I am presently studying in the university and every student here is given an email account. There was once I saw and decided to sign up for a free email from an ISP. During the signup, I was told I needed to give my email address to them to sign up for their free email. I duly complied with their request and gave them my university email.
It didn’t happen immediately, but before long, I started to receive spam in my university email. I know I have never provided my email to anyone else, execept to this ISP.
May I know is our email address sellable? Are there people, including ISPs, who are willing to sell their collection of emails to spammers? Is there a black market for this?
August 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
Maybe.
You learned your lesson. Get a YAHOO address for registrations and such, so you can keep your regular email FREE of SPAM.
Good luck
August 10th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Your information is worth more than money, Read the Terms before agreeing. It wil say if they will sell to other people.
August 12th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
You may find this link helpful:
It is a good idea to have a real fake email address. Usually when I register at new sites, I use this: to avoid the invaild syntax error. But it doesnt work for the sites that require you to open the message and hit reply. Thats what a real fake email address is for
August 14th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
there must be someone is making money on spamming. You dont do it for free.
August 14th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Yes you better believe it. There is big money in buying and selling emails and addresses. It may not be legal but the Spammers don’t care.
August 15th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
visit and search for
August 17th, 2009 at 2:28 am
If you knew the crap people get from mtv.com you’d be baffled. (Not only the number of violations in one day [if you post a single link you get a violation on there] but the ads for condoms, VMA voting things, gum, cell phone carriers, it’s ridiculous)
Some email providers and other profiled sites give your info away like a Rolling Stones’ guitar from 1964. They ask for top dollar on it and they get top dollar on it sadly.
In essence there almost is a market for it. At first I gave my hotmail address to only one person and I got at least 50 spamails from that one person, from both sites they were affiliated to and themselves.
August 17th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Yes, but there are spam filters also, I’m sure your school has one to use.