Stupid ebay/amazon question

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wednesday, Jun 28th 2006 at 10:18 -0400, quoth Heather Brodeur:

=>Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>> I thought I knew a little bit about 'puters, but this one stups me.
=>> 
=>> I don't go to ebay on a regular basis. I go rarely and I purchase even more
=>> rarely. When I go, I log in for various reasons. But what I don't understand
=>> is that after I have visited, I get ebay spam saying that my account was
=>> corrupted or that bmy paypal account may be in jeopardy, you know, the usual
=>> ebay spam.
=>> 
=>> Can anyone explain to me why I get gouts of ebay spam just from visiting
=>> without actually purchasing? Even if I were to purchase, that shouldn't
=>> explain anything either. Is there some sort of troll inside ebay that sends
=>> my address to the spammers whenever I visit? I know this happens to other
=>> people too.
=>> 
=>I have never made a purchase on ebay and never had a paypal account, yet have
=>been sent what sounds to be the same spam.  I put it into the same category as
=>the other phishing mail that I get about problems with my accounts at banks
=>I've never been a customer of, etc.  As near as I can tell it's just spam
=>being spam (ok, phishing spam), hoping to convince someone that it's real so
=>that they can steal account info.  My advice (and someone please correct me if
=>I'm wrong) is to just delete it and forget about it, or better yet, use it to
=>train your spam filter.

I just want to try to keep my question on track. Yes, it gets deleted in 
the appropriate fashion. The question is why does it appear after visiting 
ebay? I do not get the sheer number of these messages when I don't go to 
visit ebay.

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