Spam gets sent to anyone, and most of the spam that does get sent is to announce pornographic sites or get rich schemes. Because spam does not discriminate your children could receive UCE enticing them to visit an X-rated site. There are easy to write programs to filter through volumes of Internet traffic for e-mail addresses. Spammers compile huge mailing lists by scanning chat rooms and newsgroups looking for e-mail addresses. When a spammer wants to send out an UCE, he will forge the origin, or the sender's name, domain name and IP address.
Good spammers are extremely difficult to track down.
Very good spammers are impossible to track down. But, I know of one ISP who did track down a spammer and got her cellular telephone number. So when people wrote to this ISP to complain, they responded by stating they had track down the spammer and gave out her cellular telephone. When you get spammed do NOT reply to the sender because what you are doing is confirming to the spammer that the e-mail address they have for you is valid. A confirmed valid e-mail address is more valuable to them, and you invite them to spam you again and again.