A relatively recently formed business, Regus Management (Finland) Oy (biz reg) is using spam to fictitious personal data to advertise their wares. The spam service provider is Emaileri, a Finnish ESP with a reputation for allowing spam.
Took me almost a year to notice
http://urmomark.com/2013/12/25/atro-tossavainen-soome-emaili-turundajate-ristiruutel-suomen-sahkoposti-markkinoijat-crusader/
Quite some time back, the Data Protection Ombudsman in Finland has issued a position paper on affiliate marketing and the division of responsibilities therein. The document is naturally in Finnish only. The core message is following the money; holding the owners of the advertised products and services responsible for the processing of personal data in such situations. This is nice when (as so often happens) the affiliate marketers violate all laws on the books, remaining anonymous, not including anything on the file of personal data they use, spamming, etc.
Regus still spamming, still through Edatis, still using purchased lists.
Spamming IP: 83.136.212.5
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Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and any number of smaller social networks we don’t even know all seem to suffer from the same problem: ignoring the fact that domains cease to exist.
Only just today, I’ve spotted mail from LinkedIn to many accounts in over a dozen spamtrap domains. Twitter likewise, and Facebook, even more. I imagine that having control of these email addresses, I could “reset password” in all of those accounts if I wanted to, and therefore gain control over most of them (if they aren’t using two-factor authentication, such as that LinkedIn offers). How is this in the interest of the social networks or the account owners?
As mentioned on this site earlier, EmailVision now seems to be one of the ESPs of choice for the payday loan spam industry.
The self titled “Business Guru” (www in Finnish, www in English at alternate domain) is selling the standard fare, B2B spam lists. The yritysguru.fi domain is registered to Mikael Suominen as a private person. The finnishcompanyregistry.com domain is WhoisGuard Protected. The actual hosting of both is cloaked by CloudFlare.
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“Interesting” affiliate spam from EmailVision, hitting over a hundred spamtraps that I have access to. Promoting Euroloan Consumer Finance plc, a Finnish payday lender. I am getting the impression that Jubiis might be a Danish affiliate(?) spammer, but their website says they’re on Malta, and their Domain by Proxy registration illegally leaves them untraceable. The spam text is in Finnish save for the “description” of how you came to be on their list and how to be removed, which are in Danish, which is of course equal to Gibberish for 99.9% of the world population (save for the 5.59 million Danes, that is).
There’s any number of great resources on Knowledge Hut, such as MyWOT, or this conversation on LinkedIn. Nonetheless, I figured we might add our $.02.
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Gateway Analytics Network is spamming via StreamSend. StreamSend, true to their usual colour, are turning a deaf ear to messages sent to abuse@.