Abmart is spamming scientists whose addresses it has retrieved from articles available on PubMed. I’ve seen this spam in my own (positively ancient) traps as well as in mail reported to me by friendly scientists. There is no ESP; they’re using NetEase’s public webmail and Sina.net’s public webmail to spam. Is this even mainsleaze spam anymore?
GenScript, a leading biology CRO focusing exclusively on early drug discovery and development services is spamming scientists. The spamming domain molecular-biology.net is owned by “Company”, with a contact email address on Comcast’s public service, and redirects to GenScript’s own site if accessed through HTTP.
The OP-Pohjola group wants spamtraps to fill in surveys on vehicle insurance. This was seen at mildly outdated spamtraps as well as ones quite terribly so. The address list to which this was sent is the customer file of Pohjola Insurance, which appears then to violate Section 9 Paragraph 2 of the Personal Data Act that forbids the processing of outdated and erroneous personal information. The ESP is Digium Enterprise, a d/b/a of Questback Oy.
Charming Events Ltd want to invite a bunch of ancient spamtraps to an evening of fine dining and murder mystery on a steam train. They’re doing their own bulk emailing.
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Red Hat appears to be having a hard time processing bounces and removing ancient addresses from their lists. The ESP is Eloqua.
Stupido Shop, a record store in downtown Helsinki, is spamming record ads to spamtraps. Their ISP Nebula was notified of their processing of outdated and erroneous personal information on February 6, before the spamtraps opened for business. That seems to have led to nothing at all.
A young man from Espoo, Finland, a private person carrying on trade under the primary name Lateralus Enterprise d/b/a Tavoite Media, who objects to being named here and has enlisted the help of the Data Protection Ombudsman’s Office to have his name stricken from this blog, is spamming to offer his e-marketing consultation services. I’ve seen his spam at my own business starting August 2011; apparently he’s managed to listwash my business (easy enough) but unfortunately for him, my ancient spamtraps contain some addresses that are in the Finnish Business Information System too, so I get his spam this way.
Christian Dior, the French fashion house, want to sell clothes to ancient spamtraps. The ESP appears to be Prosodie.
Philip Morris GmbH, the German subsidiary of the international tobacco conglomerate, wants to promote cigarettes to ancient spamtraps. They appear to be doing their own bulk emailing.
This is so filthy it’s really hard to accept it as being mainsleaze. But it is sent by an entity that is readily identifiable from the message, it’s not botspam, and it’s not snowshoe spam, and it advertises services provided by the same entity that sent the message. So what else remains to call it but mainsleaze? Kontaktdata.se, a service of Svensk Företagsinformation Ab (“Swedish Business Information Ltd”) makes no pretenses about it. They sell and rent address lists for spamming and figure it’s all right. I don’t know if Cention are the ESP, or actually the party behind the operation.