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How the spammers find you

How the spammers find you

Posted Apr 22, 2003 11:30 UTC (Tue) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
Parent article: How the spammers find you

I would imagine that time is a very important factor in how much and what kind of spam you get. The results of such a survey running for a month would likely be very different from the same survey running for 3 years.

This is offcourse because many spammers get their email-adresses, not from any of the sources mentioned in this article, but rather from other spammers. (indeed much spam is advertising "100 million fresh email-adresses") Thus, once an adress starts receiving spam it will only ever get worse, never better.


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