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Is SocialMedian passing my email address onto spammers?

What is going on here?

I use Google Apps for my email with my own domain, which means that I can use a custom email address for every site I register with - so that I can tell very quickly who has passed my email address on. For example, my email address on socialmedian is socialmedian@mydomain.com. I received a piece of spam today: the 'to' part of the message was blocked in the normal view (the 'to' field in Gmail displaying nothing), but this is what I got when I viewed the original message:

Delivered-To: socialmedian@[mydomain].com
Received: by 10.140.252.20 with SMTP id z20cs304686rvh;
Mon, 9 Mar 2009 04:51:45 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.141.97.5 with SMTP id z5mr3021257rvl.214.1236599505295;
Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:51:45 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <survey@walmart.com>
Received: from mail.giftforlife.com ([12.198.6.209])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id f21si10537349rvb.2.2009.03.09.04.51.44;
Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:51:45 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 12.198.6.209 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of survey@walmart.com) client-ip=12.198.6.209;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 12.198.6.209 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of survey@walmart.com) smtp.mail=survey@walmart.com
Received: from User [206.171.119.131] by mail.giftforlife.com with ESMTP
(SMTPD-9.10) id A5170478; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:01:27 -0700
Reply-To: <noreply@thank.you>
From: "Wal*Mart"<survey@walmart.com>
Subject: Congratulations.You are one of our lucky winners!
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 04:51:39 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="Windows-1251"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000
Message-Id: <200903090501437>

You have been selected to access the WalMart Spring Survey and win a $150.00 in your account just for your time.
Your opinion counts, help us make WalMart the best shopping place.
Please click here and complete the form
to claim your reward. Thank you.

This is an automated message. Please don't reply. Message
Id:0018212hhh2-spring.

I have NEVER given this email address out to anyone else, and I always specifically tell websites not to share my email address with any 3rd party agencies. Can someone from socialmedian please explain this?
 
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