How The Hackers And The Spammers Can Get Your Email Address

Spam emails are problem to all of us. It's annoying and some spam emails even will send you malicious software. Another email threat is the hackers can hack into your email and they will demand you to pay some amount of money before they can release it to you. Maybe you're wondering how the heck the hackers or the spammers can get your email address. Below are some of the reasons.

1. You've posted your email address somewhere on the Internet
2. The hackers installed keyloggers inside your system
3. You've used your email username and password in other website (even the non-commercial websites)
4. Your password is not strong enough.
5. You've subscribed to spam websites
6. The hackers sent you a phishing email and you log-in through the link provided.
7. You posted your email as myemail@mydomain.com format

What you should do to prevent this from happening?

1. Don't post your email address in public forum or any websites
2. Scan your system using Ad-Aware 2007 and Spybot Search and Destroy
3. Don't use your email username and password in other websites
4. Use a strong password
5. Install McAffe Site Advisor to know which websites are spam websites
6. Never log-in using any link from any email
7. Post your email in other format such as myemail[at]mydomain.com . Spambots will have a problem catching your email address this way.
8. Use KeyScrambler and RoboForm to prevent keyloggers stealing your information

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