How do Spammers get peoples Email Addresses?
Email addresses are obtained from many sources for Spamming purposes, including but not limited to: • From posts to UseNet with your email address. • From mailing lists. • From web pages. • From various web and paper forms. • From a web browser. • From IRC and other chat rooms. • From domain contact points. • By guessing email addresses. • By having access to the persons computer through trojan viruses. • From a previous owner of the email address. • Using social engineering. Refer to http://www.private.org.il/harvest.html for more information.
