Where do spammers get my email address?

Where do spammers get my email address?

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Spammers get your e-mail addresses from a lot of different sources. There are a lot of lists that can be purchased, but there are a lot of lists that could be free. There's a lot of places that your e-mail shows up that you don't think of, such as newsgroups, chatrooms, reviewing books on Amazon, things like that. So they have sophisticated software that peruses these sites and just gathers and collects these e-mail addresses, and that's how they collect them.