Nice send a copy to your email. Cc and bcc in email. Types of email recipients

Good time! Today we will talk about backup SMS, by sending all messages from your smartphone to email. This may be required both simply for the purpose of saving correspondence, and for further processing of messages, for example, searching in messages necessary information(contacts, names, prices, etc.) third party applications, which in turn work with E-Mail. Let's look at an option for such copying using a smartphone running Android.

Create a mailbox

To send and save all messages by E-Mail, you first need to register a mailbox; mail from yandex.ru is perfect for this. You can also use your existing mailbox, but I recommend registering a new one. Firstly, over time it will accumulate big number SMS messages, which can interfere when working with regular letters, and secondly, if you connect your mailbox to a third-party service for analytics, do not indicate the login and password from the main E-Mail in it.

Install the SMS Backup + application on your Android smartphone

To send all SMS messages to your mailbox, you will need to install and configure a special SMS app Backup +, which can be downloaded from play.goole.com or apk-dl.com (an alternative for smartphones that do not use Google Play) or .

The application has been tested on Android: 3.xx, 4.xx, 5.xx, 6.xx; Support for version 2.xx is declared.

Setting up SMS Backup +

1. Launch the application;
2. After launching the application, in the menu that opens, select the item: Advanced settings;
   
3. Next, go to Backup settings;
   
4. Check the boxes for Backup SMS and Email subject prefix, uncheck the boxes for Backup MMS, Backup Call log (we don’t need MMS and call history, although you can backup them too);
   
5. Return to the previous menu and go to the IMAP Server settings section;
   
6. Select the Authentication menu item,
   
   set the parameter value to Plain text;
   
   
7. Select the Server address menu item, enter the value: imap.yandex.ru:993
   
   
8. Select the Security menu item and enter the value: SSL
   
   
9. Select the Login (You IMAP account) menu item, specify your login, then select the Password (You IMAP account password) menu item, specify the password for yandex.ru mail;
10. In the main menu, check the box for Auto backup;
    
11. Next, go to Auto backup settings, select the Regular schedule menu item and set the time interval with the frequency of which SMS will be sent to the account we specified mailbox(for example every 2 hours).
    

The SMS Backup + application allows you not only to do backups to E-Mail, but also to recover messages from it. The corresponding recovery settings can be found in the Advanced settings -> Restore settings section.

After sending messages by E-Mail, they will all be placed in a folder called: SMS.

Analyzing SMS sent to Email

After receiving the list of SMS messages to your email address, you can use a special software analyze the data they contain. For example, you can track SMS from a bank with messages about cash receipts and debits, on the basis of which you can keep financial records in automatic mode. I implemented a similar solution for the “site joint purchases“When all SMS messages from the Bank received by the JV Organizers are collected in one place, analyzed and based on them, the system displays data in the control panel about which user who placed the order made the payment.

You have probably already noticed thatupon receiving letters from some authorsin the “to” section there is a list of several dozen emails of different people. Moreover, neither you nor these people gave their consent for these emails to be “exposed.” Naturally, some of the recipients will unsubscribe from this mailing list (we are all tired of the flow of spam to our emails). But one thing is certain - all recipients will treat the author of the newsletter as an unprofessional person. And they are unlikely to agree to accept his offer.

Let's consider this opportunity using the example of the most popular email address for business mailings: gmail.com

Typically, you use the Compose window to send an email. By clicking on it, you see a new “New message” window, into which you insert everything that is necessary to create and send the letter itself.

We usually insert the emails of our recipients into the “Recipients” window.

Copy means "exact copy". This field is used when you simply want to send an email to someone who is not the primary recipient. This way, you can keep the person in the loop while letting them know that they don't have to respond to the email. But all recipients of this letter see each other’s addresses (and even names).

Thus, using this field is one of the best ways to send a letter a large number people and maintain confidentiality. This means you won’t ruin your relationship with them. Using this feature, you can insert up to 30 emails. This means that with one click of a button you can send this letter to 30 recipients at once, without showing their emails.

And, if necessary, you can insert a picture into the body of the letter ( 4 ) or attach a file ( 5 ).

