SPAM in Mandarin characters

It seems that for a long time, huge amounts of Chinese-language SPAM come in every day to my email accounts on hotmail, gmail, yahoo, full of SPAM I cannot read that is in Chinese.

Question: how do these SPAMMERS know I am living in a Chinese-speaking country?

Of course, I get English-written SPAM, too,but it’s a minority compared to all the Mandarin SPAM. Since I do not use com.tw in my email addresses, how do they find me?

EXAMPLEs:

Subject : 企業貸款+房貸+信貸

Subject: 成人DVD,VCD,各地電影,情趣用品,男女性藥,最新短片,色情貼圖

Have you ever posted your e-mail address(es) on a Chinese-language web site? Please take my advice - never post your e-mail address anywhere on the interntet - Spam bots will find it.

Thanks. What is a SPAm bot and how does it function?

I guess, yes, I have given my email address at some Chinese-language websites. Dummie me.

[quote=“Cola”]Thanks. What is a SPAm bot and how does it function?[/quote]It works the same as google, looking at any websites it can find. Whereas google copies the whole page for searching, these bots look for email addresses (anything with a @ ), stores them, then spams them.