TXBobcat
Fulltime
I would like to let you all know of a problem with email that many do not watch out for.
Yesterday I started getting email failures called MAILER-DAEMON. I had over 50 in my inbox the first time. I looked at the emails and they had a message like the ones that said " I have been stranded in (some place) and need some help getting home. Please send me$2000 and I will return your money plus interest. Or something like that. I deleted the 50+ emails. a few minutes later I had another 80+ in my inbox.
I contacted my domain provider and they helped me get the Spam emails stopped. They said it was possible that they got into my web email site and sent the Spam. I changed my password and the domain providers checked to make sure my email address was not blocked on the internet.
One of the things that would help stop people from using your email is Change your password often, and do not put email addresss in the CC: (Carbon Copy) of an email. Use the BCC: What happens it that you send an email to many of our friends and you put the email addresses in the CC: then the people that like what you sent they forward the email and all the email addresses are still in the email they send plus the ones that they send to their friends. This keeps snowballing and somewhere down the line someone that steals emal address will get one of these emails and harvests all the address and can use them to send spam whith them.
So if you send an email use the BCC: Blind Carbon Copy.....
If you receive an email from your friends that have the emails in the CC: Delete the email addresses before you forward the email to your friends and use the BCC: Then reply to the frend that sent you the email using the CC: and ask them to stop using CC: and use BCC:
I am going to send a reply to everyone that sends me an email in CC: to start using BCC: or stop including me in their group emails. If you receive an email from me please do not be offended. I am just letting you know that you are putting my email address and all others in harms way.
THank you
BC
Yesterday I started getting email failures called MAILER-DAEMON. I had over 50 in my inbox the first time. I looked at the emails and they had a message like the ones that said " I have been stranded in (some place) and need some help getting home. Please send me$2000 and I will return your money plus interest. Or something like that. I deleted the 50+ emails. a few minutes later I had another 80+ in my inbox.
I contacted my domain provider and they helped me get the Spam emails stopped. They said it was possible that they got into my web email site and sent the Spam. I changed my password and the domain providers checked to make sure my email address was not blocked on the internet.
One of the things that would help stop people from using your email is Change your password often, and do not put email addresss in the CC: (Carbon Copy) of an email. Use the BCC: What happens it that you send an email to many of our friends and you put the email addresses in the CC: then the people that like what you sent they forward the email and all the email addresses are still in the email they send plus the ones that they send to their friends. This keeps snowballing and somewhere down the line someone that steals emal address will get one of these emails and harvests all the address and can use them to send spam whith them.
So if you send an email use the BCC: Blind Carbon Copy.....
If you receive an email from your friends that have the emails in the CC: Delete the email addresses before you forward the email to your friends and use the BCC: Then reply to the frend that sent you the email using the CC: and ask them to stop using CC: and use BCC:
I am going to send a reply to everyone that sends me an email in CC: to start using BCC: or stop including me in their group emails. If you receive an email from me please do not be offended. I am just letting you know that you are putting my email address and all others in harms way.
THank you
BC