faq:email:how-do-spammers-get-my-email
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| ==== 1. Robotic Scanners ==== | ==== 1. Robotic Scanners ==== | ||
| - | These scanners will scan through thousands of websites or social media a day to obtain and compile the email addresses found in the websites. The alias, @, character is usually used by the scanners to identify email address within the websites. | + | These scanners will scan through thousands of websites or social media sites a day to obtain and compile the email addresses found in the websites. The alias, @, character is usually used by the scanners to identify email address within the websites. |
| ==== 2. Sold Or Leaked Of Data ==== | ==== 2. Sold Or Leaked Of Data ==== | ||
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| ==== 3. Directory Harvest Attack ==== | ==== 3. Directory Harvest Attack ==== | ||
| - | Through this attack, the spammers will attempt to obtain valid email addresses using brute-force attack. It is where they will try guessing the username based on the common username used for email address by combining them or adding numbers to them. Receiving delivery failure status will determined that the emails are invalid. | + | Through this attack, the spammers will attempt to obtain valid email addresses using brute-force attack. It is where, they will try guessing the username based on the common username used for email address by combining them or adding numbers to them. Receiving delivery failure status will determined that the emails are invalid. |
| ==== 4. Fake Services Or Fake Newsletters ==== | ==== 4. Fake Services Or Fake Newsletters ==== | ||
| - | + | There are fake services or fake newsletters which are created by the spammers to obtain the email addresses. This method can tricks you to willingly disclose your genuine email address as you thought that it is a real deal. Therefore, you may use another free email account to subscribe the services/ | |
| - | There are fake services or fake newsletters which are created by the spammers to obtain the email addresses. This method can tricks you to willingly disclose your genuine email address as you thought that it is a real deal. Therefore, you may use another free email account to subscribe the services/ | + | |
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| - | + | Sometimes, you may forget about the newsletters that you have truly subscribed. Then, you suddenly received an email to unsubscribe their newsletter which you thought a genuine email. With no hesitation, | |
| - | When you click on this button or link, you are actually verifying that this is a valid email address to the spammers. So, the spammers would continue sending spam emails to your email address as they have confirmed your email address. | + | |
| ==== 6. HTML Content In Emails ==== | ==== 6. HTML Content In Emails ==== | ||
| - | + | As most of the email viewers allow displaying the HTML content such as images, | |
| - | As most of the email viewers allow displaying the html content such as images, you may mistakenly click on this. Same concept as the ‘unsubscribe’ button/ | + | |
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