Spam e-mail offers sent at random?

Spams can not get your e-mail unless you post it completely in a puplic page. like dudu@dude.com.

However, sometimes, they get you randomly as you said. I created a new yahoo account recently. When I came to check out my inbox, after a day or so, there were fake e-mails in the bulk folder!

You are truly a bad Badkitty, (1)snooping in his email, and (2)then blaming him for the spam he receives. It's not the fault of the receiver that they receive spam--by definition!

I receive spam about all kinds of subjects that I have never signed up for or looked at or surfed for.

It's such a huge s.t.r.e.t.c.h to blame the subject of spam on the person receiving it that it's just ridiculous.

On the other hand, if he has cookies from any of the sites in question, then that's a whole nuther deal. That means he's been to the sites. At some time. Whether it was before you or not, well....

I would suggest you have a talk about the subject, rather than snooping around & suspiscioning something that may not even be an issue

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There are a variety of reasons for this. The simplest explanation is he did subscribe or at least check out these sites at some point in the past.

However, it's also possible he entered his email address into a related site and the information was shared to solicit new people. It's also possible that these are just completely random or they got his email address some other way.

If the emails are from Match.com or Yahoo Personals then it's almost a certainty that he signed up at some point in the past. But it may have been a long time ago.

As for why you don't get this spam, the explanation could be as simple as the spam filter settings on your email account vs. his email account. Or it could mean the spammers just haven't gotten your email address yet.

There are basically 3 ways the scammers and the spammers get our e-mail addresses.

Once your email address is on a spammers list it is almost impossible to get it off. Right now, your e-mail address (along with millions of others) is on a CD being sold from the back rooms of software shops from Bangladesh to Botswanna and from Norway to the Netherlands.

Method #1--The spam-industry has programs that are continusously crawling the web looking for the "@" symbol which is a sure sign the the word before it and the domain name after it is an e-mail address! Therefore, one should never post there e-mail address on any sort of website or webpage including guestbooks, forums, or user profiles such as Yahoo's.

Method #2--The spam-industry uses programs that try sending e-mail to all known domain names. Example: a program might start trying to send out e-mails to everyone starting with aaaaa@INVALID.com and continue down to zzzzz@INVALID.com. Using a longer e-mail address will make this harder to do.

Method #3-- The spammers and scammers purchase e-mail addresses from disreputable websites that require you to enter your e-mail address. The biggest offenders are sites that claim they are giving away "this and that" for free often require that you enter your e mail address in a web form. Guess where that address ends up? Yup, it is sold to the spammers!

Good luck.

There are plenty of ways that SPAMmers can get hold of email addresses. Here are a few:

1.

You post your email on a public website...like a job board, a friends website, etc...

2.

You have some friend who likes to send jokes or other emails in bulk and doesn't know how to add everyone into the BCC field and they add the emails to some list for their own business you know nothing about and/or one of the email addresses is mistyped and goes to a malicious source and/or something similar.

3.

The spammer has a program that sends mail out to every possible combination of names to the main web mails... and yours just happens to be amongst that combination... and/or if you hit the opt-out you now have verified your email address is valid and then it gets added to more lists.

4.

You sign up for something using that address and they continue to send you crap and all of their businesses and/or business affiliates send you spam.

5.

Someone malicious adds your email to any of the above in order to have people spam you.

etc...

Regardless of how it happens... you should report ALL spam to the authorities....

NOTE: hen reporting spam you must be sure to forward the email including the full header information... whether you have to paste it in or whether it automatically forwards.

such authorities to report to are:

Spam@UCE.gov which is the Federal Trade Commission address forreporting spam and fraud and you can also file a complaint at their website.

If you know how to read the full headers and performa WHOIS then you can also report the emails to the ISP the x-originating-ip traces back to.

The reply-to address is usually faked but in some cases you will see a valid address included in the body of the email... such as a gmail or yahoo account... you can also report the spam to them.

Unfortunately, yahoo and others do not properly handle the abuse and you usually need to spell out to them the tracing for them to act on your report... this is very sad... however, if you keep a record of the spam you can always file a civil action against these people.. take a stand.. it's better than simply blocking them and allowing them to continue to abuse your fellow mankind.

Good Luck

ps.if the sites sending the spam are valid... or known to not be malicious... send a request to be REMOVED from their list. By law they MUST include a means to opt-out. I do NOT recommend clicking on links to be removed but by law they MUST remove you if you request it. And if they are sites where he actually has an account then he should look in the preferences of his account to turn off subscriptions.

I study Internet Technology and the verdict is: He is visiting some of the links he says is spam. However, some of it could be spam, because if you don't have pop up blocker on, you're going to get stuff form people who have your URL, email address. Additionally, you can check his history files by just clicking the down arrow in the address bar, it only list site paths that have been visited. One way to block this stuff, besides call it spam in your mail, is to block it by putting only those sites that you allow into your URL setup. I believe this is under your advance tab for tools, Internet settings. Also, remember if you visit a site, that information is sometimes sold to other companies.

Did you know that big businesses sell CD's packed with emails of different users to spam?

Once someone has your email online, you are going to get spam unless you physically mark it as spam. Most likely, he may have just registered for a website or forum, then the email was simply passed around. Just ask him to mark everything he gets like that as spam, and it's not as likely to happen in the future from the same email address.

I am a male, and I dont go to any dating sites, i get plenty of spam from datings sites and porn and viagra etc. on one of the yahoo accounts that I use for signing up on sites like imdb, amazon, web forums for cars and motorcycles etc. One of them probably sold my email addy and the fact that i am a guy. Nothing more.

Now if he is getting emails saying that a specific person is trying to get get in touch with him, and it sounds like a real human and not a form letter email... that might be different.

It usually depends on two things:

1) what sites you register on

If you register on a lot of sites, chances are they will sell your email address for money (less than a penny for thousands of email addresses at a time). Then, advertisers can use it to spam.

2) the complexity of your email address

If you have a simple address like "princessgirl24@yahoo.com", then it is easy to just send out email to addresses which are made up of words in the dictionary. Make an address with unusual letters and/or symbols, and you should have less spam.

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