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Email addresses can be harvested by spammers almost anywhere they are posted, and that includes chat rooms. Posting your email address on a website may open it up to being harvested by a "bot," an automated program designed to sit in chat rooms and collect information.
Entering your email address into a website can open you up to loads of spam. Mailing lists from websites can be sold and traded to spammers.
Opening the wrong email can leave your address vulnerable to spammers. This can cause anything from a non-closable window to appear to a hoax virus alert to a real virus being loaded onto your computer, which sends your persona data back to a spammer.
Spammers' bot programs are designed to crawl over chat messages and bulletin boards, harvesting email addresses for future use. Leave spaces or use alternate characters to confuse spam bots when posting your email.
Viruses can be loaded onto your computer in a number of ways, from opening junk mail to visiting an infected website. A virus can transmit information back to a spammer's computer or even turn your computer into a slave for sending out more spam emails.
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