Sep
24

Hälyx: Selling security to spamtraps

Something calling itself “Hälyx” is advertising business security services to spamtraps.  The message contains the admission that the source of the register they operate, which they decline to name as required by law, are “public address sources on the Internet”.

The spam service provider is Panic Marketing, no stranger to us here, unfortunately, who also operate the web bug in this message (“<img src=’http://static.dmt.panic.fi/scripts/handle_reademail.php?x=<timestamp.x.x.swift@dmt.panic.fi>’>).

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Sep
19

Bisnesrekisteri.fi / Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media: Deliberately violating opt-out, deliberately processing outdated and erroneous personal information

No need for copy of any kind, as the message is the same as yesterday. Only the target address matters here, and that’s trivial to deduce. Headers below, anyway.

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Sep
18

Bisnesrekisteri.fi / Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media

More spam just in from the spammer at Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media advertising the spam registers for sale at bisnesrekisteri.fi. Now the mails contain a disclaimer to say “This is an advertisement meant for companies that does not require prior consent according to law.” Well, it’s still spam, and it gets listed and otherwise treated as spam nonetheless.

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Sep
13

How not to manage a mailing list, or: The Importance of Confirming Opt-Ins

Somewhere out there, there’s a web page that contains a “sign me up for the mailing list” link.

Somewhere out there, there’s a person with a grudge. Maybe a disgruntled spammer.

The two meet.

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Sep
13

Bisnesrekisteri.fi / Lateralus Enterprise / Tavoite Media

The Data Protection Ombudsman doesn’t want me to say his name out loud, but surely I can continue to state that bisnesrekisteri.fi, which is owned by Lateralus Enterprise, is again involved in spam.
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Sep
12

O’Reilly Media: We Spam You Because You’re Our Customer?! :(

Computing and technical books publisher O’Reilly Media, an old favorite of mine from whom I recently purchased several books directly, just sent a bulk email advertisement to the tagged email address that I provided them during the purchase. This email address has never been used except for that purpose. The ESP is iPost, a company that I had not heard of previously.

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Sep
12

Nordstrom: More High-End Clothing for a Spamtrap

Seattle-based department store Nordstrom is sending email advertisements to a recently re-enabled email address that closed in 2005. This spamtrap almost certainly never existed at all; the domain never had more than three or four live email addresses. The ESP is Cheetahmail, a subsidiary of Experian.

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Sep
12

Brooks Brothers: Fine Men’s Clothing for a Spamtrap

Brooks Brothers, the iconic U.S.-based high-end men’s clothing store, is sending bulk email advertisements to a recently-reenabled email address that, if it ever belonged to a real person, closed in 2004. The ESP is ExactTarget.

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Sep
11

Guess what? Lateralus Enterprise once again

Finnish spam with anonymized domain registrations, collaborators in India, spamming IP and hosting in Romania, target addresses outdated and erroneous personal ones from the Finnish Business Information System, legally required items on sender identification, address list source missing… Gee, I wonder who it is whose spam matches these characteristics?  We’ll know soon enough if Directi agrees to de-obfuscate email-offer.org, I guess.

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Sep
07

Mediakomppania: Advertising web page updating services to spamtraps

Mediakomppania (see biz reg), a Finnish private person carrying on trade, is doing their utmost to discredit their ISP, Hurja Solutions Oy. Hurja is aware of this and chooses to ignore the matter. By the spammer’s own admission, he is using purchased lists from Suomen Markkinointirekisteri Oy and Digitoimisto Haikuu.

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