Tell Me What is in Your Spam Folder and I Will Tell You Who You Are
How spammers target you and flood your inbox with your wants and needs
Your spam emails might tell more about you than you are willing to share. They may even teach you something you did not know about yourself.
Maybe I logged in with my Facebook profile to browse for a pencil skirt. I wonder why they would, a couple of years later, assume my budget is tight and I am looking for a job.
A Princeton University research published on Wired.com warned against using Facebook to log into different websites:
“The researchers found that sometimes when users grant permission for a website to access their Facebook profile, third-party trackers embedded on the site are getting that data, too. That can include a user’s name, email address, age, birthday, and other information, depending on what info the original site requested to access.”
That would explain my being spammed by an online seller who I never purchased from. Moreover, it tells me how their guess about my current life can be so accurate.
I used to open certain unwanted emails out of sheer curiosity. As I learned about email marketing, I now know better. Simply opening an unwanted email message confirms to the…
