How to determine if email is spam and if spam, how do they get information?

Spam is any message that's sent to multiple recipients who haven't specifically requested the message. In other words, spam is crap.





Spammers typically purchase or harvest a list of email addresses. They send messages from numerous different addresses to all areas of the Web. These messages tend to be "forged," to hide who actually sent them.





Where ever your email address is seen. Like signing up for things, blogs, groups, bulletins , wanted ads, chatting, emails, surveys, purchases, etc .

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