Cellectis SA: Spamming scientists
Cellectis SA, a worldwide pioneer in Genome engineering, is spamming addresses harvested from scientific publications. The ESP is EmailVision, whose anti-spam policy unequivocally prohibits the sending of unsolicited emails.
Spamming IP: 81.92.123.13
Spam headers:
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Human-readable spam contents:
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The spam has been steadily trickling in, so I figured I’d mention this to Emailvision and ask them to participate in the discussion here. That they refused to do, but had this to say:
Everybody is welcome to draw their own conclusions.
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:0x:xx +0200 (CEST)
From: “Luc Selig, Ph.D.” <bioresearch-ealert@bioresearch.cellectis.com>
Reply-To: Luc Selig <enquire01@cellectis-bioresearch.com>
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Subject: Custom TALEN(tm) Services, the next generation gene customization
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It bears to be mentioned that the sending IP, along with every other address owned by EmailVision, is listed by Trend Micro MAPS RBL+. The listing dates from mid-November 2010.
As per the other posting this account is suspended and pending investigation
Hi, Andrew — good to “see” you here!
Atro — Emailvision has a bad past, but I heard a couple of months ago that the new Abuse person there was cleaning house significantly, and I’ve started to see a down trend in spam sent from Emailvision to my spamtraps. Considering how long Emailvision’s problems had been going on, it will probably take a while to clean things up, but I’m hopeful that they will.
Trend Micro’s MAPS+ is a fairly opaque RBL. I haven’t had an account there for eight or nine years, but scuttlebut in the anti-spam community suggests that it might not be updated often. I would take the SBL, Spamcop, and the PSBL more seriously for assessing the current blacklist reputation of emitting iPs. Also, I’d check Ironport’s SenderBase and ReturnPath’s SenderScore for IP reputation.
Thanks SpamBouncer for the vote of confidence.
InfiniteMho Not every IP address we have is listed in MAPS and I defer to the comments made by SpamBouncer IRO of the MAPS RBL
I will look to once again attempt engage with MAPS in due course however at this stage other things have taken priority, such as more responsive organisations including SpamHaus, blogs such as this one, certain ISPs and most recently SpamCop have started dialogue with me.
My efforts have thus far been best applied in these areas.