TELUS Business Solutions: sending bulk advertising emails to a spamtrap

Canadian telecommunications provider TELUS is sending UBE to a pure spamtrap. The ESP is Eloqua.

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[RESOLVED] Serena Software – now spamming multiple spamtraps

I had posted back in November about Serena Software mailing a spamtrap via Marketo. Serena is now hitting not one, not two, not even a handful, but rather slightly below a hundred pure spamtraps.

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[RESOLVED] Serena Software: inviting a spamtrap to join a webcast

Silicon Valley firm, Serena Software, sent this webcast invitation to a pure spamtrap, ie an email address that has never been used as anything else but a spamtrap. The particular spamtrap normally gets spams advertising fake watches and herbal alternatives to certain blue pills, rather than mainsleaze spams. Makes me wonder how they went about building their list…
The ESP in this case is Marketo.

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Fab.com spamming via ESP Sailthru

The “exclusive” seller of interior design stuff, Fab.com has a bit of a spam problem. Over the span of a month, an old and no longer used (but still “active”) address of mine has received not one, but six unsolicited bulk (and commercial) emails from the upscale interior design retailer.

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Equifax failing to honor unsubscribes

Equifax sent this gem on 10/13/2011 to an address that was given to them in order to obtain a credit report under FACTA on 7/24/2011, opted-out several hours later the same day, got spammed by Equifax on 9/21/2011 and did the unsubscribe thing again on that date.

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