A few days ago, somebody tweeted a copy of a letter Fonecta, the Finnish spammer and list vendor, had sent to its customers. The matter also made news in Finnish IT press (Tietoviikko).
A copy of the letter and a translation are included below.
The fine fellow from Ratekoulutus, an old acquaintance here (www, biz reg) is spamming to advertise its spamming courses. Oh, I mean “workshops on New Generation E-mail Marketing”. The new generation is spam, as was the old one. Nothing new under the sun, in other words.
A show of hands, please: would you, the reader, take a class on e-mail marketing from somebody who deliberately sends unsolicited commercial email (spam) to what must be purchased or harvested lists consisting of, among other things, the outdated and erroneous addresses of natural persons?
Participating speakers include a dude from Koodiviidakko, an ESP that does not seem to practice bounce processing of any kind. He’s talking on the topic of purchasing lists. It’s also covered in their guidebook, in a generally positive tone.
Tiimore Promotion Oy (tmore.fi) wants to sell business gifts to spamtraps. The spam was seen at the same spamtraps as the Designfair one, so it seems possible that the address source is the same, too. Apparently somebody is selling the emaildump.txt (Finnish equivalent of the Millions CD – a 11MB collection of leaked Finnish email addresses published in November 2011) as a legitimate B2C marketing register. The ESP is Koodiviidakko Oy.