Oct
21

Brazilian Company Fortune Invest Spams Non-Portuguese Speaker

A Brazilian investment company, Fortune Invest, sent bulk email in Portuguese to a spamtrap via Brazilian ESP Dinamize. Dinamize uses the domain smartcrm.com.br to do its bulk mailing. The spamtrap is at one of my personal domains, not a spamtrap domain, but is a pure spamtrap — the email address never existed at all. The web site for that domain was in English. I do not speak Portuguese, and have never visited Brazil or had business connections in that country.

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Oct
21

PositivePrint: Emailing a Spamtrap

PositivePrint, an Internet-based print house, is sending bulk email to a spamtrap via ESP Constant Contact. The spamtrap is a long-closed email address that has not been live for years, and that rejected email for over twelve consecutive months in the interim before being re-enabled. It should not receive any bulk email any longer.

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Oct
20

Front Porch Politics: Emailing A *VERY* Old Closed Email Address

Front Porch Politics, a web portal for people who support conservative political causes in the U.S., is sending bulk emails to an email address that has not been live for several years, via conservative activist marketer and ESP ResponseBeacon.

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Oct
20

Paperless Publishing: Spamming a Purchased List?

Paperless Publishing, a new e-book publishing company, sent the attached advertisement to an old and long-closed personal email address. That email address has not been live since the early 2000s, and gets nothing but spam and an occasional misdirected personal email, which this clearly is not. The company spammed via one of the outbound customer SMTP smarthosts at GoDaddy, the domain registrar and hosting company where their domain is both registered and hosted.

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Oct
20

Faithful America: Mailing a Long-Closed Email Address

Faithful America, an organization of religious people who support progressive causes, is spamming an email address that was turned into a spamtrap about a year ago after rejecting email at SMTP time for over eighteen months. Their ESP is SalsaLabs, aka Wired for Change.

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Oct
19

DCCC: Mailing Long-Closed Email Addresses

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), an organization affiliated with the U.S. Democratic political party, is spamming email addresses that have been closed for years, and in the interim bounced email at SMTP time with a 500-level rejection for over twelve consecutive months. In other words, these email addresses are spamtraps. If the DCCC continues to send bulk email to them in the quantities that I am seeing, they are likely to end up in trouble with anti-spam blacklists.

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Oct
19

Westfield Southpark: Spamming Purchased Lists?

Westfield, a high end U.K.-based apparel and accessories company UK-based owner of shopping malls that has a presence in the U.S., is welcoming a spamtrap as a new subscriber. They appear to have purchased a list. The ESP is Responsys.

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Oct
19

Political Spam on the MainSleaze Blog

Before Charles blogged about the spam he had received from Herman Cain’s campaign this morning, he emailed me and asked if political spam qualified for mention on the blog. The answer was “yes”, qualified only by the requirement that the spam be from the sender’s own IPs or sent via a legitimate ESP. On thinking about this, I realized that a public policy statement might be in order.

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Oct
19

LinkedIn: Pestering Spamtraps with Invitation Reminders

Social networking site LinkedIn is sending invitations to join both to email addresses that never existed and email addresses that might have existed many years ago but not in the past few years. LinkedIn does not appear to do any vetting of email addresses that its users provide to it, leading it to send invitation emails to many spamtraps on a regular basis. It then sends reminders about email that was unsolicited in the first place.

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Oct
19

Valvoline: Emailing Auto Racing Newsletter to Spamtraps

Valvoline, a U.S.-based automotive parts and supplies company, is sending its auto racing newsletter Track Talk to several long-closed email addresses via ESP SilverPop.

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