how do e-mail spammers promising lottery winnings from nigeria get your ip address?

Question

how do these people get my e-mail address and then think i'm stupid enough to give my personal info ,for the hope of getting great riches.

Answer 1

I have excellent contacts in "Interpol", and these scam artist out of Nigeria use, every avenue that you could dream up to obtain your email & IP address.

The usual line is that their father was a high ranking Govt., official and left them a hugh some of money in an offshore bank. And they will give you say 25% comm., if you help them to tfr., the money out of their country into your bank account.

When they get your banking data, they wipe your account out. And ofcourse you get nothing and they have moved to another proxy to hide behind.

Example if you used a dating site, a large percentage of the pictures are fake, and the scam artist are not necessary all out of Nigeria. Many use, proxies, or are out of France, Canada, London, England and South Africa.

I reply back to these scam artist and let them believe that I am interested in their scam. And use my professional ability to out smart them out of the information I need to obtain all the additional data I need to turn them over to "Interpol", for arrest in the country where they reside. Plus I use the "full header with these scam artist as a starter to trace where the email originated.

My "interpol" contacts, have made so many arrest that I no longer receive one email from these scam artist. (These scam artist all know not to send me any more emails).

Minddoctor, France

Answer 2

They don't get your IP address. Lots of spammers just get programs that send emails to all possible email addresses, by going through all combinations of letters and numbers in email addresses.

They may also get it from somewhere on the internet.

Answer 3

lol.. I won 450,000.00 twice last month but I haven't "claimed" it. It is nice to know that we have such a great chance of winning another country's lottery.