Feb
27
Vidal Sassoon: Teaching a spamtrap how to cut hair?
The Sassoon Academy wants to sell a video of cutting-edge hair techniques to spamtraps. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Feb
27
Adobe: Advertising desktop publishing programs to spamtraps
Adobe wants to sell software to rather outdated spamtraps. The ESP is Innovyx, whose front page prominently displays their ToS.
Feb
27
ResponseWave / Seed Digital Media: Another fantastic ESP failure
Responsewave Ltd, a self-professed leading provider of hosted viral marketing and permission marketing solutions, isn’t interested in hearing from me (on a topic related to address list quality, what else).
Feb
25
Mayor Mike McGinn: Promoting himself to spamtraps
The Mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn, is mailing out to spamtraps that have been dead for ten years. The ESP is Postini.
Feb
24
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP): Spamming scientists, outdated and erroneous addresses
SCIRP are spamming addresses obtained from scientific publications in PubMed. This particular one was seen at an address that was last used to submit a paper in the fall of 2000 and is part of the new spamtrap group. They’re doing their own bulking, no ESP involved here.
Feb
24
LCGC: Spamming scientists from multiple locations
LCGC are not content to spam scientists from Advanstar, they’re also using the services of… Advanstar (aci-market.com).
Feb
24
EPS Inc. (Canada): Spamming to invite scientists to conferences
The Canadian business EPS Inc., of 1625 Maisonneuve Ouest Suite 305, Montreal, Canada H3H 2N4, tel. +1-514-933-4119, fax +1-514-933-9519 is spamming scientists to advertise a conference they are arranging. Their ESP is StreamSend, part of Web development and hosting firm EZ Publishing, whose acceptable use policy forbids the sending of unsolicited bulk email.
Feb
20
Motifolio: Spamming scientists
Motifolio, a site that provides biomedical PowerPoint toolkits for presentations, is spamming. Their ESP is the Canadian-based Campaigner. As an aside, Canada has relatively new anti-spam legislation that is among the best in the world. It simply prohibits all unsolicited commercial email. Let’s see what Campaigner make of this spam, given their terms and conditions, anti-spam policy, and said legislation.
Feb
20
Miltenyi Biotec GmbH: spamming scientists
Miltenyi Biotec GmbH, a company that provides products and services for biomedical research, is spamming. The ESP is SC-Networks GmbH, their Evalanche service, which does not appear to have a Terms of Service.