Who is Bon-Ton?

Bon-Ton is a chain of department stores, according to Google. I’m not familiar with them. There are definitely no Bon-Ton stores in the city I live in. I’ve never purchased anything from them, online or in store. Yet, they sent me this email via ESP CheetahMail. I smell an email append; this particular spamtrap seems to get personalized spam where people think this address is some other person, based on a faulty database match of some sort.

I personally will not be accepting any more mail from 8.7.42.227, except to report it to various blocklist groups.

Sending IP: 8.7.42.227

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from mta923.shopbonton.com (mta923.shopbonton.com. [8.7.42.227])
by xx.com with SMTP id xx; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:xx:xx -0700 (PDT)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:xx:xx -0000
Message-ID: <xx.xx.xx@xx.shopbonton.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:rm-xx@shopbonton.com>
From: "Bon-Ton" <bonton@shopbonton.com>
To: xx
Subject: Tell us about yourself and get $5 off $5

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