Blind Carbon Copy - An anti-spam precaution

Usually in your email account, you will find different options to send messages:

To: Principal recipients

Cc: Carbon copy to people can be interested or related with the principal message.

Bcc: Blind carbon copy to send the same message to multiple recipients, hiding their e-mail addresses from each other.

Usually BBC is used in mailing lists, But WHY?

For one side is courtesy, this is a sensible anti-spam precaution because it avoids making a long list of e-mail addresses available to all the recipients. To and CC field allow users to see all recipients address which can be inadequate when you are sending message on behalf of a business or organization, it may be especially important to keep lists of clients, members or associates confidential.

Spammers and email-borne viruses take advantage of people who don’t delete long email lists in the messages. It’s important to remove addresses of previous recipients when you forward an email.

To reduce the risk to be part of a spammer list, encourage people who forward messages to you to use BCC. Besides, you can use a specialized software Spamjadoo www.spamjadoo.com to avoid irrelevant messages and more privacy for you and your business.

Almost all emails servers have BBC option. But If you cannot BBC without write an address in TO, you can write your own address, it will help you to confirm that the message was sent and hide your recipients ID.

Internet is a free and open resource but we also should take some precautions like in the real life.