Shoe matching service Just Fabulous is sending bulk email to an email address that has never existed (a pure spamtrap). This particular spamtrap appears to have recently been added to an e-pended list; it has started to receive snowshoe and mainsleaze spam in significant quantities in the past three months, almost all of it using a first name that is a plausible deduction from the spamtrap itself. The ESP is ExactTarget.
The president of the Ohio chapter of the AFL-CIO, the largest trade union in the United States, is sending “get out the vote” emails to an email address that closed before the last presidential election. Either the AFL-CIO ignored bounces from early 2008 through late 2009, is sending email to a list that has not been contacted since that period, or has purchased a list. The ESP was Salsalabs, the ESP side of liberal U.S. political activist group Wired for Change.
IMAGINiT Technologies, a subsidiary of Rand Worldwide, is sending bulk email to a role address. This email address was used to receive email, but not to send email; it would never have subscribed to receive email from any person or company. The name in the email is not associated with this role address; it appears to have been added later, likely via an e-pending process. The ESP is Eloqua.
IWA Publishing, the publications wing of the International Water Association, is sending bulk email to an old role address that was closed in 2007. The ESP is MailChimp.
U.S. charity American Heart Association is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2008, collecting donations for its childhood obesity initiative. This is the first spam that this email address has received from the American Heart Association since it exited its timeout period in late 2009. This email address receives a great deal of spam from non-profit and political groups, an amount that has been increasing steadily over the past two years. While it is possible that a great many non-profit and political organizations are sending to fallow lists, the increase in spam sent to this email address over the past six months leads me to believe that it is probably on a “targeted” list sold to non-profit and political senders. The ESP is ExactTarget.
Exposures, a photograph-based personalized gifts seller affiliated with catalog retailer Miles Kimball, is sending bulk email to the same spamtrap as Miles Kimball and another Miles Kimball affiliate. The ESP is E-Dialog.