These are the most frequent ways to harvest your EMAIL:
1. Scammers regularly scan USENET to get the email addresses. Some machines will search only the article body where signature starts and mainly it will target where the @ symbol presents.
2. Scammers can take your mail address from mail list. They may request mailing lists server to send the mailing list to promote or to advertise his business then they will send spam messages repeatedly to get the attention from the user.
3. They can also harvest from the web pages. They may have some coding or software which is specialized to follow or to find the mail addresses from the web page.
Generally they will target the words “Mail to”, “@” in the web page to fetch your mail address.
4. Some scammers can harvest the mail address by using the paper forms or from the guestbook. Because some organizations may get the details of the client and the customers via forms.
So if the scammer found the paper forms they can easily get a plenty of email addresses.
5. They can also get from the chat rooms and from any social network which is used to be a mediator between various people.
6. They can also get the mail address through yellow pages and by guessing too. After guessing immediately they will be sending text messages to those mail addresses.
7. They can also get by hacking into sites.
Various Spam Laws are there to penalize these types of scammers but then too the no. of scammers are getting increased.