May
09
London Theater Direct Wants an Audience
They appear to think that spamming a purchased list will provide them with one. Unfortunately, they have spammed several overworked engineers at my company, a retired nurse who lives several hundred miles north and hates to travel, and an exhausted new father in Leeds (me), along with a few actual spamtraps. If they thought that they were getting a list of London area residents, they were scammed. The ESP was IContact.
Source IP: 216.27.86.170 and others in the same /24
Headers:
Received: from drone113.ral.icpbounce.com (drone113.ral.icpbounce.com [216.27.86.170])
by <redacted> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <redacted>
for <redacted>; Tue, 8 May 2012 <redacted>
DKIM-Signature: <redacted>
Mime-Version: 1.0
From: "LondonTheatreDirect.com" <donotreply@londontheatredirect.com>
To: <redacted>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 <redacted>
Subject: Win Chicago tickets and excellent theatre ticket offers
Errors-To: bounces+<redacted>@icpbounce.com
List-Unsubscribe: <https://app.icontact.com/icp/listunsubscribe.php?<redacted>>
X-List-Unsubscribe: <https://app.icontact.com/icp/listunsubscribe.php?<redacted>>
X-Unsubscribe-Web: <https://app.icontact.com/icp/listunsubscribe.php?<redacted>>
X-ICPINFO: <redacted>
X-Return-Path-Hint: bounces+<redacted>@icpbounce.com
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="<redacted>"
Message-ID: <<redacted>@drone113.ral.icpbounce.com>
I didn’t expect to see you for another few months. Baby sleeping through the night already? 🙂
This outfit is hitting spamtraps here as well, although not many. Their list might be poorly targeted, but they don’t appear to be hitting large numbers of spamtraps outside of Europe. Let us know what happens.
She is. And sleep is WONDERFUL. 🙂
So they’re not hitting you Yanks? That does suggest a minimally targeted list. They have hit enough spamtraps at Spamhaus to justify an SBL, but as usual we have more urgent spam issues that take precedence. I hope that my blog convinced them to reconsider their marketing strategy.
I’ve had no word so far from Andrew @IContact, but he might well have acted and simply not have results to report yet. He does a good job.
Hi Tom and Catherine,
Sorry for the delay in responding to this one. The account was suspended when we saw Tom’s report.
Thanks,
Andrew.
I’ll ping Tom and see if he’s seen any more spam from them. But good to hear!