July 16, 2003

Stopping SPAM - How do spammers get my email address?

Some really good information over there about your SPAM problem.

Stopping SPAM - How do spammers get my email address?

So how to they do it?
1. From posts to UseNet with your email address.
2. From mailing lists.
3. From web pages.
4. From various web and paper forms.
5. Via an Ident daemon.
6. From a web browser.
7. From IRC and chat rooms.
8. From finger daemons.
9. AOL profiles.
10. By guessing and cleaning.
11. From white and yellow pages.
12. From a previous owner of the email address.

Posted by akvalley at July 16, 2003 03:40 PM | TrackBack
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