Verizon: Asking a Spamtrap to Switch Phone and Internet Service
U.S. and global telecommunications giant Verizon just sent an advertising email to a spamtrap that was closed in 2003. This spamtrap has not previously heard from Verizon. As the advertisement urges the spamtrap to switch to Verizon from (presumably) another telephone and Internet service, this cannot be email to a customer. The email also makes no claim to be opt-in. The ESP is Sendgrid, whose authorized use policy explicitly requires that bulk email sent through their service be opt-in only.
Sending IP: 50.31.52.82
Spam Sample:
Actual Headers:
Received: from o746323478.static.reverse.sendgrid.net (o746323478.static.reverse.sendgrid.net [74.63.234.78])
by <xxx> (Postfix) with SMTP id <xxx>
for <xxx>; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:xx:xx -0000 (UT)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Received: by 10.4.xx.xx with SMTP id <xxx>
Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:xx:xx -0500 (CDT)
Received: from verizonbusinessmadeeasy.com (unknown [10.60.xx.xx])
by mi3 (SG) with ESMTP id <xxx>
for <xxx>; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:xx:xx -0400 (EST)
X-MailPersonHistoryID: <xxx>
X-MailPersonSubscriberID: <xxx>
X-MailPersonEmail: <xxx>
Reply-To: enews@verizonbusinessmadeeasy.com
From: "Verizon Business Made Easy" <enews@verizonbusinessmadeeasy.com>
To: <xxx>
Message-ID: <<xxx>@verizonbusinessmadeeasy.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:xx:xx -0400
Subject: Switching Is Easy With Our Worry-Free Guarantee
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Sendgrid-EID: <xxx>
Sender: Verizon Business Made Easy <enews=verizonbusinessmadeeasy.com@sendgrid.me>
Readable Email:
From: Verizon Business Made Easy <enews@verizonbusinessmadeeasy.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Switching Is Easy With Our Worry-Free Guarantee
Reply-To: enews@verizonbusinessmadeeasy.com
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