I recently put my old Hotmail account on my phone, which I traditionally only checked a few times a year. I went from 1-2 spam emails every few months to several a day, after going through all the old ones and marking them as spam. How is this possible? I haven’t given this email out in years, and none of my monitoring services have flagged this email recently. It seems spammers somehow know this email is active again.
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They don’t.
They’re sending out thousands of emails to different addresses from lists they have purchased. They are only interested in those that respond. It doesn’t matter to them if a message never gets delivered to a particular address.
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