Spam alert after Ticketek email blunde

1points Posted 153 days, 13 hours ago by Bronwen

Ticketek has exposed tens of thousands of customer email addresses, which will now be rich pickings for spammers.

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Source: http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/email-blunder-spam-…

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How will spammers receive this unless they get that email.

But this is a lesson to anyone else, please use BCC for any multiple email you ever send.

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Well by “spammer” I’m assuming that could be any business or service owner who now uses those addresses to honk their services.

Sending an email as a cc instead of bcc is an easy mistake to make, but you would expect more from a service like Ticketek. Come on!

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