Spam messages usually contain unsolicited requests to purchase products and services. However, they may also contain malware, spyware and viruses that can harm your computer and put your business ...

Tickets to an upcoming sporting event. A receipt from the Nike store for running shoes I bought last weekend. A local newsletter I open every day. Those emails and 82 others were among the legitimate ...

Most of these are spam, but at least one definitely isn’t. Before I incur the wrath of non-Gmail users, let me just note that this tip also applies to Hotmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, and so on. But ...

Getting to the bottom of your spam folder is not as scary as it sounds. (Photo: Getty) "Have you checked your spam folder?" You've probably heard this question before. But perhaps you weren't quite ...

The Federal Trade Commission says scam calls always spike this time of year during open enrollment. If you are tired of ...

Spam today represents as much as 85% of all e-mail sent and received, according to the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union, up from approximately 35% just one year ago. Spam is a true global ...

It’s used most often to filter e-mail for spam. Unlike other filters that check words in an e-mail against a dictionary of terms that occur frequently in unwanted messages, CRM114 checks against a ...

Google is bring its machine learning techniques from Search and Google Now to Gmail. A type of machine learning has been implemented in Gmail for while already, through the use of the “report spam” ...

James McGrath Morris is publisher of the newsletter the Biographer's Craft and is the author of a forthcoming biography of Joseph Pulitzer. (Washington Post) Spam was once a simple annoyance. But its ...

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