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Originally Posted by monkeybreath
If you view the image in the email (normal a 1 x1 pixel clear image) then you effectively visiting the spammers site; if i sent you an email with an image for example www.mydomain.com/image.jpg and you viewed it, the html would cause your email client to access www.mydomain.com/image.jpg to download the image. The spammer can then view the logs on their server to see the ip addresses that have accessed the site. I am sure they have programs that can automatically log this and so the spamming continues...
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But that way they would have a list of ip addresses, not email addresses do they? So how do they determine the email address exists? (Or am I missing something obvious here?