> On Jan 23, 2020, at 3:38 PM, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> > wrote: > > Ah... I always forget that people use mobiles nowadays for sending mail, > where you have separate contacts list at system level... By the way, isn't > mobile usage the root cause of most issues with sending messages to the > wrong address? > On a mobile client you often don't see the e-mail address of the recipient > at all... you only see the name (well similarly is for Gmail's web > interface) - I always wondered why is this, because I see this as primarily > stupid - hiding from the user to whom he/she is actually sending mail to...
Those mail clients also help scammers spoofing inbound mail, because they display the contact image and friendly name associated with the spoofed email address (which is how one company was scammed out of over $4million USD), as we write here in our caution to *not* have your email client display contact images or so-called 'friendly' names: https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/warning-having-email-display-senders-contact-image-and-info-helps-scammers-get-in-through-the-cracks/ Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law, Dean of Cyberlaw, Lincoln Law School of San Jose CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Legislative Consultant, GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO) Compliance Consultant Former Counsel: Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) Location: Boulder, Colorado _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
