Apr
07

Fight for the Future: Political spam

Fight for the Future, a non-profit formed in late 2010, is spamming addresses that are very unlikely to have anything to do with U.S. politics anyway and that, if they’re real, stopped existing years before Fight for the Future was formed.  The ESP is SendGrid. The realnames seem real enough, the addresses seem made up. I wonder if this is a case of malicious forge-subscriptions.  If that is so, practicing confirmed opt-in would have prevented this.  The message itself does not shed any light on the address list building mechanisms of this sender.

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Apr
07

VisiScience: Spamming scientists from the cloud

VisiScience is spamming addresses harvested from PubMed. Their service provider is the Amazon cloud.

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Apr
07

Advanstar: Adding new IP ranges for spamming

This has to do with a spammer we already know (see previous posts 1 and 2). They’ve added another IP range. Meanwhile, the spam from the two previously identified ranges is continuing as well.

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Apr
06

Autodesk: Spamming as ever

This is just a recap of the previous post with new spam added.

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Mar
29

Autodesk: Still ignoring opt-out

This is really just a repeat of the previous post with new spam added.

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Mar
28

StarPoint: Selling entertainment performers to spamtraps

Oy StarPoint Ab (see biz reg) is selling entertainment services to spamtraps. The ESP is Suomen IT-Ratkaisut Oy (viestisuora.fi).
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Mar
25

Life Technologies: Selling lab equipment by spamming

Life Technologies Corporation is spamming addresses found on PubMed. The ESP is ExactTarget.
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Mar
24

Congressman Cynthia Lummis: Keeping spamtraps informed of proceedings in Washington

This political spam was seen at addresses that have been dead for ten years.

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Mar
24

OMICS Group: Advertising conferences to spamtraps

This post is Part 2 in a series of two. OMICS Group are not content to spam through an ESP; they’re also spamming under bioprovider.com, a Domain by Proxy.

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Mar
24

(RESOLVED) OMICS Group: Asking spamtraps to submit papers

This spammer is an old acquaintance here. They’re still spamming through Benchmark, who haven’t reacted to the previous post. This one was brought to their attention in an abuse complaint as well. This post is Part 1 in a series of two; OMICS are using multiple channels to spam.

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