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16

Santa Cruz Biotechnology: Spamming to sell scientific supplies

As with Proteogenix, here’s another bunch who figure the act of publishing a scientific paper serves as a form of granting consent to be added to all sorts of mailing lists.

Spamming IP: mail.scbt.com [64.166.169.131]

Spam headers:

Return-Path: <santacruzbiotechnology@scbt.com>
Received: from scbt.com (mail.scbt.com [64.166.169.131])
        by x (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id x
        for <x>; Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:5x:xx +0200
Received: from [192.168.2.104] (HELO localhost)
  by scbt.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.3.4)
  with ESMTP id x for x; Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:5x:xx -0800
Mime-Version: 1.0 
Content-Type: text/html;
        charset="US-ASCII";
        format=flowed
Subject:281 New Antibodies Available from SCBT
To: x
CC: 
From: Santa Cruz Biotechnology<santacruzbiotechnology@scbt.com>
Message-ID:<x@scbt.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:5x:xx -0800

Human-readable spam contents: None. The message has no plaintext part at all. Here’s the end of the HTML part:

Copyright © 2012 Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. Santa Cruz
Biotechnology, Inc. and the Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. logo

are registered trademarks of Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.
All content contained in this website is property of Santa Cruz Biotechnology,
Inc. and may be used only with the expressed written permission of Santa
Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. All rights reserved.
Santa
Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. is located at 2145 Delaware Avenue, Santa Cruz,
CA 95060 USA
Email: webmaster@scbt.com

 
If you desire to not receive
our e-mail bulletins at x, simply unsubscribe
or forward this email message to webmaster@scbt.com.
Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc.

3 Responses to Santa Cruz Biotechnology: Spamming to sell scientific supplies

  1. oneillkza
    February 29, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    Yeah Biotech spam. I have only one paper published, but in the past two months alone, I’ve received

    Lab equipment spam from:

    BioDirect, Inc
    AssayGuru
    Applied Biological Materials Inc.

    Conference spam from:

    OMICS Publishing Group
    EPS Inc.
    Engineering Information Institute(Engii)
    International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS)
    SemanticWeb.com

    Journal spam from:

    OMICS Publishing Group

    Most of the above are pretty shady companies to begin with (see for instance the randomly generated papers sent to and accepted by IIIS conferences in 2005).

    But I once got spam from Nature Publishing Group (about 3 years ago), which I had a bit of an email exchange with them about. They got all defensive and insisted that they had gotten my email address from a “legitimate” email list, containing only opted-in emails. They’ve stopped spamming me, but a quick Google search shows that they continue to spam others.

  2. InfiniteMho
    June 11, 2012 at 8:35 pm

    They’re also involved in rather more generic spamming. Needless to say, in the meantime there have been about a bazillion scientific spams to the scientific spamtraps. These aren’t scientific spamtrap hits.


    Return-Path: <santacruzcanine@e.scbt.com>
    Received: from mail.e.scbt.com (unknown [64.166.169.141])
    by x (Postfix) with ESMTP id x
    for <x>; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 21:mm:ss +0300 (EEST)
    Received: by mail.e.scbt.com (Postfix, from userid 501)
    id x; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:mm:ss -0700 (PDT)
    To: x
    Subject: Canine Flea and Tick Products from Santa Cruz Animal Health
    X-PHP-Originating-Script: 501:maildecrem_new.php
    From: Santa Cruz Canine Health <santacruzcanine@e.scbt.com>
    Reply-To: No Reply <noreply@e.scbt.com>
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-type: ext/html; charset=iso-8859-1
    Message-Id: <2012060418mmss.x@mail.e.scbt.com>
    Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 11:29:12 -0700 (PDT)

    And

    Return-Path: <santacruzcanine@e.scbt.com>
    Received: from mail.e.scbt.com (unknown [64.166.169.141])
    by x (Postfix) with ESMTP id x
    for <x>; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:mm:ss +0300 (EEST)
    Received: from localhost (unknown [192.168.2.31])
    by mail.e.scbt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id x
    for <x>; Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:mm:ss -0700 (PDT)
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/html;
    charset="US-ASCII";
    format=flowed
    Subject: eceive a complimentary hardcover copy of Soldier Dogs
    To: x
    CC:
    From: Santa Cruz Animal Health <santacruzcanine@e.scbt.com>
    Message-ID: Wed_Jun__6_11-mm-ss_2012x==@e.scbt.com>

  3. Tom Mortimer
    June 12, 2012 at 12:01 am

    I should contact the master of college at my university and ask whether they would be open to donating some spamtraps to Spamhaus…. 🙂 I believe that might be a fruitful source of information for us.

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