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Why do I get First, sending spam email is cheap! A spammer can send out directly from his PCs hundreds of thousands of junk spam email that will only cost him/her a few dollars. |
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Second, many people do buy things And reply to junk email. NEVER EVER BUY ANY GOODS OR SERVICES ADVERTISED BY SPAM!... It just encourages more spam. If there is something advertised by spam email that you are interested in--go online and find it elsewhere. When you put the two reasons together
How Do Spammers Some example how your email address become public knowledge could
be due to
Spambot, Spam Zombies-Part
2 or Email Extractors are software tools very skilled at scouring the internet harvesting and culling up to 100,000 email addresses and hour from Websites, Forums, Alumni sites, news posts, etc., and spammers run them day and night. Opt-in or Optin Lists are quickly
becoming infuriating. These lists are developed by partnering with
legitimate websites which make you check Don’t send me offers, well
sooner or later you’ll forget to check one of the boxes, and you’re added
to an opt-in list. |
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They buy your name from a list. These
email lists have been around almost as long as the internet itself. For
only $100.00 anyone can buy a list of over 11 million addresses. These
lists were created by numerous unscrupulous website owners, and online
stores that would share or sell their customer’s information for some money. MX Server Extractors
programs exploit internet mail server protocols. When an email is
sent to you it is handed over to your Mail Provider’s server, which
starts communication with the sender...
Basically MX server
extractors mimic the communication
with the mail server without actually trying to send the message.... The MX server extractor is like
someone ring your
doorbell and ask if Joe is home--no one named "Joe" may be living in your house--however if that
someone
tries enough names--sooner or later
someone will stumble upon your correct email
name, and your mail server will say Yes.
Programs like these exist for
less than $100.00--spammers run them day and night mining over 5000 email
addresses per minute. Why do I get so much spam email? (End of Part 1) About spam zombies and spambot Part 2 |
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