One of the many parties who spam the ten year old boxes are Vistaprint, whom I have discussed here before. The ESP is Relation & Brand, a Swedish operator.
Spa Finland want to invite a spamtrap to visit Finnish spas during the winter break. Clearly this is not a very active mailing list; it’s the first time this address hears of spa.fi during my tenancy of the spamtrap domain. The person involved may very well have signed up voluntarily, but letting the list go for over two years without a single mail…? Give me a break. The ESP is Genisys, who know about the spamtrap domain already… as of January 18, 2011.
I’ve recently laid my hands on a bunch of what I think are pretty fantastic spamtraps. A group of domains that used to belong to a startup at the turn of the millennium, sold for $A_LOT to a big player who didn’t know what to do with it and folded it in 2002. The domains haven’t been in any use since. You think a year’s timeout ought to do it? So do I.
Tiimore Promotion Oy (tmore.fi) wants to sell business gifts to spamtraps. The spam was seen at the same spamtraps as the Designfair one, so it seems possible that the address source is the same, too. Apparently somebody is selling the emaildump.txt (Finnish equivalent of the Millions CD – a 11MB collection of leaked Finnish email addresses published in November 2011) as a legitimate B2C marketing register. The ESP is Koodiviidakko Oy.
Janne Leino, a private person of Ulvilantie 27b A 36, 00350 HELSINKI, tel. +358-40-966-4358, is spamming to sell investment services. The spam-advertised site indicates it is operated on behalf of Eindex Oy, which is a limited company involving Mr Leino and operates out of his home address. The message advertises a service connected to financial investments and admits it was sent to addresses harvested from the Finnish Business Information Service.
EventFlame Oy, who operate the Design Market Satama fair that will be organised in Helsinki in a week’s time, want to invite a spamtrap to visit the fair. Update Feb 8: A phone call from the CEO indicates they recognised their mistake in having bought a mailing list and will not be doing this again.
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Miliot Science wants to sell laboratory equipment via spamming. Unfortunately their spam was addressed to a natural person in violation of Section 26 of the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications, and does not contain a description of the personal data file used to obtain the addresses or the identity of the data controller, in violation of Section 25 of the Personal Data Act, and there is no description of the data file on the website either, in violation of Section 10 of the Personal Data Act.
Turbogear Oy (swimshop.fi) wants to sell swimwear via spamming.
Following the reception of more of exactly the same, this is just a recap of the previous post.
Pixmania Pro, the B2B arm of the French company Pixmania SAS, is spamming. They’re not even pretending it’s not spam. The ESP is NP6, likewise a French business.