Are you unintentionally helping spammers?
As spam becomes a bigger problem for us all, there are simple steps everyone can do to reduce the number of addresses that land in the spammers hands.
We’ve all been there. Something amusing or interesting comes into our email box and our first instinct is naturally to share this tidbit with everyone in our address book.
Unfortunately, if you share this information with everyone in your address book by using the CC option, you’re not only sharing your email but also the email addresses of everyone involved. You could be sharing those email addresses with more than the recipients listed, but eventually all those addresses could, and probably will, land in the hands of spammers.
That’s why, when you send a broadcast email, you should always use the BCC instead of the CC option. By sending the email BCC (which stands for BLIND Carbon Copy) you’ll shield the other addresses from becoming common knowledge.
Spam is a part of life, but by sharing news and jokes by using the BCC instead of the CC, you’ll greatly reduce the risk of exposing someone’s protected address from the evil spammers.
