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dswang 
I think when you clicked on the spam, it instantly figured out that the address that it sent the spam to is legitimate, and is now spoofing your Hotmail address as the source address for its e-mail. There's not much you can do about that, given the way our e-mail system is designed.
This is how google makes money in their "free" gmail, except you only see a single line of advertisement at the top of the page linking you to everything you've ever queried in their search engine or received in your gmail through ebay/paypal or esty messages. Companies and universities pay a lot of dough to protect their people and computational systems from interfering ads and links.
