More than a million people supported the cause of net neutrality in India and sent in their grievances to the TRAI via emails. Unfortunately, the TRAI made the entire list of email IDs public by listing the same on their website. These email IDs were and are vulnerable to spam mails as spammers and phishers will now bombard the email addresses with junk. A lot of people are reporting a rise in the number of spam and junk mails in their mailbox each day. Mails from simple SME and online shopping to hoax offers and deals. The list also has openly disclosed a lot of mobile phone numbers, which can also be used by marketing personnel and scamsters for cold calls and scams.
If you were one supporting the net neutrality issue and sent in your comments from your email ID, then you could be in for a lot of spam. The TRAI had invited people’s responses and comments on the net neutrality issue and got a huge response with over a million emails in its database. These emails were from the common man and internet users around the country, who supported the net neutrality move and sent in their comments and support for the cause. However, the TRAI seems to have put these users at a higher risk by exposing each and every email ID to spammers out there.
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Read the entire story: Thanks to TRAI, spammers just got your email ID
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The TRAI has made public all the email IDs who supported their move on Savetheinternet.in. A PDF file on the TRAI’s website has openly displayed every email ID that responded to the net neutrality cause. This list has been made public, exposing over a million email IDs for spammers to leech. So if your mailbox has been getting a higher number of spam emails recently, you could very well blame the TRAI. Later, the TRAI website was also taken down by a few hackers.
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The email list is still openly shared on the TRAI website for spammers to feed on. The TRAI has not yet pulled down the list of all the email addresses.
