lauisifer wrote:
Not true, I have always had my email address listed and never got spam, now that i say that, I prolly will. Ok youve convinced me im removing it.
Listed? As in "publicise email"?
There's a difference between having your email shown under your account information and posting it in a thread on a forum which can be viewed by anyone.
An email scanner would sweep through this thread and pick up the email address. You would then start receiving spam from various companies.
Often they compile all the emails and sell them on the Black Market of Spam. A list of emails is a list of potential customers and is pretty valuable. Perhaps you're not getting any spam now, but if/when they sell the list to a spammer, you'll get flooded.
I receive inbetween ten and twenty spam mails every single day.
My record was during the summer holidays while I was in France. When I came home two weeks later, I had 318 spam mails in my inbox.
Edited, Nov 28th 2006 2:29am by Mazra