Email being received on my renamed admin account

Hi,

Running a fully patched SBS2003 Standard box here with Exchange.

Today I received several spam emails addressed to my renamed administrator
account.
The name on my admin account is not one that would be easily guessed and is
not in any dictionary!

My question is, how could someone have gotten my admin account name?

I NEVER use that account to send email.

The only port I have open to the server from the public is SMTP port 25.
I do use the exchange server for some email but only from one regular user
account.

Is it possible that someone somehow was able to extract the admin account
name?

I'm baffled by this!

I just can't figure this one out.
Reviewing my exchange logs, I can see where the same spammer did send to a
lot of common names like root, admin, webmaster, but sure as heck, my goofy
admin account is also listed in the spammers attempts!

Anyone have a clue?

This is the first spam I've ever received on my SBS box which I've had
running since they started selling SBS!

Thanks a bunch


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