Save Your Contact List From Spammers
Written by Anurag Bhateja on May 9, 2009 – 7:06 pm -Forwarding mails is FUN! Right? Yes, it is and friends do forward mails to their friends. The first question I would like to ask is how you do forward your mail? The 90% of people will answer in same line “I click on forward button, enter the saved mail IDs from address book and press the send button! This is so simple! Just like eating cake 
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Now just have a look on the image.
What is happening here is whenever you forward a mail, the address will remain visible to everyone whom you are sending and also to those to whom the people will keep on forwarding.Imagine what will happen if those mail IDs go into the hands of spammers. Do not think that spammers will never get access to this list as someone will surly forward the mail to a person who spams regularly and you just can not deny this fact.
Now to save the address book from exposure to spammers there is a perfect tool from the very begining of mailing system known as BCC (Blank Carbon Copy). Any address filled in BCC field will not be dispalyed to any of the receiver. In this way you will save your address book from spammers.
E.g. of BCC text box in Yahoo mail.
E.g. of BCC text box in Gmail.
Tags: forwarded mail, gmail, hacker, save addres book, spammer, yahoo mail
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