Jan
05
(Mostly resolved) Thought Leader Global: Mailing a pure spamtrap – smells of Marcus Evans
Thought Leader Global started spamming an address that is a dead giveaway for Marcus Evans-ness. The ESP is emailIQ, a service of Kinexus Internet.
Jan
03
Myrtle Beach Golf Courses: Selling Golf Vacations to a Spamtrap
Myrtle Beach Golf Courses, a specialist travel organization offering golf vacations, is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2009. This email address first started to receive bulk email from this sender in late 2011; it had not previously received email from this sender. Myrtle Beach Golf Courses is either mailing a very old list after allowing it to remain uncontacted for years, or Myrtle Beach Golf Courses or their marketing firm Fuel Interactive purchased a list. The sending ESP is ExactTarget.
Jan
02
Pinnoitetyö Helsinki Oy (huopakatonkorjaus.fi): Finnish B2B spammer
Pinnoitetyö Helsinki Oy, a local business that does roof repairs, is spamming.
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Jan
02
TT Consulting, s.r.o. / Komoditná burza Bratislava, a.s. (Slovakia): spamming outdated addresses, not respecting opt-out
TT Consulting, s.r.o. of Slovakia (whois) and/or Komoditná burza Bratislava, a.s. (perhaps two separate organisations, but the same person as prime mover) is/are spamming addresses at a domain that has changed hands despite the fact that they’ve been told this is the case. Domains involved in the spamming are kbb.sk, scholtz.sk, ttconsulting.sk, carbonplace.eu. This may be related to a similar operation elsewhere that has also been reported here.
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Jan
01
John Waltz: Spamming Spamtraps to Solicit Campaign Contributions
John Waltz, Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in Michigan’s Sixth Congressional district, is sending bulk email to email addresses that were closed before 2008. Either Mr. Waltz previously ran for office before 2008 and gathered a list of supporters at that time that he has not contacted since then, or his campaign has purchased or otherwise obtained a list of email addresses that did not request bulk email from him. The ESP is Salsalabs, the ESP side of liberal U.S. political activist group Wired for Change.
Jan
01
Doctors Without Borders: Emailing an OLD List?
Doctors Without Borders (aka Médecins Sans Frontières or just MSF), a highly-respected medical charity that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, is sending bulk email to an email address that was closed in 2008. This email address has not received bulk email from MSF since it was re-enabled after its timeout period in early 2010. Since this is a single spamtrap hit, I suspect that MSF is mailing a very old list of donors after allowing it to remain uncontacted for years. MSF might also have purchased a list. The ESP is Lyris.
Dec
24
JAM Software: sending to outdated addresses, not respecting opt-out
JAM Software are mailing addresses at a domain they know to have changed hands. They’re ignoring the opt-out, too. So, it’s just spam now. I’ve also forwarded one of these (in Dec 2010) to the person named in the mail at his current address; no reaction, and mail to this outdated address continues, too.
Dec
23
Avecto: sending to outdated addresses
Avecto may have had the previous owners of the domain as customers. I couldn’t tell. This is the first I hear of them during my ownership of the domain spanning Dec 29, 2009 to present, so they’re most definitely mailing to outdated addresses. The ESP here is Marketo.
Dec
21
AthenaSecurity: spamming
AthenaSecurity.net, a domain owned by Lisle Technology Partners, LLC, of Lombard, IL, is spamming. The address involved has not been given to anybody for inclusion on a mailing list, and it doesn’t appear in any web resources either. The mail doesn’t contain any hints as to where the address was obtained, why, and how. I wonder if this qualifies as mainsleaze or just the garden variety of spam.