It is this mail that provides the maximum number of editing opportunities.

Similarly, you can send a letter to several recipients at the same time via yandex.ru mail.

Click on “Write” and then in the “To” window ( 1 ) insert the email of the first recipient, and then select the “Copy” function ( 2 ) or "Bcc" ( 3 ). Depending on whether you want all recipients of your letter to see all emails or preserve their right to confidentiality of addresses, select one of the functions. To add each next email to the list, you need to click on the button with the image of a man with a plus sign in front of it ( 4 ). Then you can select your regular recipients from the drop-down list or enter their emails manually.

Pictures can be downloaded from Yandex Disk and files can be attached as usual.

Click on the “Write” button, a window appears in which when you click in the “To” window ( 1 ), a drop-down list appears with a list of your regular recipients ( 2 ). You can choose from this list what you need. Or just insert the desired email destination manually.

Sending messages to yourself may seem like a stupid and completely unnecessary feature to many. But sometimes it can come in handy.

Let's say you were at a friend's place, used the Internet from his computer and found interesting program or an article. And what should you do if you don’t have a flash drive at hand, but you need to copy a link or installer file? This is where this function comes in handy.

And if you have become a habit of checking your email regularly, then by sending a letter to yourself, you will, as it were, make a note so as not to forget about something important or an upcoming event.

Considering that now every second person has a VKontakte page, I’ll write about this social network and about sending messages using Yandex, Google and Mail.

In contact with

To do this, go to your VKontakte page and select the “My Messages” section on the left in the “Menu”.

On the right side there will be a button “Write...”, click on it.

In this case, the letter will be read immediately. If you want it to be marked as unread, go to the page of any friend, find yourself among his friends and click opposite your profile "To write a message".

Now just enter your text and click Send.

Return to your page and you will see 1 new unread message there.

Via Yandex.Mail

Go to your mailbox and copy the email address in the upper right corner.

Next, click the “Write” button and paste the copied address into the “To” field. Type the desired message, you can, if necessary, attach files, and click "Send".

If you want it to come to you certain time Click on the clock icon next to the “Submit” button. Set the desired date and time.

Using Gmail mail

We go to the mail through our Google account and click on the “Write” button.

A field for entering a message will appear on the left. Click on your profile at the top right and copy your email address.

Now you will have another new unread email in your inbox.

According to various sources, from 50 to 95% of all emails in the world - spam from cyber fraudsters. The goals of sending such letters are simple: to infect the recipient’s computer with a virus, to steal user passwords, to force a person to transfer money “to charity”, to enter personal data bank card or send scans of documents.

Often spam is annoying at first glance: crooked layout, automatically translated text, forms for entering a password right in the subject line. But there are malicious letters that look decent, subtly play on a person’s emotions and do not raise doubts about their veracity.

The article will talk about 4 types of fraudulent letters that Russians most often fall for.

1. Letters from “government organizations”

Fraudsters can pretend to be the tax office, the Pension Fund, Rospotrebnadzor, the sanitary and epidemiological station and other government organizations. For credibility, watermarks, scans of seals and state symbols are inserted into the letter. Most often, the task of criminals is to scare a person and convince him to open a file with a virus attached.

Usually this is an encryptor or a Windows blocker that disables the computer and requires you to send a paid SMS to resume operation. A malicious file can be disguised as a court order or a summons to appear before the head of the organization.

Fear and curiosity turn off the user's consciousness. Accounting forums describe cases where employees of organizations brought files with viruses to their home computers because they could not open them in the office due to the antivirus.

Sometimes scammers ask you to send documents in response to a letter in order to collect information about the company, which will be useful for other deception schemes. Last year, one group of scammers was able to deceive many people using the "request to fax papers" distraction trick.

When an accountant or manager read this, he immediately cursed the tax office: “There are mammoths sitting there, oh my!” and switched my thoughts from the letter itself to the solution technical problems with shipping.

2. Letters from “banks”

Windows blockers and ransomware can hide in fake letters not only from government organizations, but also from banks. Messages “A loan has been taken out in your name, please read the lawsuit” can really be scary and make you want to open the file.

