oatext.com, a domain name registered to an Indian-sounding individual in Romford, Essex, UK, but styling itself Open Access Text Pvt. Ltd Suite A, 36-40 Copperfield Road, Mile End, London, E3 4RR, UK, is spamming. Their privacy policy indicates they disapprove of the practice, but perhaps they figure it only applies to others. Their ESP of choice is Benchmark Email, who have unfortunately “excelled” in this sense before. We’re still waiting for them to confirm the termination of the previous long-term problem.
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Category Archives: ESP problem
RESOLVED: ESCALATION LISTING: Benchmark Email and iBioTool
Following Benchmark Email’s refusal to terminate the scientific spammer ibiotool.com / biotool.com, Scientific Spam have decided to create an escalation listing a week or two ago.
- 216.4.238.0/24
is listed because of spam sent by Benchmark Email on behalf of ibiotool.com/biotool.com. The X-campaignid: is 3982832.
As of today,
- bmsend.com
is also listed on our RHSBL. It is fully expected that this will cause false positives, so if ScientificSpam.net RHSBL users expect to receive mail sent by Benchmark Email, please allowlist accordingly. (Edit July 2020 for terminology)
RESOLVED: Herbert Open Access Journals on Mailgun
Herbert Open Access Journals (hoajonline.com, #165 on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2014 is spamming our traps through Mailgun, Rackspace’s ESP arm. This has been going on at least since November 2013.