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Originally Posted by testcard
I created a new email address in the normal way on Wednesday. This address has not been used...
Any ideas
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You don't say what the address is (don't worry, we won't spam you!) but if it's something simple like "john.smith@hotmail.com" or "fred11723@yahoo.com" then the chances are you're the victim of a "dictionary attack" where a spammer simply rings the changes on every possible permutation of an address to send their rubbish out.
The dates of the spams aren't necessarily the actually dates of posting as some spammers fake them (as well as the sending addresses etc)
Unfortunately there's very little you can do about this except to sign up to services like Spam Killer
