{"id":28,"date":"2026-09-28T12:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/why-do-we-receive-spam-emails\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:12:51","slug":"why-do-we-receive-spam-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/en\/why-do-we-receive-spam-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Receive Spam Emails and How Do Spammers Find Addresses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spam is not limited to unwanted advertising. Fraud, malicious links and phishing attempts can also represent a significant portion of unsolicited email traffic.<\/p>\n<h2>How are email addresses discovered?<\/h2>\n<p>Addresses may be collected from public websites, historical data breaches, automated scanning or purchased mailing lists.<\/p>\n<h2>Address guessing<\/h2>\n<p>Once a business domain is known, common addresses such as info@, sales@ or firstname.lastname@ can be generated automatically.<\/p>\n<h2>Data breaches<\/h2>\n<p>If a service you previously used suffers a data breach, your email address may later appear on multiple spam lists.<\/p>\n<h2>How can businesses reduce spam?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid unnecessarily publishing email addresses<\/li>\n<li>Do not interact with suspicious messages<\/li>\n<li>Use reliable spam filtering<\/li>\n<li>Regularly review domain and mailbox security<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the opposite problem, read <a href=\"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/en\/why-business-emails-go-to-spam\/\">Why Business Emails Go to Spam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how spammers discover email addresses, how mailing lists are built and what businesses can do to reduce unwanted email traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[161,121],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email-security","tag-email-management","tag-spam-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}