A person can also be persuaded to enter a fake Personal Area, offering to see accrued bonuses or receive a prize that he won in the Sberbank Lottery.

Less often, scammers send invoices for payment of service fees and additional interest on the loan, for 50-200 rubles, which are easier to pay than to understand.

3. Letters from “colleagues”/“partners”

Some people get tens business letters with documents during the working day. With such a load, you can easily fall for the “Re:” tag in the subject of the letter and forget that you have not yet corresponded with this person.

Especially if the poisoner field indicates “Alexander Ivanov”, “Ekaterina Smirnova” or any simple Russian name, which absolutely do not linger in the memory of a person who constantly works with people.

If the goal of scammers is not to collect SMS payments for unlocking Windows, but to cause harm to a specific company, then letters with viruses and phishing links can be sent on behalf of real employees. The list of employees can be collected on social networks or viewed on the company website.

If a person sees a letter in the mailbox from a person from a neighboring department, then he does not take a closer look at it, he may even ignore antivirus warnings and open the file no matter what.

4. Letters from “Google/Yandex/Mail”

Google sometimes sends emails to owners Gmail mailboxes that someone tried to log into your account or that you ran out of space Google Drive. Fraudsters successfully copy them and force users to enter passwords on fake sites.

Users of Yandex.Mail, Mail.ru and other mail services also receive fake letters from the “service administration”. The standard legends are: “your address has been added to the blacklist”, “your password has expired”, “all emails from your address will be added to the spam folder”, “look at the list of undelivered emails”. As in the previous three points, the main weapons of criminals are fear and curiosity of users.

How to protect yourself?

Install an antivirus on all your devices so that it automatically blocks malicious files. If for some reason you do not want to use it, then check all even slightly suspicious email attachments for virustotal.com

Never enter passwords manually. Use password managers on all devices. They will never offer you password options to enter on fake sites. If for some reason you do not want to use them, then manually type Page URL where you are going to enter your password. This applies to all operating systems.

Wherever possible, enable password confirmation via SMS or two-factor identification. And of course, it is worth remembering that you cannot send scans of documents, passport data or transfer money to strangers.

Perhaps many of the readers, when looking at the screenshots of the letters, thought: “Am I a fool to open files from such letters? You can see from a kilometer away that this is a setup. I won't bother with a password manager and two-factor authentication. I'll just be careful."

Yes, most fraudulent emails can be detected by eye. But this does not apply to cases when the attack is aimed specifically at you.

The most dangerous spam is personal

If a jealous wife wants to read her husband’s mail, Google will offer her dozens of sites that offer the service “Hacking mail and social network profiles without prepayment.”

The scheme of their work is simple: they send a person high-quality phishing letters that are carefully composed, neatly laid out and take into account the person’s personal characteristics. Such scammers sincerely try to hook a specific victim. They find out from the customer her social circle, tastes, and weaknesses. It may take an hour or more to develop an attack on a specific person, but the effort pays off.

If a victim is caught, they send the customer a screenshot of the mailbox and ask them to pay (the average price is about $100) for their services. After receiving the money, they send you the password for the mailbox or an archive with all the letters.

It often happens that when a person receives a letter with a link to the file “Video compromising evidence on Tanya Kotova” (hidden keylogger) from his brother, he is filled with curiosity. If the letter is provided with text containing details that are known to a limited circle of people, then the person immediately denies the possibility that his brother could have been hacked or that someone else is pretending to be him. The victim relaxes and turns off the antivirus to hell to open the file.

Not only jealous wives, but also unscrupulous competitors can turn to such services. In such cases, the price tag is higher and the methods are more subtle.

You should not rely on your attentiveness and common sense. Let an emotionless antivirus and password manager protect you, just in case.

P.S. Why do spammers write such “stupid” letters?

Carefully crafted scam emails are relatively rare. If you go to the spam folder, you can have a lot of fun. What kind of characters do scammers come up with to extort money: the director of the FBI, the heroine of the series “Game of Thrones”, a clairvoyant who was sent to you by higher powers and wants to tell you the secret of your future for $15 dollars, a killer who was ordered to pay you off, but he sincerely offers to pay off .

