Why do so many junk mail?

I have 50 or 60 spam a day and I would like to know why when I am so careful what web sites I will!

Hello

Main methods spammers can harvest email addresses are:

1. analysis of the sites on the internet - Community Microsoft discourages email address
assignments in the nets for this reason.

2. hacking of email accounts, then using contacts.

3. false offer which, when you join also reveals an email address valid addy.

4 computer generated "conjecture". They send millions of them and some
hit.

5. hacking of sites that has e-mail addresses as online retailers, banks,
credit card companies and others.

They sell even SPAM lists to each other.

Twice I've been spammed on new email accounts with the account opening hours
and I had not yet used these accounts. Their names were very generic, so I wasn't
really surprised. Put spam filtering implemented and the problem has been resolved for the most part.

Bayesian filters<- these="" just="" some="" of="" those="">
http://email.about.com/cs/bayesianfilters/a/bayesian_filter.htm
http://getpopfile.org/
http://www.Spamihilator.com/
http://www.Codeode.com/spamfilter/index.html

PopPeeper is a powerful utility to prevent spam and malware from reaching your Inbox.

Get the PP and also get the PPTweaker - free
http://www.poppeeper.com/

PopPeeper - Forums
http://www.poppeeper.com/forums/

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More information and methods to prevent SPAM:

Don't forget to check with your email provider and support for any e-mail program you
Use.

If Hotmail, Windows Live Mail or Outlook.com check in the appropriate forum:

Community - Microsoft Account, Hotmail, SkyDrive Microsoft (and all things Windows
Forums Live)
http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive

For Outlook Express (XP) or Windows Mail (Vista)

Microsoft Community - Windows (select your version of Windows) - Email and
Communications forums
http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/ECOMS?page=1&tab=no&TM=1353005043622

For Outlook (select your version of Outlook)

Community Microsoft - Office - Outlook
http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Office/Forum/Outlook

For email to party 3 programs and providers to check with their support for the suggested methods
to control SPAM.

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SPAM and how to get rid of
http://email.about.com/od/spamandgettingridofit/Spam_and_How_to_Get_Rid_of_It.htm

How and where to complain about SPAM
http://email.about.com/od/spamandgettingridofit/a/report_spam.htm

Anti-SPAM fighting tips, tricks and Secrets
http://email.about.com/od/spamfightingtips/Spam_Fighting_Tips_Tricks_and_Secrets.htm

Top Six most effective tips to avoid Spam altogether
http://email.about.com/od/spamandgettingridofit/TP/most_effective.htm

What Email Headers can tell you about the origin of SPAM
http://email.about.com/cs/spamgeneral/a/spam_headers.htm

I hope this helps.

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