Email Addressed to Someone Else

Ever received an email message that appears to be addressed to someone else? Chances are very good that it wasn't by mistake. This is a form of spamming.

• Spammers often use the Bcc: (blind carbon copy) function of email when sending Spam. The "To:" field contains an address that is not the customer's email address: an_email_address_that_is_not_customer@whatever.net The "Bcc:" field contains two other email addresses: test_account@whatever.net and john_doe@whatever.com. 
  
  
• All three of those email addresses will receive the email, but it will appear as though the message was sent to just the person whose email address is in the "To:" field: an_email_address_that_is_not_customers@whatever.net. If the customer receive and email that was not addressed to him or her, then the email address was most likely in the "Bcc:" field.