>I have an email account with my ISP that has never, not even once, been
>used to send mail to anyone, anywhere.  I don't use it, never have, never
>will.  But somehow this email address gets upwards of 30 to 50 SPAMs per
>day.  Wonder how the SPAMmers got that one?  The only way I can think of
>is someon at the ISP selling the list.  Ditto for a Hotmail account I have
>never once sent mail from or used anywhere, ever.  Somehow the SPAMmers
>get it.

There are many tactics used, and "lucky guessing" is one of them.
I'm allowed 6 email users with my dialup account and for various
reasons I have used several of them.

The one with the username "barryg" gets hit a lot (along with CC:s
to barryh, barryi, barryj, and so on).

The one called "lilo-boot" NEVER gets any.  :-)

Then I made up one to be used for getting list messages.  Brilliant
me, I named it "mailist".  Hoo boy, that one is very popular!

Barry

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