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Floating_Red
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How Do They Know My E-Mail Address?

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‎08-13-2009 03:30 PM

Have you received email messages in the last several weeks with several random words in the subject line, and a random sentence in the message body? If your answer is yes, then you are one of the victims of the ongoing directory harvesting attack (DHA) by spammers. 

 

 

How Do They Know My E-Mail Address?: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/how-do-they-know-my-email-address.

 

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Re: How Do They Know My E-Mail Address?

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‎08-13-2009 08:43 PM

Interesting. Well found
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