As much as I enjoy occasionally reading some of the "heartbreaking" stories of various people who have huge sums of money that they want to share with me, how on earth do they get hold of e-mail addresses? Rarely get spam to my BT address but I've just found 50 in my hotmail!
Hotmail is easy. Because it's probably the most popular email address there is, spammers do a dictionary spam ... i.e. they'll spam every possible combination of letters at hotmail.com and thus all our Hotmail is full of ****.