Well, that ftc address is a legitimate one and they are trying to prosecute
the spammers.

As to how you get them, many newsletters, mostly the shady ones, rent or
sell the names and addresses to 3rd parties. There are also spambots or
spiders that that scout all webpages for the "@" and grab all the email ids
it can grab. Other spamers use the dictionary-like email-id gnerating
software, which generates addresses and send it out to popular domains like
hotmail, earthlink, etc.

These things are only going to get worse, so you need to use filters, or
get anti-spam software that will recognize and delete the spam for you.

Justin

At 05:20 PM 5/24/03 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi everyone.
>I have been getting two or three messages a day from someone in a far-off
>country, usually Nigeria or Angola, asking me for some type of transaction.
>I am just wondering if any one knows how the heck these things reach only
>designated people on the web.  I had a friend's father tell me to forward
>all spam I receive to the following email: [log in to unmask]  Having known this
>friend and his family for quite a while and really liking them, I trusted
>him and sent some junk mail I received to the address he gave me but nothing
>has happened.  Should I take this to mean that the messages have been or are
>being processed and therefore it was the right thing to do, or what?  In the
>one I just received, something I found rather interesting is that this
>person mentioned the war in Iraq.  Thanks for any possible explanation into
>this matter.
>Jacob
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