Sep
04
August 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
ESP mail seen in spamtraps August 2016
The theme of this month’s post is a specific company, unfortunately. The questionable honour goes to SMTP.com, Inc.
Aug
11
Streamsend: ESP Spams for Its Own Marketing Department
Streamsend, the ESP service of ISP EZ Publishing, is sending bulk email to an email address that hasn’t been live since the 1990s. The email advertises EZ Publishing webhosting and development services.
Aug
03
July 2016 in Spamtraps: ESPs
Feb
29
Penton Media: Spamming a Scraped Contact Email Address
Penton Media, a marketing firm with a past history of sending opt-out bulk email (spam), is emailing bulk advertisements to the contact email address for my personal blog (tw86034@ergosphere.net). The ESP is the Oracle Marketing Cloud, which is the combination of former ESPs Eloqua and Responsys, both of which Oracle now owns.
Sep
15
Effortia Oy / Asuntojenmyynti.fi
Spamming once again, this time through the anonymous Huipputarjous.biz who have managed to obtain services from Elastic Email. Going steadily towards the lowest end of bottom feeding spam service providers. (This is not aimed at Elastic; rather Huipputarjous.biz and all of the other anonymous “all the businesses in the YTJ must have participated in an online competition that nobody has heard of and only started last week” spammers.)
Spamming from 162.254.227.0/25.
Aug
31
Supergo Oy: Spamming
A fairly well established business, Supergo Oy (www, biz reg, responsible people) has recently made the regrettable decision to purchase an email list for spamming.
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Aug
29
iZettle: Enticing spamtraps to start accepting credit card payments
During August 2015, and possibly earlier, the Swedish provider of lightweight card payment solutions, iZettle, has enlisted the services of Roy Knows Best, also known as Salesleads Scandinavia AB, for their advertising.
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Aug
27
Suomitotal.com: New anonymous Finnish B2B spam list vendor
Some time ago, a new spam list vendor came to our sights. They are suomitotal.com (anonymized domain registration) and they are mailing out of Elastic Email, selling B2B lists for spamming, predictably by spamming.
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Aug
19
Estonian spammers targeting Finland: Martin Anderson / All-Tec Services OÜ
I’ve only just received a spam from [85.222.235.134] to an address that has to be harvested from the web pages of the company. I did a little looking up and it turns out that the spammer is Martin Anderson, of the Estonian company All-Tec Services OÜ, who is already familiar to the local spamhound.
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Aug
14
Verizon: Spamming an Email Appended List
Verizon, one of the largest telecommunication companies in America, has sent email to several of my spamtraps in the past few weeks. These emails solicit the business of companies that are not associated with those spamtraps, but whose company names might plausibly belong to the email addresses that received the spam. No ESP was involved; Verizon sent this email from their own IPs.