An abundance of exclamation marks, buttons in the body of the letter, a strange sender address, a nameless greeting, automatic translation, gross errors in the text, obvious overkill of creativity - letters in the spam folder simply “scream” about their dark origin.

Why do scammers who send their messages to millions of recipients not want to spend a couple of hours composing a neat letter and spare 20 bucks for a translator to increase the response of the audience?

In a Microsoft study Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria? the question “Why do scammers continue to send letters on behalf of billionaires from Nigeria when the general public has known about “Nigerian letters” for 20 years” is deeply analyzed. According to statistics, more than 99.99% of recipients ignore such spam.

And permissions.

You have probably already noticed that when you receive letters from some authors, in the “to” section there is a list of several dozen emails from different people. Moreover, neither you nor these people gave their consent for these emails to be “exposed.” Naturally, some of the recipients will unsubscribe from this mailing list (we are all tired of the flow of spam to our emails). But one thing is certain - all recipients will treat the author of the newsletter as an unprofessional person. And they are unlikely to agree to accept his offer.

How can you do it so as not to send a letter to each addressee separately and at the same time “not to shine before everyone else”?

Almost any email service allows you to do this.

Let's consider this opportunity using the example of the most popular email address for business mailings: gmail.com

Typically, you use the Compose window to send an email. By clicking on it, you see a new “New message” window, into which you insert everything that is necessary to create and send the letter itself.
We usually insert the emails of our recipients into the “Recipients” window.

Copy means "exact copy". This field is used when you simply want to send an email to someone who is not the primary recipient.

BCC means "an exact hidden copy." It works the same as Cc, but this field hides all recipient addresses.

Thus, using this field is one of the best ways to send an email to a large number of people and maintain confidentiality. This means you won’t ruin your relationship with them. Using this feature, you can insert up to 30 emails. This means that with one click of a button you can send this letter to 30 recipients at once, without showing their emails.

And then in the “Subject” window you need to write the subject of the letter ( 1 ). It should be brief, but at the same time accurately inform the recipient of the essence of the message.

In the next window, paste the text of the letter itself ( 2 ). Here you can edit it, format it, change the font, font size, appearance, color, apply numbered or bulleted lists, highlight quotes and so on ( 3 ).
And, if necessary, you can insert a picture into the body of the letter ( 4 ) or attach a file ( 5 ).

It is this mail that provides the maximum number of editing opportunities.

Similarly, you can send a letter to several recipients at the same time via yandex.ru mail.

Only there are fewer options for editing the text of the letter on this mail. Therefore, I will only show the procedure required to send letters.

Click on “Write” and then in the “To” window ( 1 ) insert the email of the first recipient, and then select the “Copy” function ( 2 ) or "Bcc" ( 3 ). Depending on whether you want all recipients of your letter to see all emails or preserve their right to confidentiality of addresses, select one of the functions. To add each next email to the list, you need to click on the button with the image of a man with a plus sign in front of it ( 4 ). Then you can select your regular recipients from the drop-down list or enter their emails manually.
And then, as usual: write the subject of the letter in the “Subject” window and insert the text of the letter itself.
Pictures can be downloaded from Yandex Disk and files can be attached as usual.

Almost the same thing is offered to you by the mail.ru service.
Click on the “Write” button, a window appears in which when you click in the “To” window ( 1 ), a drop-down list appears with a list of your regular recipients ( 2 ). You can choose from this list what you need. Or simply insert the desired recipient's email manually.

If you need to send this letter to a whole group of recipients at once, then choose one of two functions: “Copy” or “Bcc.”

To do this, click on the button at the very beginning of the window for recipient emails ( 1 ) and in the drop-down list ( 2 ) select what you want ( 3 or 4 ).

This mail allows you to attach files to the letter ( 1 ) and edit the text of the letter itself ( 2 ). Approximately the same volume as mail on yandex.ru.

That's probably all I wanted to tell you about today.

I hope that these little tricks will help you not only save your time, but also not violate the confidentiality of those people who entrusted you with their email addresses. Always think about the safety of those people who trusted you. Be professional!

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