Two months after Men’s Health Magazine and Books, a subsidary of Rodale Press, began spamming one of my spamtraps, sister publication Women’s Health Magazine and Books is suddenly spamming an email address that was closed in 2004. This spamtrap email address has not received email from Women’s Health previously, at least not since it became a spamtrap. The ESP, as before, is Acxiom Digital.
Microsoft is up to two spamtraps now; it has sent unsolicited bulk advertising email to two different email addresses that have not been live since before 2008. One of those email addresses has received Microsoft spam previously; the other has not received email from Microsoft since before it became a spamtrap. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Rentalo, a vacation rentals portal, just sent a bulk email advertisement to an email address that has been closed for at least eight years. This email address has not previously received email from Rentalo, so I wonder why it is now? The ESP is Campaigner.
Disney Destinations, the travel business of media and entertainment empire Disney Corporation, sent an advertising email to a long-closed email address today. This spamtrap hasn’t heard from Disney before, at least not since it became a spamtrap. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Silver Oak Casino, a group of online gambling sites that uses multiple names and domains, has been sending bulk email to a number of my spamtraps for months. None of these spamtraps has been live for over two years; some have not been live for over a decade. I was unaware until the last couple of days that the various casino spams that my spamtraps have been receiving via ESP Emailvision were all sent by the same company, but they were.
U.S.-based mobile telephone company Verizon Wireless today sent a bulk email advertisement to a spamtrap that has not existed since 2003. The spamtrap has not previously received email from Verizon Wireless since it came out of timeout and became a spamtrap. Nonetheless, the spam claims, “You recently registered with a network website to receive special online offers.” This is not true for any reasonable definition of “recently”. The ESP is Yesmail, a subsidiary of Infogroup.
Today Bank of America sent a customer satisfaction survey reminder to the same spamtrap via ESP Real Magnet that it has been emailing or months via ESP ExactTarget.