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Did you blind cc them????? If not, I would guess ALL your friends would call it spam!

There is nothing more annoying than having your email blasted to a bunch of people you don’t know and likely don’t want to know!

However, if you sent an email with a blind copy, you probably did okay and no, it isn’t really spam. At least most of your friends will think so, though there are bound to be a few who feel a little spammed.

Spam is technically classified as an unwanted, unsolicited email from a non recognizable source, in other words people emailing you and a massive number of other people who don’t know the emailer and never asked to be emailed.

Make sense?

You should check with your friends and see if they mind getting occasional blasts from you and anyone who does mind, take them off your list.  Then, stay away from the “cc” line on a mass email, it is just the more polite thing to do.

I have seen several complaints of an email with the subject line: “Hey we have hijacked your baby but you must pay once to us $50000. The details we will send later.”

This is spam and totally fake (people who don’t have babies have gotten this email).

I am in shock that spammers would send an email with this headline. All to get an email opened.

I am so sorry if you got this email and it caused you even one second of worry or pain.

Pew Internet & American Life Project titled ‘Teenage Life Online’, six out of every ten online teens have received an email from a perfect stranger; with 63% admitting to responding to the stranger.

To the parents this may fit into the same category as spam.

More than half of parents today have filtering software on the computer their teens use at home. There are several systems that exist where the child/teenager has to get the parents to add someone as an approved email source or a site as an approved site before they can get the information.

While I agree with the fact that what children see on the Internet must be controlled (I have a 2.5 year old and am not looking forward to the day) it is very sad that we have to do so much work to protect ourselves from the stuff we don’t want.

Original article on IDT Blog about email spam