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Email
Do you receive lots of junk email messages from people you don't know? It's no
surprise if you do. As more people use email, marketers are increasingly using
email messages to pitch their products and services. Some consumers find
unsolicited commercial email - also known as "spam" - annoying and time
consuming; others have lost money to bogus offers that arrived in their email
in-box.
Typically, an email spammer buys a list of email addresses from a list broker,
who compiles it by "harvesting" addresses from the Internet. If your email
address appears in a newsgroup posting, on a website, in a chat room, or in an
online service's membership directory, it may find its way onto these lists. The
marketer then uses special software that can send hundreds of thousands — even
millions — of email messages to the addresses at the click of a mouse.
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