How Do Spammers Get Email Addresses?
There are numerous tools at the spammers disposal to harvest your email address for spamming purposes and most of them are avoidable if you are net smart. • 1) Harvesting email addresses from message boards, newsgroups and forums. Email harvesting tools can scrutinise throusands of page from message forums etc. and pluck email addresses out from the code to be added to spam lists. When posting on message boards etc. ensure your email address is not displayed in your profile, message signature or elsewhere where it is accessible. • 2) Personal/Commercial Websites Using similar tools, if your contact email address is displayed anywhere in the code of your website an email spammer can harvest it using automated tools specially desgned for the purpose. • YOU Give It To Them! Have you ever noticed how many sites want you to give them your email address in exchange for a free download, competition entry or other freebie. These sites want to contact you later which is what they want your emai
