On Sep 12, 2004, at 2:51 am, "Larry le Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My wife keeps on getting spam which aren't actually addressed to her.
She has asked Hotmail but not received an answer how come e-mails that are addressed to similar (BUT not the same) actually end up in her inbox...
E.g. my address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I would get e-mails actually addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am clueless...
Some spammers use the bcc (blind carbon copy) field to address spam. For example, the 'To:' address might be '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' but then the 'Bcc:' address(es) might be '[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc'. To each recipient, it appears as though they received a single piece of email that was addressed to a similar address as their own; but actually it was spammed to multiple addresses.
-Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "You can't brew a premium lager with a Kool-aid mentality." --Harold Green in _The_Red_Green_Show_
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