Re: mailchip and negative points - new phish?

I got the exact same one. This part made me giggle though:

> Kind regards,
> an image of a man in a pink shirt next to an octopus

I didn't want to click the link because tracking link and other obvious 
reasons, but I should start signing all my mails like that.

Kind regards,
a man hunched over his keyboard next to two capybara plushies


On 1/21/26 4:50 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I just got an email from (last name replaced by doe in case this is
> legit:
>
>    From: Netcom<[email protected]>
>
> with new Ts&Cs and that my services are going to be migrated.  I'm not
> in the UK and I'm not a netcom customer.  That makes it spam.  But it
> looks okish, were I a customer.
>
> Further searching for this content to find a legit source was really
> hard, so it feels like phish.  It arrived
>    Received: from mail47.us4.mcsv.net (mail47.us4.mcsv.net [205.201.128.47])...
> and I've complained to mailchip.  That's all normal and it would not
> cause mme to write.
>
> I'm writing because this spam got a ton of negative points: -5.9!
> It seems that mailchimp in general, or this emitter, is registered as
> only sending opt-in mail.  Which is pretty clearly not true.
>
> Has anyone else been seeing spam via mailchimp, that is wrongly getting
> lots of negative points?
>
> I'll write to isipp.com support and see how that goes.
>
> -2.1 RCVD_IN_IADB_OPTIN     RBL: IADB: All mailing list mail is opt-in
>                              [205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
> -1.2 RCVD_IN_IADB_OPTIN_GT50 RBL: IADB: Opt-in used more than 50% of the
>                              time
>                              [205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
> -0.4 RCVD_IN_IADB_LISTED    RBL: Participates in the IADB system
>                              [205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
> -2.2 RCVD_IN_IADB_VOUCHED   RBL: ISIPP IADB lists as vouched-for sender
>                              [205.201.128.47 listed in iadb.isipp.com]
>
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Martin F (maf)
Systems Engineer, group.one / one.com