T. Clausen wrote:
A while back, I created a hotmail address, with a completely random and
highly unlikely to guess account name. I never used it, never announced
it. Yet after 1 week, it had 74 spams.
Personally, I think that someone has a hook on the inside of hotmail
(actually, on the inside of Microsoft) for harvesting addresses.
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Unfortunately, it is much more simple than that. Your "Browser" has a cookie
that is reporting back to the spammer, without your knowledge.
John Cwiklinski
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