Reported Ford Motor Company Spam Email

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   [The following quotes a usenet newsgroup article found in news.admin.net-abuse.email]
From: Tero Paananen (tpp+googleusenet@iki.fi)
Subject: Eddy Marin (all-picks.com) spamming for MyFord
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Date: 2003-07-25 09:34:38 PST

Just got a nice little turdlet from our favorite cartooney wheeling scum, Eddy Marin.

Sent via his all-picks.com spam domain in his Internet America spam factory at:
NetRange: 69.60.0.0 - 69.60.15.255
CIDR: 69.60.0.0/20
blocked by everyone.

The interesting part of the spam is that it is advertising MyFord at fordvehicles.com. The copy is professional and has all the right logos et.al. It is sent in behalf of Ford, there's no question about it.

Who is the bright genius at Ford Motor Company that hired the scummiest spammer in the world to advertise for them?

Anyone have any contacts there? Their website was wholly uncooperative as far as finding any reasonable Email addresses to contact. Yes, I will make a phonecall as well.
-TPP

The Miama Herald reports: "Marin has spent time in jail for cocaine trafficking charges and is now facing a prison sentence for money laundering, a charge he says he's appealing."

 The Newsgroup article quoted above is archived at groups.google.com:
  Report in news.admin.net-abuse.email
A sample copy of the spam with headers showing the origin of the spam:
  Sample spam with headers and body in news.admin.net-abuse.email

More Online Background:
  Spamhaus.org SBL Listing of Eddy Marin IPs Referenced in This Article
  Spamhaus ROKSO: Spammers Thrown off Three or More ISPs. Eddy Marin Listed.
  Eddy Marin Business and Legal Info on spamhaus.org
  Miami Herald Article on Marin, Internet Porn King and Cocaine Trafficer
  Ford Motor Company Contact Information

The following newsgroup post was archived at google.com usenet archives.
The post contains headers purported to be a sample of the Ford spam email.
 
From: Norman L. DeForest (af380@chebucto.ns.ca)
Subject: Re: Eddy Marin (all-picks.com) spamming for MyFord 
View: Complete Thread (39 articles)  
Original Format 
Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.email
Date: 2003-07-26 16:25:54 PST 
 

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Richard Johnson wrote:

> In article <4f9d3d24.0307250834.31430b33@posting.google.com>,
>  tpp+googleusenet@iki.fi (Tero Paananen) wrote:
> 
> > Just got a nice little turdlet from our favorite cartooney
> > wheeling scum, Eddy Marin.
> > 
> > Sent via his all-picks.com spam domain in his Internet
> > America spam factory at:
> 
> 
> Can you post that particular spam to nanas?

I got a copy of that one, sent to the user-support mailing list here
and bounced to me as list-owner (actual list name snipped and other
possible identifying info and some of the gratuitous HTML snipped as
indicated -- note the popunder code (useless as I use pine 3.95.iB1.0 to
read my email)):

[snip extra set of headers generated by MajorDomo forwarding the spam to
my inbox for approval/disapproval]
: 
: Received: from lich.chebucto.ns.Ca ([192.75.95.79]:40367 "EHLO lich")
:         by halifax.chebucto.ns.ca with ESMTP id ;
:         Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:19:14 -0300
: Received: from host.all-picks.com ([69.60.9.218]:44294 "EHLO host")
:         by lich.chebucto.ns.ca with ESMTP id ;
:         Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:19:03 -0300
: Received: from listserv1 (172.60.1.2:1641) by host (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <3.0000000E@host>; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 9:54:54 -0400
: Date:   Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:54:37 -0400
: From:   MyFord 
: Reply-to: reply@all-picks.com
: Error-path: bounces@all-picks.com
: Subject: Ford Has An Online Home For Your Vehicle
: To:     [snip]@CHEBUCTO.NS.CA
: Mime-Version: 1.0
: Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [snip mailscanner headers]
: Message-Id: <20030725151908Z406532-1148+2679@lich.chebucto.ns.ca>
: Return-Path: <[snip]-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>
: X-Envelope-To: <"|/csuite/etc/majordomo/wrapper resend -l [snip] -h chebucto.ns.ca [snip]-mml"> (uid 1)
: X-Orcpt: rfc822;"|/csuite/etc/majordomo/wrapper resend -l [snip] -h chebucto.ns.ca [snip]-mml"
:  [snip]
: My Ford: Your Vehicle’s Personalized Online Home 
: