New email scam going around? How'd they get my email?!?

How did Stele Komonah or whatever her deaf west african scamming self get my email address on my hiptop, no1 has that but suncom and me. Anyway don't give this email a second thought. It says something about her dead dad having 15mil ina us bank and she says she will share 10% with u. TOTAL BS BEWARE

New email scam going around? How'd they get my email?!?
Why did you open a e-mail that you didn't know the sender? You are just asking for trouble.
Reply:Today's spammers generate their own lists by computer, creating very long lists of sequential addresses (such as aaaa@, aaab@, aaac@, aaad@, etc), sometimes several million addresses long. They know that in those millions of addresses, some of them have to be real addresses. They are hoping you will open their mails, which will alert them that you do in fact have an active address. They then compile their own lists of active addresses that they can FLOOD with more spam emails. These 'active' lists are then sold to other spammers who also will flood your inbox with junk mail.





The lesson here is to be smart about handling mails that come from people we don't know and trust. NEVER open spam mails. And if you do happen to open one, NEVER reply to it and NEVER attempt to unsubscribe from their mailing lists.