Feb
18
An open letter to Filip Poutintsev / Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media
This was sent in private email on Feb 12 in response to a spam. No response has been received so far.
Jun
04
Getwin Oy / Tavoite Media / Lateralus Enterprise spamming again
Yet another batch of spam from Espoo’s gift to the world, my favourite sp4mm3r boi and his mentor. Cooperating with Pakistani players and OVH. Missing the legally required information on how to opt out, as well as what the file of personal data is and who is the controller.
Feb
11
iFilip (Tavoite Media / Lateralus Enterprise), my spam superhero
Dude goes around asking “Which of these domains can be traced directly back to me”, then spams using the same domains advertising the SEO services of tavoitemedia.fi. What a brainiac.
Dude handles some of his spamming himself, but also sells address lists to others to use in spamming. The lists that he sells to others are considerably crappier than those he uses himself. Wonder why…
Nov
22
Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media: Descending ever deeper into spamdom
Continuing his descent deeper into Spamland, my bestest friend Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media is now advertising “try out a car free for a month”. The beneficiary of the campaign is nordic-car-testing.com, a “survey” carried out by Orville Media ApS, a Danish advertising agency with a poor reputation – googling them produces a number of hits to Finnish forum discussions where consumers feel they have been cheated by this group and the Consumer Ombudsman and the Digitoday magazine specifically warn against giving this group any information at all. There is even a dedicated page by a Danish person that mentions them. A particularly nice touch (and proof of “descent into spamdom” is the use of “emails.com” as the apparent address source, sender and reply-to – it’s a parked domain that’s registered to somebody in China and may well never have had any involvement with Lateralus Enterprise.
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Nov
09
Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media: Illegally disrespecting opt-out and spamming to sell magazine subscriptions
This was sent to my business address, the use of which I’ve forbidden from the sender no later than September 19, 2011. This is a repeat of a spam sent on September 28. It says “You have received this offer because you have subscribed to our newsletter.” Well surprise surprise, the biz didn’t. The domain name mentioned for complaints is expired and leads nowhere, so you can’t actually write to “them”, and you can’t view the URL that supposedly contains the address source, because the domain is parked.
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Oct
17
Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media: Spamming to sell SEO services to spamtraps
Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media is spamming again, this time to advertise its own search engine optimization services.
Oct
09
Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media diving into “B2C”… with a harvest of the Finnish Business Information System
Ouch. Ouch!!!! How many ways can you fail?
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Sep
19
Bisnesrekisteri.fi / Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media: Deliberately violating opt-out, deliberately processing outdated and erroneous personal information
No need for copy of any kind, as the message is the same as yesterday. Only the target address matters here, and that’s trivial to deduce. Headers below, anyway.
Sep
18
Bisnesrekisteri.fi / Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media
More spam just in from the spammer at Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media advertising the spam registers for sale at bisnesrekisteri.fi. Now the mails contain a disclaimer to say “This is an advertisement meant for companies that does not require prior consent according to law.” Well, it’s still spam, and it gets listed and otherwise treated as spam nonetheless.