Mailing List Reminder Spam

Unless I'm very much mistaken, I have received my first ever piece of spam masquerading as a mailing list reminder.

I've never been to this website associated with the email, much less subscribed to a list. A little bit of investigating shows that although this company has a mailing list server, it has (at the time of writing) no actual lists configured. A quick whois query revealed that the owner of the sell-my-stuff.com domain is a company called NH Web Host (who I won't reward by linking to their site), and the domain administrative contact address is baconda@nhwebhost.net.

You should never put an undisguised email address on a public website, as that email address will be harvested by spam bots, and will shortly receive a greatly increased amount of spam. Whoops.


This is a reminder, sent out once a month, about your
sell-my-stuff.com mailing list memberships. It includes your
subscription info and how to use it to change it or unsubscribe from a
list.

You can visit the URLs to change your membership status or
configuration, including unsubscribing, setting digest-style delivery
or disabling delivery altogether (e.g., for a vacation), and so on.

In addition to the URL interfaces, you can also use email to make such
changes. For more info, send a message to the '-request' address of
the list (for example, d51-request@sell-my-stuff.com-txt-link-abbreviated">d51-owner@sell-my-stuff.com. Thanks!

Passwords for email@address.obfuscated:

List Password // URL
---- --------
d51@sell-my-stuff.com ivcarimo
http://mail.sell-my-stuff.com/mailman/options/d51_sell-my-stuff.com/email%40address.obfuscated