Jan
23
Panic Marketing again
Panic Marketing, the subject of the now defunct SBL168245, have been lying low for a bit, but are active again. And were noticed by the right people.
Feb
19
Toshiba Finland: Contracting with known spammers to sell printing services to spamtraps
Toshiba Finland (www, biz reg) have contracted with the sorry spammers from Turku, Panic Marketing (www, biz reg, LinkedIn) to carry out a marketing campaign. Approximately 1.8 billion inboxes have already said “no” to this missive.
Nov
22
FilmTown: Spamming Finnish businesses for “video rentals for Xmas”
Video Film Town Oy, d/b/a FilmTown (www, biz reg) is spamming Finnish businesses with “hints for biz Xmas presents”. Their partner in spam is Panic Marketing Oy (whose Sales Group Manager recently had a rather futile attempt at spam-apologist conversation with SendGrid…), with an address list that was purchased from Digimediatoimisto Haikuu.
Nov
19
Nordic Business Forum 2013: Advertising the conference by spamming
In a recap of their last year’s efforts, Panic Marketing Oy is spamming again to advertise Nordic Business Forum 2013 (also available in English). Their efforts seem to have begun on November 15, 2012.
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Oct
15
CL-Yhtiöpalvelu: Renting temps to spamtraps
CL-Yhtiöpalvelu Oy (biz reg, www) is spamming to sell temps to spamtraps. Their partner in spam this time is Panic Marketing, who are unfortunately no stranger here. Their list is based on “Public sources on the Internet”, i.e. we’re spamming and we know it.
Sep
24
Hälyx: Selling security to spamtraps
Something calling itself “Hälyx” is advertising business security services to spamtraps. The message contains the admission that the source of the register they operate, which they decline to name as required by law, are “public address sources on the Internet”.
The spam service provider is Panic Marketing, no stranger to us here, unfortunately, who also operate the web bug in this message (“<img src=’http://static.dmt.panic.fi/scripts/handle_reademail.php?x=<timestamp.x.x.swift@dmt.panic.fi>’>).
Jul
17
Panic Marketing: Harvesting personal information from the Internet to spam
Panic Marketing Oy (see biz reg), who are an old acquaintance here, are spamming natural persons whose addresses they confess to having harvested from “public sources on the Internet” with ads for cell phones and plans from Elisa, who used to be known as Helsinki Telephone Co. However, the sender and the beneficiary are not identified in the message. The apparent sender domain, which also hosts the unsub facility, is registered through Domains by Proxy. How much more can you fail?
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