business of the now-bankrupt RuRe Oy (ex Rustholli Remontit Oy) (old biz reg, bankrupt estate biz reg). The ESP is scion.fi, Mansoft tietotekniikka Oy, who don’t see it appropriate to publish an Acceptable Use Policy at all. Rustholli have been spamming through Scion.fi at least since March 2012.
Dec
10
Fonecta attempts to bring Marketo into disrepute with themselves
Dec
05
SportElite Marketing Oy / Aim Higher: Spamming to solicit sponsorship from businesses for sportspeople
SportElite Marketing Oy, under the unregistered d/b/a Aim Higher (www, biz reg) is spamming to solicit sponsorship for sportspeople. Their spam service provider is the Fonecta/Ixonos collaboration, which currently means they’re experiencing serious delivery problems. Which is only appropriate given the unusually poor quality of Fonecta’s lists (even with respect to the other crap everybody else is peddling that has its origins in the Finnish Business Information System) and their utter failure to understand the problem that is spam.
Dec
05
Finnish Ice Hockey Association / Ilves Solutions Oy (intellia.fi): Spamming to sell tickets to ice hockey games
The Finnish Ice Hockey Association bought a spam campaign from Intellia.fi (Ilves Solutions Oy). As with practically any Finnish B2B spam, the stuff was seen at the addresses of some natural persons, the use of which constitutes a violation of Section 26 of the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications (not to mention that the processing of outdated and erroneous personal data violates Section 9, Paragraph 2 of the Personal Data Act) that have been retrieved from the Finnish Business Information System.
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