How Do They Get My Email Address?
Spammers have several ways of getting legitimate email addresses - including yours. Some of the common ways are:
1. the error page (invoked when an incorrect aspx or web page is referenced) shows myemail@mydomain dot com
- this can be fixed by putting in a way to automatically send an email (thus hiding) rather than relying on the user to do it.
2. an old copy of the contact us page was found. It had myemail@mydomain.com on it.
- the cached copies of the old program containing myemail@ will eventually disappear.
3. has myemail@mydomain.com been used to register at any websites? If so they could have sold or given away email addresses.
4. Since info@ is very common email address to use for domains the spammer could have guessed that info@ existed. Spammers usually try common email addresses such as info@, test@, etc hoping for a hit.
Read the entire article about how spammers get your email address.
Doug