Avoid These Words That Send Your Email to Spam
Photo: AFANASEV IVAN (Shutterstock) While you might know that your emails are all worthy of a thorough read and should never be relegated to your recipient’s spam folder, there’s a…
Unsubscribe From Unwanted Mailing Lists With This Chrome Extension
Across all my email addresses, which include school, personal, spam, and work inboxes in both Gmail and Outlook, I currently have 23,754 unread messages. This does not mean I am…
Beware of These Personalized ChatGPT Email Scams
ChatGPT is not unlike a smart child—intelligent, yes, but also easily manipulated. A kid might understand the difference between “good” and “bad,” but an ill-intended adult can often convince a…
How to Get Off a Scammer’s ‘Sucker List’
It’s probably not just a feeling you have: Some people really do get way more spam calls, emails, and texts than others. For every fake McAfee order email your friend…
No, You’re Not Getting a Free Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods
Photo: JLauer (Shutterstock) We’ve all taken those brief surveys where you get a $10 gift card for a movie theater or a BOGO coupon for Chipotle. But what about a…
Don’t Mistake This Microsoft Security Alert for Spam
Photo: Tada Images (Shutterstock) Recently I received two security alerts from Microsoft warning me someone had attempted to log into my account. The emails offered me links to review the…
Why You Should Never Respond to Spam, Even to Unsubscribe
Photo: Compassionate Eye Foundation (Getty Images) You might find yourself wondering from time to time: Why is it always you who constantly gets spammed with emails while your buddy Steve—who…
You Should Be Filtering Your iMessages
Photo: DenPhotos (Shutterstock) iOS 16 is filled with plenty of major features, but there are smaller changes as well—like the return of your battery percentage, and an option to enable…
How to Stop Your Important Emails From Going to Someone’s Spam Folder
Photo: Gil C (Shutterstock) My spam folder currently contains over 500 emails of incomprehensible phishing attempts, newsletters from companies I didn’t know I subscribed to, and a variety of unsolicited…
Please, Never Open a PDF from a Strange Text
Photo: Tero Vesalainen (Shutterstock) I get a lot of spam texts. A lot. They’re immediately recognizable: The source number doesn’t look familiar, and is attached to a message so obviously…