Where do these people get your email address from?

The ones that keep telling you that you have won the lottery that you never entered and the Nigerians trying to give you money.

Where do these people get your email address from?
Often when you register on websites for free stuff, it isn't really free. It comes to you at the cost of your information being sold to marketing companies, who then in turn sell it to many other companies. And soon enough you get all kinds of junk mail both in your mailbox and e-mail, and phone calls. But you can block them by placing yourself on national do not call lists and unsubscribing from their mailings. By law, they have to honor your request.








Best of luck !
Reply:The lottery mails are scams, they just want your bank details to clean out your bank accounts. The Nigerian thing is also a scam ..... Don't be fooled.


If you hit a site, your IP address is flagged then your address is sent on to others or downloaded onto disc %26amp; auctioned off on certain sites like ebay.


One resent incident, some bought a second hand pc, in the hd of this pc was over 35,000 people's bank details, a disc was made %26amp; auctioned off on Ebay, the disc sold for 拢35.00.
Reply:They buy mailing lists. If you've given your email address to your cellphone network or internet provider or anything else that seems as legit, one of their sister companies or even an outside company can easily buy it off them.





TIP: Never ever give your email when you are filing in a personal info form. They never really need it.
Reply:Yea I got those too. Someone telling me that a bank in S.Africa has 7million dollars that they need to route to my bank account and all they need is my bank information....
Reply:i dont get those kind...mostly i get ones from colleges...which is stupid because im already in college....or i get stuff for guys (if you know what i mean) why would they send girls that. wtf?? and i get other stupid stuff....
Reply:It's from companies that sell them your information.... Be careful where you put any information on the internet...
Reply:I get emails from america about viagra. They haven't even got the right email address and I still recieve them. How?
Reply:They get them at random. They start like "A" and find all the different possibilities that can go with that letter.
Reply:Let me know when you find out. ---------------------
Reply:Somebody compiles lists, like 'Junk Mail' Lists....!!
Reply:usually these are the sources :





hackers sell them bulk of emails for few smackers





when u yahoo chat , ur id is hacked





HEY,,,,,,,,UVE JUST WON A MILLION





SEND ME UR DETAILS


BUY yourself some MAKE UP
Reply:From certain things you've given you e-mail to. They sell your E-mail to these people
Reply:I've never had one of these,but I keep getting mails from Canadians trying to sell me cheap viagara!!!...as if I needed that.
Reply:Some companies sell them emails
Reply:a big database somewhere
Reply:i did receive that at one point. normally they got it from emails that were used for chain emails.
Reply:people selling your information mostly...damn spammers
Reply:virus...
Reply:from Yahoo!Answers...
Reply:I gave it to them.
Reply:sources are many. my friends and contacts tell them