A couple of weeks ago I created a short term email address for a poublic posting. Withint 24 hours I was told by PayPal account and eBay accounts had been compromised and that I had one one million Euro from a draw three weeks earlier. Giddy with the winnings, I logged on and posted my Pleco's PayPal and eBay account information because I thought it might someday want an account based on those details.
I blocked about 10k IP addresses last month that were running email harvesters / site scrapers - most of them (90%) were from China & Africa. They LOVE directories and classified sites that include contact email addresses in the postings. They're pretty good at harvesting but really bad about falling into spider traps
well i encountered this type of URL... http://paypal.com.cs132.info/etcetcetc.. at first glance looks like the email is really came from paypal.com... but its from cs132.info.