iPad users get more spam because of missing feature

The best SPAM scam has been to do the following:
1. Spammers put together randomly generated email addresses. For example johnsmith@gmail.com may be a legitimate email because the chances someone has that email address will be high.

Spammers are able to put together mass email names and domain combination's that will yield real email addresses.

Examples is they will try john@yourdomain.com, john@yahoo.com, joe@yourdomain.com, etc. They can generate millions of combination's of email addresses.

To figure out if the randomly generated email address is legitimate the spammer puts a image link with a unique URL in a mass email and sends it out.

2. When the user opens the email they will also open the image. At that point he SPAM marketer knows that they have reached a legitimate email because they have unique tracking on that specific URL which maps to the email address.

Most all email services are now blocking these images until the user clicks a button to download the images. (Yahoo, Gmail, hotmail, live.com, etc.)

Unfortunately, the iPad does not have a good way to deal with this. We have gone through the settings and one can only either completely turn off images in email or turn it on. There is no way to only download images for each email.

This problem has been pointed out in several message boards.

We suggest all iPad users to create a feedback on Apple's website so they change this. Enough feedback will force them to make some changes. I have already sent them several emails and have been ignored.

As I have used my iPad, I have noticed more and more SPAM starting to come in as spammers are harvesting my email address by sending me fake emails.