This isn’t really mainsleaze, because it’s so spammy and fraudulent, but I’ve sort of covered the topic before, so now that the spammer spammed again, I’m publishing the fact.
There’s a new player in town, Oraakkeli Oy (www, biz reg). They figure they’re doing something better than their competitors (that is, everybody in Finland spamming B2B lists completely indiscriminately) by spamming CEOs only. Their front page proudly says something about how they provide targeted B2B advertising and have a list of 35,944 CEOs from the 168,000 or so Finnish businesses in their list. The customer whose pitch they’re touting to “CEOs” is Finink.com (www, biz reg), an online retailer of printer inks.
Koulutuspalvelu Vaikutus (www, biz reg), who share at least one player with a spammer we already know, PowerCompetence, are spamming to sell their courses.
The ESP is NetMonitor (an unregistered d/b/a of Developer’s Helsinki Oy Ab), whose Terms of Service continue to contain nothing on spamming. NetMonitor’s ISP is Nebula, whose attitude regarding spam can only be described as being somewhere between lax and actively hostile against complainants.
Facediili Oy (www, biz reg) is spamming on behalf of happydealsday.com (see domain registration below; the two are owned by what amounts to the same entity). The spam has been sent to a compound file consisting of their own customer file, the Finnish Trade Register (aka the Biz Info System) and “other public registers”. This spam obviously has nothing to do with anybody’s job function.
eSoft Online Shop, a personal d/b/a of Erno Tiepuoli (www, biz reg) is spamming to sell electronic gadgets. The ESP is Elastic Email, whose terms of service do not allow the sending of spam, or the use of purchased lists, and specifically make reference to Spamhaus’ definition of spam. I’ve notified Elastic Email (by email to abuse@elasticemail.com) about this spammer no later than Nov 22, 2012, but haven’t heard back from them, and the spammer is still busy spamming. The address source is Eniro, which is another d/b/a of Fonecta. In other words, it’s a purchased list.
This is a totally boring spammer, but it’s hitting Finnish “B2B” addresses obtained from the Business Information System, and the messages sent to Finnish spamtraps are in unusually credible Finnish for a foreign spammer. It is advertising translation services, booking assistance for hotels &c, and the provision of online shops, among other things.
It identifies itself as Promohouse Ltd. 307 Victoria House, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles. This text is in all spams and could be used as content-based filter fodder if somebody was so inclined. Personally, I view content-based spam filters as a waste of CPU cycles and would rather see this operation bumped off the edge of the Internet…
Rustholli Remontit Oy (www, biz reg) is spamming to offer renovation projects. Rustholli Remontit Oy continues the business of the now-bankrupt RuRe Oy (ex Rustholli Remontit Oy) (old biz reg, bankrupt estate biz reg). The ESP is scion.fi, Mansoft tietotekniikka Oy, who don’t see it appropriate to publish an Acceptable Use Policy at all. Rustholli have been spamming through Scion.fi at least since March 2012.
I don’t know why today is a special day for Chinese scientific spam. But it seems to be. See previous post. The domains are registered to the same entities. The address source is, as before, “anything in PubMed goes”. I don’t know whether I should just take their advice and unsubscirble.
(I’m really impressed that the copy-paste from Emacs, which looks all blank on my screen, actually includes the Chinese content. Now there’s probably a way to identify the spamtrap from there…)