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How Did You Get Spam In the First Place?

This entry is part 20 of 29 in the series Securing Your PC On the Internet

Posted Jan 16, 2008 by Rich Menga  

We’ve all experienced this. You sign up for a brand new email account, maybe having switched internet providers. You are getting no spam because nobody knows your email address. But, over time, you begin to get more and more spam until, before too long, its as if you never changed your email address. It can leave you baffled. How the hell did they get my email address?

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