Phishing is a type of deceptive email or message designed to get you to take action and divulge your valuable personal data, such as credit card numbers, account IDs, or passwords, other account data and passwords, or other personal or financial information. You might see a phishing scam: In e-mail messages, even if they appear to be from… Read More »
Sammi wants to know what we recommend to stop the spam What can I do, besides install a spam filter, to help reduce the number of spam emails I get? I love your newsletters and look forward to them every week. Thanks! Sammi Our Answer Thanks Sammi! Here are six tips you can use to help reduce the… Read More »
Do you have a Gmail account? Gmail Accounts are free, give you lots of storage, and can be used like a regular email account in your Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Thunderbird or other email program. You can get a Gmail account free simply by signing up for one – just visit this page. For those who already have… Read More »
Did you know that you can send a short email from your computer to most any cellphone? You can. Cellphones use what’s called “SMS” to send messages from one cell phone to another. SMS is an acronym for Short Message Service. You can also send a text message as an email to any email address too. We both… Read More »
Here’s a simple tip that will help you quickly identify spam emails quickly. Many spammers use sophisticated software to extract your name from your email address. For example, if your email address is catherine.smith62@whateva.com , the software picks up your name as Catherine. So when you open your email, you may be shocked to see: Dear Catherine, We… Read More »
We’ve had hundreds of readers send pet peeves. Do you know what most of them are? They’re about email. Yes, about junky forwards, forwards with everyone else’s address showing up in the cc: field, etc. We started thinking that perhaps many people really don’t know what good email etiquette is, so here are a few (there are more)… Read More »