Sending emails with tons of addresses of others attached: really BAD Idea

When emails are sent with a ton of addresses VISIBLY attached, rather than located in the BCC (blind carbon copy) which only states, "undisclosed recipients" this is what happens to so many email addresses:

HOW YOUR IDENTITY IS SOLD
Hackers might steal your information, but very few of them actually steal your identity. Instead, they make money selling your personal information to actual identity thieves who then use it to steal and wreck your credit and perhaps your entire financial life.

This package of your identity information is called a "fullz." It includes information like name, date of birth, Social Security number, home address and anything else that hackers can find out about you.

Identity thieves will typically buy ten to a hundred fullz at a time for a set price, usually paid in untraceable bitcoins. Usually 10 fullz goes for $5 to $20 depending on how complete they are and where the information came from.

Once an ID thief has the fullz, they'll sort through them and start testing to see which ones are going to give them the best return on their investment. That's what you'll start seeing unusual activity in your accounts, your credit report and other places.

What can you do to protect yourself? always use the BCC feature on your email sends.. it's there.. you just have to actually scope it out..but it's THERE.

I was able to cabbage a ton of emails I needed to send a newsletter to ALL the recipients of the original send. Now I send to ME first and copy and paste everyone else in BCC which shows everyone that receives the email of the fact that everyone else I sent it to is 'undisclosed'

Protect yourself, protect your senders.. THINK of others and yourself.. yeah?

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