Gevalia's spam gang at it early today
The latest junk mail from Gevalia's spam gang was sent at 22:36 on Feb 1st from an email address at butterflight.info
The domain butterflight.info was registered on Jan 31, 2011. One day before it was used for its first spam run promoting Gevalia's coffee.
The 'owner' is Tina Santana. And as usual with the Gevalia spam gang tactics, the registration contains a real phone number...which belongs to a real person who isn't and knows nothing about Tina Santana.
And for a change, I got to them first. The owners of the phone number say they've had the number for more than five years and no, they haven't had any other calls complaining about spam.
"You will," I told them, before explaining that the Gevalia spam gang had hijacked their phone number to use in the typically phony registration info they provide in order to hide their identity.
The spamming domain is hosted by Sharktech.net - google 'Sharktech spam' and you'll find all of the markings of a black hat ISP that protects the spammers on their network.
Another favorite home of the Gevalia spam gang is LimestoneNetworks.com - one of the ISPs that we routinely block from our mail servers for, shall we say, a history of sending email we don't need.
So the pattern further defines itself: Kraft (the owner of Gevalia and the subject of a 2005 lawsuit for spamming - just like this) and Gevalia collect email addresses, without the address owner's permission, and start spamming said email address and share it with Kraft / Gevalia's partners.
Now in case you didn't know, Kraft is the largest food processing company in North America. They have MANY affiliates and partners. So once y0ur email address is tossed into the Kraft / Gevalia Spaminator - you're done for.
-g
