Saturday, October 24, 2009

How do scammers get my email address?

Every other day I get an email that's a scam. Usually talking about needing someone to do a money transfer. How do these people get the average joe's email address? When I take a look at the part that says "To" , my address is never in there, it's always left blank. So how does an email get to me that's not even addressed to me?
How do scammers get my email address?
sometimes companies sell email adresses. and sometimes these scammers just type a name in and send it.and unfortunately you get it, and so do i
Reply:If you fill in one survey or some other thing, the e-mail is out there.





How do you think that hacker got Palin's private lap top e-mail??





If you are a "Nerd" like my bright son, they can do anything and that





knowledge can be used to taunt us and it would be exhilarating to them.





In much of my inbox they have my first Name-It is really annoying





because LIKE you read the listing to make sure it is not something





important.





The woes of technological advancement.





Peace!!Nancyl2
Reply:im not sure,.... but when ever u fill out a membership card/register online, then they sell that info, and thus u might be getting emails from that.. they only thing that u can do (that i kno of) is mark it as spam (and make sure ur Spam filtration is on) and then possible ask someone who is an expert at online stuff.

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