Comments on: Spam http://www.waynetron.co.uk/technology/spam Gaming, Football, Music, Culture Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:40:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Leyton Jay http://www.waynetron.co.uk/technology/spam#comment-3 Leyton Jay Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:28:52 +0000 http://www.waynetron.co.uk/?p=79#comment-3 The main way in which people get hold of your email address is by those annoying chain emails people send out about dying kids or 'pass this on or have bad luck'. Every time you forward one of those you add more and more email addresses to the body, eventually that will go back to the person who sent it and they will have several hundred active email addresses of people who do check their emails. There are no dying kids, there is no bad luck, you're just helping people spam you. The main way in which people get hold of your email address is by those annoying chain emails people send out about dying kids or ‘pass this on or have bad luck’.

Every time you forward one of those you add more and more email addresses to the body, eventually that will go back to the person who sent it and they will have several hundred active email addresses of people who do check their emails.

There are no dying kids, there is no bad luck, you’re just helping people spam you.

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