Barry,
I'm sorry to hear about your spam problem.
Any email address at aol.com or yahoo.com or hotmail.com will get spam. Spamers just send out emails to every combination of letters and numbers at those domains and the ones that do not bounce are saved for more spam.
There are also bots (automated computer programs) that go to web sites and look through all the text till they find an @ sign and copy the email address to a list.
I was talking about a specific auction # and a specific eBay user name that was used in a spoof of phony second chance offer that was not sent to my eBay email address but was sent to an email address that could of only been guessed, or copied from my message that was posted on the strikepoint chat board. It is not the first time for me, and I would bet that other users of the chat board that post their auctions and are also bidders on other auctions, have gotten spoof emails. I had to dig this spoof email out of my spam folder. Someone that did not have the filters that I have in place and was a little naive about spoof emails might be tricked. It just makes sense that the sender harvested the information from someplace and did not just guess what my ebay email was.