How do spammers harvest email addresses?
Spammers scan UseNet for email address using ready made programs designed to do so. From Mailing list they attempt to get the lists of subscribers. • Spammers have programs which spider through web pages, looking for email addresses. • From web and paper forms. Spammers can get email addresses from those either because the form becomes available on the World Wide Web, or because the site sells / gives the emails list to others. • Use various tricks to extract a surfer’s email address from the web browser. Email addresses posted on various job sites, information sites. • Spammers harvest AOL names from user profiles lists. • From the email addresses posted on a public accessible site. • By guess work and making up of ids. • From chat sites. • Hacking sites. Hijacking mail servers Buying lists from others.
