They get e-mail addresses a variety of ways.
One way is to infect a PC with a Trojan horse (virus). Some of these
scan the hard disk for anything that looks like an e-mail addresses. If
you've posted to a newsgroup with your real e-mail address and anyone
who has read your post (or just downloaded the headers) gets infected
with one of these Trojans, then your e-mail address will be harvested.
The same can happen if anyone you have given your e-mail address to sent
an e-mail to gets infected with one of these Trojans.
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Mike -
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Peter C" wrote in message
ups.com...
On 2 Mar, 22:30, "Bruno" wrote:
"Bruce Hagen" escreveu na
bl...
You're welcome. They may well stop after awhile. Hopefully, they
will.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~
"Peter C" wrote in message
roups.com...
On 26 Feb, 01:52, "Bruce Hagen" wrote:
You can /filter in/ your mail, or live with what you see. I
believe they
are
from Asia, but would have to check the message headers to be
sure.
I just delete stuff like that, but there are some other options
using
OE,
but far from perfect.
Some Message Rule
Ideas:http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/messagerules.htm
Some tips:http://www.insideoe.com/tips/rules.htm
Controlling Junk Mail in Outlook
Express:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/.../junkmail.mspx
Message Rules not
working?:http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/faqs/why.htm#rules
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~
"Peter C" wrote in message
egroups.com...
Between 6am and 2pm Sunday 25th Feb I had no spam emails.
Between 2pm and 12 mid I had 10 of which 7 related to China
Fruit
Corp.
Am I to assume therefore that these 'nutters' are in the Uk and
decided to stay in bed Sunday am.
(I cannot find a way to prevent these from arriving I just
delete
them)
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Thanks Bruce.
I will, like you, continue just to delete them
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Since I raised this subject I have found that the number of spam
emails to my Yahoo email address has increased considerably, (these I
now direct to my bulk folder) .Just wondered if those idiots who
generate spam are getting into email addresses via Newsgroups ?
Peter.