[Cicero]

I have an AOL address that I've never used, and a Hotmail address that I've never used, and they both fill up with SPAM. And both are using the heaviest filters short of rejecting all mail entirely.

[goldstategop]

Hmmm.... why someone would send a ton of ads to an address that never gets used, I can't figure out.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Are your usernames words that are found in the dictionary? I suspect spammers have software to automatically send to thousands of common usernames at the large e-mail providers (kind of like brute-force password-cracking programs which use dictionaries).

I never get spam in my other webmail accounts, but my usernames wouldn't show up in a dictionary.