Scam alert: do "out-of-office" e-mail autoreplies help burglars? A report issued by UK-based Infrastructure Forum ("TIF") says spam-savvy thieves are using info from 'out of office' email autoresponders and cross-referencing it with publicly available personal data to target empty homes.  [thanks, Boing Boing Blog]

Amazing. Personally I really hate 'out of office' autoresponders and try and discourage people from sending them whenever I can. I also find it quite surprising that you could correlate business names and emails with home addresses but I guess that given enough work, it may be possible. [from: JB Ecademy]


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