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writes:If your man checks out an online dating website, can they get your email address or addresses without joining this site as a member? My guys says he is just getting spam from this website. But he is getting 5-6 emails a day from this site. I wonder if he joined as a member as he is getting these spam emails from them daily and in two different email address accounts? Reply to this Question
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reader, person12345 +, writes (7 June 2010):
 It's possible that it's just spam, as those websites do love to advertise. However, 5-6 a day seems excessive. You should snoop around a bit more to find out the nature of these emails. It should be pretty easy to tell if they are spam "come join our website!" kind of things or if they are updates to frequent users.
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reader, anonymous, writes (7 June 2010): why is he checking out an online dating service- even if he has not joined why is he shopping around.
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reader, kittykhaos  +, writes (7 June 2010):
 I get a lot of spam from dating web sites stuff i "had joined" (the deleted my account) and stuff that just finds me through facebook/myspace and other such things that i have never joined. I wanted to write about this because i know a lot of guys/girls think there others are cheating on them with these websites but the truth is most of the time its just spam. some of them like zoosk (facebook) tell you in your email you have x amount of guys/girls interested in your profile even if you DON'T have one. Dont panic just try and have a rational conversation about it.
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reader, serenity80 +, writes (7 June 2010):
He most likely subscribed so something, at some point. This is because any legitimate dating website would not spam people.
If he doesn't want to receive the emails, he could easily unsubscribe. Alternatively he could mark them as spam, so they would go in to his spam folder.
What is the name of the dating website? The only one I can think of which might be dodgy is adultfriendfinder, but even then, he must have used it at some point.
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reader, PeanutButter +, writes (7 June 2010):
 You know, sometimes it is absolutely possible and plausible that a site send emails when the person is not a member. A while back I kept receiving emails from 2 different dating sites saying so and so was waiting for me or so and so wanted to contact me, which was just ridiculous as I'd never signed up for a dating site.
Mostly, when the email is just spam, it will not contain any personal detail, just a generic response trying to get the recipient to log in to their site and/or create an account. It is perfectly possible for this to happen without having gone near the site themselves.
Having said that, one or two spam emails a day is not nearly as suspect as 5 or 6!
Are the emails going to two of his email addresses or coming to his one email address from two email addresses? What was the nature of the content?
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