And i really resent the idea of clients being at fault for this.
nobody seems to remember a short while ago when Epsilon had an "incident" in which a lot of their clients' e-mail addresses got "lost" or "hacked" (read: Epsilon employee got rich quickly). I for one know that I do not give my email address to these scumbags for sure, so how do they get it? From firms that are supposed to be very secure and safe in terms of safekeeping my info (which they got from third parties, like banks and other institutions that we HAVE to deal with). So, I would appreciate some objectivity when assigning blame. I am pretty sure almost nobody on this forum gave away his email address just like that, and we are not PC noobs, and yet everybody gets phishing emails.
Does anyone here still believe in that little disclaimer that says "your e-mail address is never shared with third party companies" or something of that nature? How can one verify that? Utter BS, if you ask me.