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Originally Posted by Visitor
Beats me how they get all my email addresses, one of them is never used on the internet for anything, with a @yahoo for the internet, they still send to it..
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Loooooooooads of ways.
Yahoo and M$N sell the address lists they provide on to mailers (I set my father up with a hotmail address and clicked the inbox to show him how to use it and found spam waiting for him. All in uder two mintues).
You can be 'harvested' by registering on a web site with insuffucient security.
You can have insufficient security on your own p.c., firewall etc.
Someone can forward an e-mail from you without removing your address and eventually you can find yourself on an address list.
Providing your e-mail address to a free service, ie. these virtual greeting card sites (nothing's really for free, in this case you pay with your e-mail address).