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How spammers can get your email address.

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Anonymous
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/harvest/

There are many ways in which spammers can get your email address. The
ones I know of are :# 1. From posts to UseNet with your email address.
Some chat clients on PCs behave similarily, so using IRC can cause
an email address to be given out to spammers.
Some sites use various tricks to extract a surfer's email address
from the web browser, sometimes without the surfer noticing it.

http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/

and that new page will contain its own totally new set of bogus E-mail addresses

Posted 12 years ago #
Jeff Hargreave
Member

Use file sharing at your own risk.
Same for IRC apps.

Remember, using the above makes you to easy pray.
Regardless how good you think your Firewall is, because most of that software overwrite the firewall policy to that software.

USE COMMON SENSE

Posted 12 years ago #

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