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Why Do I Get Spam?
You have posted to public mailing lists/newsgroups
- Such lists/newsgroups are archived, and spammer bots (scripts) read through them to harvest legitimate email addresses.
You have used online services that required an email
- Service providers regularly sell the personal information of their subscribers
You have received email from a friend with a free web mail address
- Outgoing email addresses are harvested and sold to spammers
Notes:
It's quite impossible to protect your email address against harvesting from online sites.
Just focus on staying off the really nasty databases that spam you mercylessly.