Tokyopop Spamming Newsletter Subscribers?

Humberto Saabedra

Final TokyoPop LogoPicked this up on Twitter from a follower, but it looks like either Tokyopop or a third-party is spamming current newsletter subscribers with a completely unrelated offer for another newsletter as seen below:

[scribd id=56488215 key=key-n0u66k14gkpyyat0110 mode=list]

 

With the closure of Tokyopop’s publishing arm, it may be that the domain and mailing list was sold to a third-party, as all previous Tokyopop newsletters were sent via the standard do-not-reply email domain, while this one was sent from the webmaster@tokyopop.com domain.

[via @Quarteni on Twitter]

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