Twitter used for Email Harvesting!!!!

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Your favourite social networking site Twitter can now be used for
Email Harvesting making it a threat to your online security and
privacy . Well even I was shocked to learn this at the first place
when I learnt how simple it was !!!

Social Networking site Twitter has this great feature of searching
twitter for the latest twitter updates at http://search.twitter.com/
Just go to this twitter search page , enter your search keyword and
there you have the latest tweets on twitter regarding the keyword
you have searched .

Spammers use the same technique for Email Harvesting  .In your
twitter search box type in @gmail.com OR @yahoo.com OR
the keyword mail me at and you can get the list of Email address
in your twitter search page .  People tweeting usually have this bad
habit of leaving their email address in their tweets while tweeting and
this eventually becomes a threat to their online privacy .Email Harvetsers
can write a simple program that runs every X seconds fetching them
new email address . So the next time you leave your Email address
online in Twitter or any of the Web directories ,get ready to be the
target of the spammers .

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Google Groups targetted for Email Harvesting!!!

Email Harvesting??
Well to many who dont have much idea what email harvesting is ,
let me put it down in few words. E-mail harvesting is the process
of obtaining lists of email address using various methods for use in
bulk email or other purposes usually grouped as spam. 


Why is Email Harvesting done for ??


Email Harvesting is a great tool that can be used to market your 
product .You get a list of email address using Email Bots that 
crawl the web to get the email address from different websites
all over the web .

What are the tools available for Email Harvesting ?? 

• Email Grabber 
• GSA Email Spider
• Email Extractor

Google Groups a Target of Email Harvesting??

 I recently found a great increase in spam in my inbox & 

liitle research on Google showed me Google groups was

one of the major targets of Email Harvesting Bots  .The major

reason for it being targetted was some of the google groups 

used to make their posters email address publicly visible ,

this would make it easy for the spammers extract the email

address.Still the question remained was how were the spam

mail being sent ending up in my Gmail Inbox rather than the

Gmail Spam section?? The spammers joined this group using 

their spam email address & hence they could easily bypass the

Gmail's Spam Filter which resulted in spam reaching your inbox.

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