How do Spammers get e-mail addresses?
A. There are a number of ways that an e-mail address can fall into the hands of a Spammer. Lists of e-mail addresses can be purchased, just like many bulk mailing companies purchase lists of people’s addresses. Giving out your e-mail address through a form on a webpage is another way, as is going into chat rooms on the Internet. In some cases, Spammers have gotten ahold of e-mail addresses by looking in the “From” field of a forwarded message, which often contains the e-mail addresses of everyone who has received the message.
