Dec
03

Bluebiit: Spamming to sell electronic gadgets

Bluebiit (see earlier post) have moved house and are now spamming from the network of Suncomet.com, to purchased lists obtained from Suomen Markkinointirekisteri Oy and Digimediatoimisto Haikuu as before. The spam-advertised domain www.tabletkauppa.com is hosted by Suncomet at the IP address that sent the spam.  The bluebiit.fi domain is hosted at [95.211.81.136] (rDNS “c3-suncomet.com”) by LeaseWeb in the Netherlands.  The bluebiit.com domain is hosted at [188.117.44.76] (“india-76.srv.hosting.fi”) by Nebula, as before.  The spam-advertised online shop kauppa.bluebiit.com is hosted by Sigmatic at [80.69.161.35] (“grid1b.sigmatic.fi”).
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Nov
22

Verkkotarjous.com: Spamming Finns from “Panama”

These spams have been seen in addresses found in emaildump.txt, the Finnish equivalent of the Millions CD and the bestest address source around. Others have spotted it before me.

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Oct
15

Power Competence: Selling business presentation skills to spamtraps

Power Competence Oy (see biz reg, www) joins the hordes of those businesses who figured purchasing a mailing list from Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media / bisnesrekisteri.fi was a good idea. Unsubs and sending, I think, are handled by Developer’s Helsinki, aka netmonitor.fi, whose Terms of Service don’t seem to contain a single word on the topic of using the service to send unsolicited bulk email.  Their services, in turn, are provided by Nebula, whose current Terms of Service (apparently only available in Finnish) don’t contain a single word on the topic.  The old ones at Nebula, valid for contracts made before June 1, 2012, said that the customer is not allowed to use the Service for direct marketing that is either illegal or against good manners or to advertise their service in newsgroups, discussion forums or in other places where it is forbidden to do so. (My translation.)  The argument that all spam is against good manners doesn’t ring a bell with them, apparently.

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Aug
27

Bestbiit/Bluebiit: Illegally spamming to advertise electronic gadgets

Bestbiit Oy (see biz reg), d/b/a Bluebiit, a Finnish startup, is spamming to advertise its goods, and I already mentioned them in this capacity elsewhere.  There is nothing inherently surprising about this.  Their spams have no plaintext content, so they violate every item of the spam legislation (not being identifiable as marketing, not having a mechanism for removal, and not describing the address list used).  Unfortunately the Helsinki City Marathon organisation allowed them on as a sponsoring vendor (so I got to tell them off to their face; “we remove everybody who complains” said the young man and probably believed it was OK to spam as long as you did; unfortunately it’s not even true that they would do that) and they’ve got our recent Olympic silver medalist as a promotional face, too.  Shame, shame!

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Jul
17

SH-Group Oy d/b/a Data Media Gazelle / kuriero.fi: Yet another small-time spammer for hire from Finland

SH-Group Oy, also doing business as Data Media Gazelle, under the domain name kuriero.fi, is spamming addresses found on “public Internet pages and Fonecta Kohdistamiskone B2B” with ads for their spamming service.  How anybody bothers setting up one in this day and age is beyond me.  I wish you all could read their press release (only in Finnish), it’s got practically every item in Rhyolite Software’s excellent Spam Is That Which We Don’t Do list. I particularly like the argument that apparently spam is environmentally friendly.

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Mar
28

StarPoint: Selling entertainment performers to spamtraps

Oy StarPoint Ab (see biz reg) is selling entertainment services to spamtraps. The ESP is Suomen IT-Ratkaisut Oy (viestisuora.fi).
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Feb
28

Stupido Shop: Selling records to spamtraps

Stupido Shop, a record store in downtown Helsinki, is spamming record ads to spamtraps. Their ISP Nebula was notified of their processing of outdated and erroneous personal information on February 6, before the spamtraps opened for business. That seems to have led to nothing at all.

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