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Phishing emails are just like spam – they’re largely sent at random. Spammers gather emails from all over the web: websites, newsgroups, legal and illegal mailing lists, etc. Sometimes it’s simply guesswork. The email addresses aren’t ever gathered from the companies that are spoofed in phishing, unless that information is somehow stolen.
