11-12-2019, 11:48 AM
(11-12-2019, 06:54 AM)ppppenguin Wrote: Or you correspond with somebody whose PC etc has been hacked and their address book harvested.
Worse still, a 'friend' decides to send some stupid joke to everybody in his/her address book and uses cc instead of bcc. So you now have the email addresses of lots of people you don't know - and they now have yours!
The more strangers that have your address, the greater the likelihood that one of them will be hacked.
Both I and my wife have fallen out with friends in the past who refuse (or are too stupid) to understand the importance of using blind copy.
An old friend of mine - a retired physicist, so you would expect a reasonable level of common sense - decided I might like to be part of his jokes list but didn't seem to be able to comprehend the need for using bcc.
Fortunately it was an email account I rarely used because it suddenly started being spammed at an amazing rate!
At first I just deleted them but, out of interest I started moving them into a junk file for a few weeks so it was easy to count them.
Then I forwarded one day's worth to my 'friend' - individually, of course, - with a note telling him that 'this is what happens if you don't bcc.'
I did the same thing the following day, then forwarded one more on the third with a note saying 'I have 207 more of these received over a three week period. How many more would you like to receive?'
The 'jokes' stopped - which was no great loss - but I heard nothing more from him. After a few weeks I deleted the email account.
