Mar
19
Mar
19
Alko: Asking spamtraps to take surveys
The wine connoisseurs’ society of Alko, the Finnish govt-owned alcohol monopoly, wants to ask a spamtrap member to participate in a survey. The ESP is Feedback Dialog.
Mar
19
WebmedCentral: Inviting eminent biomedical spamtraps to join their editorial board
WebmedCentral want spamtraps to join their editorial board because of [their] eminence in the biomedical field. Admittedly the spamtrap was a corresponding author in some rather minor articles published in a Finnish medical journal way, way back. It is clear the addresses this was sent to have been scraped from articles available via, or in this case, not even available but merely alluded to, on PubMed. Others writing well before me are not too convinced either.
Mar
18
Finnmatkat: Using “tell a friend” marketing… to oneself?
Finnmatkat, a Finnish travel agency, appears to be using tell-a-friend marketing as an excuse to spam. The spam claims to have been sent by IT-Systems Finland Oy (it-systems.fi), but that’s only a HELO name (although the Message-ID domain goodland.fi is registered to them too…). The sending network is owned by Tenue Oy, and the rDNS domain of the sending IP address, myrootshell.com is registered personally to the NOC of Tenue, Mr Sami Holopainen.
Mar
17
Electronic Arts: Inviting spamtraps to join the fight in Mass Effect 3
Electronic Arts is inviting spamtraps to stand up and fight in ME3. The ESP is CheetahMail, and the spamtrap ceased to exist as a real email address about 10 years prior to the release of the game.
Mar
17
Sonera: Having a hard time figuring SMTP 5xx errors are permanent
Sonera wants to tell a spamtrap about the current selection available on their IPTV. They’re doing their own bulking, and what a fantastic process it is.
Mar
16
Microsoft wants spamtraps to help them focus on their customers and partners
Microsoft wants to ask spamtraps for help on focusing on their customers and partners. The ESP is ExactTarget. The content of the message below is in Swedish.
Mar
15
Autodesk: Not respecting opt-out
Autodesk, the manufacturer of 3D design software, is ignoring repeated opt-outs and consequently mailing an outdated and erroneous address in violation of Section 9, Paragraph 2 of the Personal Data Act, and sending unsolicited commercial email to an address that has opted out, violating Sections 26-27 (depending on how you interpret the nature of the target address; it is that of a natural person, but it could be argued the address owner used to receive this mail as a function of their job description) of the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications. They’re doing their own bulking.
Mar
14
Passeli: Selling bookkeeping software to spamtraps
Passeli Ohjelmat Oy (see biz reg), a Finnish manufacturer of financial software for bookkeeping etc, want to sell their products to really quite outdated and erroneous spamtraps. They are using a purchased list from Suomen Asiakastieto. The ESP is Innoctus, whose postmaster didn’t exist about a month ago when I tried to let them know about the need for bounce handling… in connection with spam from Passeli, what else.
Mar
14
JS Media: Teaching spamtraps how to deal with Facebook Timeline
JS Media (see biz reg; a personal d/b/a of Jukka Saario) wants to teach spamtraps how to deal with Facebook Timeline. Addresses are outdated and erroneous and the sender indicates having bought them from Fonecta. The ESP is Campaign Monitor, whose anti-spam policy forbids the use of purchased lists.
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