There's a zillion free emails services out there where you can get an email and use it for all that kind of stuff. There is gmail.com, outlook.com, gmx.com, yahoo.com and literally hundreds of others when you can create a "throwaway" account where all the junk will go. If you are an Apple user they now have "private emails" which forwards email to your main account and you can disable any of those at any time so the mail will never arrive. Best part about that is you easily see what started the barrage of spam. As you discovered, it just takes 1 "contest" to spam you for the rest of your life. The purpose of those are specifically to gather mailing lists. You were VERY lucky that Bealls was able to remove it before it spread like a cancer.
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Originally Posted by coffeebean
I NEVER had "junk" email in my email account for as long as I have had an email address. I consider myself extremely lucky all those years.
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