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Are You Blocking the Sender?

Posted by: Daryl in webmailblocking on

Daryl

Are you clicking on the block sender in your Webmail or other mail programs? If you are you may be causing you or your webmaster a very large headache.

All the spam and phishing scams we receive daily DO NOT use their own email address as the  'reply to'. In fact they may be using your email address as the reply to or sender of the email. What this means is if you hit the block sender button you just blacklisted your own email address from receiving emails from your customers and friends.

So how are they putting your email address in as the sender? They are simply using any mail programs that accepts 'Tags'. A tag is just a method of pulling a persons information up and inserting it into the email. Just like you may have used with an auto-responder.


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