[thelist] Capturing Anonymous Emails

[Chris Johnston]

On 4/21/05, Rob Smith <rob.smith at thermon.com> wrote:
> Ok.
> 
> One of my colleagues claims on his soul that he visited a website one day
> and then started receiving email messages from that company's website.
> Here's the catch... he didn't enter his email address anywhere on that
> website.
> 
> How in the heck is that possible?
> 

It isn't. So either you friend did enter his email address somewhere
on that site or an associated website or he has a very nasty little
piece of adware/spyware on his computer that captured his email
address and told it to the website. I suspect it is the former.

-- 
chris johnston

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