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-They go to forums like this and scan all accounts looking for email links, then save them and sell the lists. That's why my email is ALWAYS private on a given forum.
-They send out garbage with "do not subscribe" links that uniquely identify you if you click it. That proves a hot address, if the email was presumed cold beforehand. Then it gets sold.
-They intercept massive mailing lists, such as when people send out those giant joke emails to a million people. That's why I tell all friends and family members that I never want joke emails, because rather than laugh, they piss me off. Those intercepted get sold in lists.
-Sometimes they just randomly generate email addresses and send out continuous streams of email. The bounces get dropped most likely, and the ones that click the "do not subscribe" link get added to lists and sold.
Either way, once discovered and confirmed live, they are sold to others.
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