MainSleaze

UKangaroo Marketing, an search engine and social media marketing company, sent bulk email advertisements for their services to a number of spamtraps last night. Some of these spamtraps are pure spamtraps; they never existed at all. This company appears to have spammed a purchased list; with this number of spamtrap hits, other explanations are simply too implausible. The ESP is Sendgrid.

The domain ukangaroomarketing.com is registered with Whois Privacy Protection Service, a whois cloaking service much favored by spammers. That fact left me thinking about whether this company should qualify as a mainsleaze company at all rather than simply a spammer spamming to market their own services, but I giving them the benefit of the doubt. However, take note: if you want me or most antispammers to see you as a legitimate company, registering your mailserver domain with any sort of Whois cloaking service is NOT how to do it.

Sending IP: 50.31.33.207

Spam Sample:

Actual Headers:

Received: from o1.mail.ukangaroomarketing.com (o1.mail.ukangaroomarketing.com [50.31.33.207])
        by <xxx> (Postfix) with SMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Tue,  7 Feb 2012 12:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
DKIM-Signature: <xxx>
DomainKey-Signature: <xxx>
Received: by 10.36.xx.xx with SMTP id <xxx>
        Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
Received: from 127.0.0.1 (unknown [<xxx>])
        by <xxx>.sendgrid.net (SG) with ESMTP id <xxx>
        for <xxx>; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
        boundary="<xxx>"
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: ukangaroo <promotions@ukangaroomarketing.com>
To: <xxx>
Reply-To: replies@ukangaroomarketing.com
Subject: Put your business on Google and get more calls
Message-ID: <xxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:xx:xx -0600 (CST)
X-Sendgrid-EID: <xxx>
X-Sendgrid-ID: <xxx>
list-unsubscribe: <http://mail.ukangaroomarketing.com/wf/unsubscribe?<xxx>>

Readable Email:

From: ukangaroo <promotions@ukangaroomarketing.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: Put your business on Google and get more calls

Email not displaying correctly? View it (http://sendgrid.com/wf/webmail?<xxx> ) in your browser

GOOGLE FRONT PAGE PLACEMENT FOR YOUR BUSINESS!

No Hassle. We put your business on the front page of Google within 10 minutes.

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ukangaroo is a Google Engage Partner

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To unsubscribe please click here (http://mail.ukangaroomarketing.com/wf/unsubscribe?<xxx> )
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