I googled one of the businesses I have just reported here together with the word spam and came across http://biospam.wikidot.com/. They haven’t been active for a while, though, but the phenomenon is clearly widely recognised. Apparently the folks I googled have been at it for quite a while.
ATG biosynthetics GmbH, a German business, appears to be spamming addresses harvested from scientific publications as the scientist who received this doesn’t recognise being a customer. ATG are doing their own bulk emailing. The ISP is 1&1.
Cellectis SA, a worldwide pioneer in Genome engineering, is spamming addresses harvested from scientific publications. The ESP is EmailVision, whose anti-spam policy unequivocally prohibits the sending of unsolicited emails.
bioprofiling.de, a free web portal for analyses and interpretation of biological data of various natures is spamming scientists. They make no pretensions about their illegal opt-out spamming and data collection practices: You are receiving this message because you are an active author in the field. To unsubscribe, please reply with “no” in the subj. line. The message is sent from the network of the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow, Russia, and advertises a site hosted in the network of Bytemark in the UK.
Here’s another bunch who figure publishing a scientific paper makes you fair game to be spammed.
As with Proteogenix, here’s another bunch who figure the act of publishing a scientific paper serves as a form of granting consent to be added to all sorts of mailing lists.
Proteogenix, a French supplier of custom synthesis services, is spamming. It is unclear whether they are using an ESP or not; it doesn’t look like they are. The spamming domain 3go.fr is registered to a private person who wishes to remain anonymous. The ISP is OVH.
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Deltaline Oy d/b/a Mainospörssi (mainosporssi.fi) is spamming to sell office accessories, business gifts and the like. The ESP is Websonic Oy d/b/a Emaileri, who actively promote using purchased lists for B2B spamming on their site.
DPJ Suomi Oy (dpj.fi) wants to sell office furniture by spamming. The ESP is the Swedish epostservice.se, whose terms of service permit opt-out spamming wherever it is legal (Item 6).
Seq 5 Oy, also trading as Siteseq, is spamming to attract new customers for its webpage design services.
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