Guest guest Posted June 20, 2010 Report Share Posted June 20, 2010 One of the junk-mail practices in email is when a person's email is used to harvest the addresses in that person's contact list to make a mailing list of valid email addresses. Clicking on the link " verifies " that the email address is active. All these verified emails can then be sold as emailing lists to advertisers who want to buy an emailing list. A similar (but less invasive) practice of buying mailing lists has been used for decades by direct-mail advertisers. The spam contains a link, like the one in that " advertisement " email, that is used to qualify you as a person who is curious enough to click. I've gotten spam like that from email addresses I know, like my daughter's and work colleagues'. I've heard that if you get a random link, don't open it, even if you do recognize the email address that it comes from. So, if I get an email from my DD with a link to her wish list at her favorite retailer.com, I open it. If the link is to www dot someOtherNonsense dot dot dot, I delete without peeking. Eve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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