How do junk mailers get email addresses?
There are several methods. One is simply buying lists of emails from on-line companies. If you have purchased something on-lie, you may get junk mail. Junk mailers also have programs that scan the Internet for email address posted on web pages. Because of this certain people have warned against posting emails on web pages but I think this voids a vital purpose of the Internet, namely communication. Everyone should be able to post their email somewhere without worrying about junk mail, and to help we designed KnujOn! A third common method to send junk mail to range of possible addresses until a match is found. For example: aaa@hotmail.com, aab@hotmail, aac@hotmail… You may have received junk mail with various spellings of your name in the distribution list. One of the worst ways to harvest addresses is through viruses. Some viruses(trojans, spyware) infect email software and steal your contacts list. But with KnujOn, these individuals can be found and shut down.
