lol
you aren't the only one to get spam
my e-mail sometimes sounds like a metronome as the mails come pouring in.
there are two main sources
1 - websites you register on sell your e-mail to spammers (more widespread than you might think)
2 - they make them up using "bots"
first you hijack an e-mail server
the prog then sends
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
etc
then
[email protected]
[email protected]
etc etc
(imagine how fast a computer can do this!!)
pretty soon you've used every possible letter combination up to say 20 letters
and some of them MUST be real addresses.
even better ... some of the idiots (quite a lot!) will click on the unsubscribe link and become confirmed addresses which are sold to even more spammers .... and so it snowballs.
incredibly
of the above mentioned idiots some are stupid enough actually visit and even more incredibly to buy from the spam ... and so it goes on
(it's estimated that about 22% of UK surfers have at some time bought or given money to these parasites - we are officially the most gullible fools on the planet).
you see them here
"I've just visited a porn/pirate/music/film/etc site - and now I've got a window saying I'm infected with 12,000,000,000,000 viruses - despite paying �500 the message is still coming up - what can I do?"
there are lots of other methods as well ... hence the size of the problem.