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Old 29 Jun 2020, 05:22 AM   #4
TenFour
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You never know--there could be a million reasons, which is why good spam filters are so important. My guess would be someone who has your email address shares that email with other organizations or even sells the list, which is not legal but done all the time. I am a member of a professional organization and every time the member directory is published I receive a ton of spam for awhile. Apparently someone takes all the email addresses from the directory and uses them for sending out spam. I also know of people who not thinking include many email addresses in the open when sending to groups of people--someone seeing that email come in may then add your name to his/her lists, and on it goes...Here's one article about it: http://www.pcassistonline.co.uk/Help...solutions.html

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