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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 107474" data-source="post: 1083435"><p>RAT infection is the most scary reason, but there are many more reasons your email could be on the street. In terms of increasing probability: a data leak at some company who has your email or you entered your email to download something or use free WIFI, or you responded to a discount or prize winning action, or a friend has installed an app in his/her phone allowing access permission to all your friend's contacts, etc ...</p><p></p><p>I once downloaded a free app (from the Google store) which function was to check whether something is completely horizontal. When I read the permissions it asked access to my contacts and pictures (why ???) and I immediately removed it (with netGuard temporarely enabled on my phone it could not have gone outbound).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 107474, post: 1083435"] RAT infection is the most scary reason, but there are many more reasons your email could be on the street. In terms of increasing probability: a data leak at some company who has your email or you entered your email to download something or use free WIFI, or you responded to a discount or prize winning action, or a friend has installed an app in his/her phone allowing access permission to all your friend's contacts, etc ... I once downloaded a free app (from the Google store) which function was to check whether something is completely horizontal. When I read the permissions it asked access to my contacts and pictures (why ???) and I immediately removed it (with netGuard temporarely enabled on my phone it could not have gone outbound). [/QUOTE]
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