If the spammers have harvested your email address from a website, they could have a chance to spam you, tats the "why". I can list some list which the spammer use:
-info@
- mail@
- sales@
- contact@
- contacts@
Dont get fool by send e-mail to them or get spam from them. A good suggestion is hide the personal information include your e-mail address. Dont give them chance to trace your Ip address. They can do anything to break the code even to coordinate your computer activities. They can stole anything from your computer. At the same time dont give your paypal e-mail to others, they can hack your paypal or make online shopping using your paypal e-mail. Beware of the hackers and spammers.
The advantages of hackers or spammer is find out the weakness of user. They are use it to make an attack and try to stole our perspiration (money or data) inside our computer. Thus we have to make a strong gate prevent from them stole it. A good suggestion is you get good antivirus and try to hide all your e-mail address and dont simple pass it others.