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 
.”
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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By Jitu on May 10, 2009 | Reply
Hmmm.
I didn’t know that people are now aware of this. If they didn’t know already… they sure do now.
Another thing you could add is… editing the forward to remove the previous mailing lists. A lot of people use official ids to exchange forwards. And unwittingly add their signature to the forwards. Very often I have recieved forwards with office numbers and others details below the name of the person sending.
We mostly never really read any of those… but we can never be sure who the forward is going to. So to avoid any unforeseen trouble… I delete the complete details of the mailing chain leaving only the name of the person, who had forwarded it to me, on the mail.
It works!
Not only is the forward shorter… no confidential info is passed on unwittingly.
By Anurag Bhateja on May 10, 2009 | Reply
Anyway, thanks for the suggestion in deleted comment. Will take care of that
By Jitu on May 10, 2009 | Reply
Heyy!!
I didn’t mean to hijack your future article. Was just going with the flow.
Will try and be… less informative… next time onwards.
Have a great day!!
And… btw… Happy Mother’s day to your mom and all moms who read this post.
Jitu
By Dum on Oct 9, 2009 | Reply
I will be sure to use this next time….
so far I didn’t use this.
By Jenn on Oct 12, 2009 | Reply
My mom loves to forward emails. I remember when I was still new on email thing, at first I thought she was asking me to add those email address above. Until I knew that those emails are the one where she sent the emails and so on. But at least now, when she forward emails, she learned to delete the top portion(email addresses) first.
By geneve on Oct 13, 2009 | Reply
thanks for this tip!there are really so many spams that I received everyday
By akira07 on Oct 15, 2009 | Reply
Yes, writing all address on ‘To’ or ‘Cc’ field just too risky, there is many spammer out of there
Maybe a reason about “Why you’re often getting spam?” is because your habit on using ‘to’ and ‘cc’ when sending e-mail to multiple person. Now, anurag already give a tips, so simple, use BCC field, and that’s mean you already prevent to receive spam email.