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anytime you sign up for anything, read any and all fine print, because you can also be signing yourself up for lots and lots and lots of spam, spyware, adware, and viruses. anjd all you have to do is put in your email into one place and your email can be sold to spammers across the world just to send you those advertisements. you gotta be very carefeul about that stuff, never put your email address into a website youve never seen before without doing some research.

When you make an account for any website, theres a box which says "send your email address to third parties" or some websites do it illegaly by selling your email address to other websites.

some of them are for signing up to things, just ignore them, report them to the domain they're under (gmail, hotmail etc) as spamming is against the terms of service for most email providers, dont reply to them, assuming that they dont know your email, then theyre just being sent at random, if you reply you will be confirming your own existence and will be come a target

From the form you fill in certain website, normally low credibility website or from application that create random email address

Remember when you where signing up for that game, you where downloading some backgroudn and screensavers, you thought you could get a cool new ipod and you signed up wiht ur email.... That's how they KNOW UR EMAIL!

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viruses sometimes do this! check your computer!

or people just guess! they make up email addresses and sent stuff, wen you sign up for something like msn it tells you if the address you want is available, they use it to find addresses, (if they cant have it, someone else has it and they send an email to it!)

properly i in no way study unsolicited mail stuff,it purely is going to the unsolicited mail area,i'm getting plenty approximately existence coverage,lol,they could think of im approximately to drop ineffective,lol,that is totally style of them,lol,to deliver me Emails.

get a spammer blocker, download one off the internet

sometimes by brute force...just by chance it goes to your inbox.

oftentimes they do it with "affliate websites" i.e. you sign up for this newsletter then the website for the newsletter gives your add to others who will spam you.

no way!!! this happens to me to its really annoying... i didnt even sign up for anything i have no idea how they get emails