Are spammers always in your computer?

Been getting a little freaked out lately over spam.

I’ve had gmail for a long time now and you know how everyone has a spam folder. Well, once and a while I just look there to delete everything and over the years I’ve noticed the headlines of spam emails eerily related to private files on my computer.

For example – I write a lot of stories. I send stories to people. However, I recently wrote a story with a military man in it who always addresses his diary entries with his full name and title – “Lance Corporal Scotty McGee”

Many of my spam emails are suddenly using the name “Lance Corporal” So-and-so as the sender.

I found this particularly disturbing. I have never sent anyone this particular story – it’s always been on my private hard drive. I don’t have it on clouds either.

Couple years ago I learned to keep changing up my passwords, especially not to have the same one for multiple accounts. Still – this doesn’t seem to erase weird things like that from happening. Last year I got a confirmation email from Pinterest (or some kind of photo/image social media site like that) and I’m like “What the fuck? I never signed up for this.” So I let them know that I never did.

I always suspect that you can never truly be private on the Internet, even if you use the most private browser. Someone will always seep in. The best way to be private on the Internet is, well, to not use the Internet. . . .