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☀️ Spam is annoying. What's more annoying are all the ways spammers have to get our email addresses in the first place.
☀️ How spammers get you
Spammers get email addresses through data breaches, purchased lists, website and social media harvesting, guessing common formats, phishing attempts, public records, and malware. With so many sources available, spam is inevitable. There’s no perfect solution. Just mark it as spam and move on.
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Chapters
0:00 Spammers get my email address
0:56 Data breaches
1:30 Buying or renting lists
2:15 Website harvesting
2:40 Social media harvesting
2:50 Public Records
3:10 Guessing
4:40 Phishing
5:20 Malware
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