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How has my email address leaked out?

I've been spammed with pornographic emails from hundreds of lesbians all over the world. How did this happen to me when I'm not even a lesbian myself?

Posted - October 14, 2018

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  • 1502
    Spammers get people‘s E-mail addresses a few ways. 

    1. They illegally buy lists of real e-mail addresses.

    2. They use harvester programs that scan the internet. 

    3. They use hacking programs.

    4. When you click unsubscribe links you unknowingly let spammers know your address is real so more spammer will spam you. 

    https://www.lifewire.com/how-do-spammers-get-my-email-address-2483607
      October 14, 2018 2:11 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    they probably hacked into your ennail, ive had people hack into nnine too
      October 14, 2018 2:35 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    I can't see why that would have anything to do with it.  You are likely simply attractive to some people who consider themselves lesbians and once you get into that network you attract all kinds of ads and literature and requests. . 
      October 14, 2018 2:56 PM MDT
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  • 5
    Consider themselves lesbians? What do you mean? Either they are lesbians or they are not. I don't know how I could have "got into that network".
      October 16, 2018 12:54 PM MDT
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  • 34171
    My grandpa somehow got on a porn email list. He started replying with the title FBI agent and suddenly found himself ignored. 
      October 14, 2018 3:04 PM MDT
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  • 44583
    Somebody in Canada must have found out I used Viagra once. My e-mail was hacked and I got locked out. That was two years ago. There must be a billion Viagra ads in it.
      October 14, 2018 5:41 PM MDT
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  • 5
    A billion? Is there room in anybody's email account for a billion spam emails? I only had 319 of them.
      October 16, 2018 12:55 PM MDT
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  • 44583
    I do tend to exaggerate here.
      October 16, 2018 1:23 PM MDT
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