How do people who spam you get your e-mail address?

Usually if you register with some company, some have a space you can check, but judging from my email address, like 200 emails a day, i been round a lot of companies!!!

that indeed is a long answer.. One popular way is by including a graphic (sometimes hidden) in the email. Then when you open the email the graphic must be retrieved from a server where they can use PHP, or some other scripting language to parse your connection for certain pieces of info. The retrieval of the graphic also proves that the email was read and the spam actually got delivered to an account and not blocked.

Many of these tactics begin as totally random mailings. Your opening the suspected mail triggers the whole sequence of events and makes the problem worse.

When possible delete suspected spam UNOPENED

Try not to use unsubscribe links unless you truely did subscribe in the first place, because many are just ways of building lists of valid address for further spam.

Personally I have an account at nopeddlers.com I use for most correspondence, simply because it is impossible to spam it.

I think the most important thing to remember here is to treat spam as if it were a hot coal. Try not to toush it at all, delete it and get on with your day, report it to abuse, but do not attempt to contact the spammer yourself.

I will be writing some articles in my blog to elaborate on these techniques further, because I HATE SPAM too.

Sometimes when you sign up for certain things on the internet the websites give out your e-mail to make money from the spam sites. Hope that helped!

Money is in it ,your email address can be sold supplied and even given away free by almost every single company in the world

Always check the small print !!!!! most times though u dont have a choice becaus u cant exactly haggle the contract especially over the internet and why should u have too its supposed to be data protection but mostly that means details can be shared by whom we chooose only and not YOU ...

hope you get an answer to this cos id like to know too