Have you ever received an email which says it is from you – but which you know you didn’t send? They probably look like spam, and will usually include an email address to reply to inside the message. These messages are a type of phishing attack and the attacker is spoofing your email address. What […]
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E-Mail is quick, convenient and economical. But like any form of business communication, e-mail follows a few common rules of courtesy: 1. SUBJECT LINE–Always use this field and make it as descriptive as possible. A descriptive subject says, “open me”. It also makes your message easy to find again. 2. CAPS–Refrain from typing in ALL
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If you phone a company you’ve dealt with (or considered dealing with) and the phone number is “out of service”, you might hunt for their new number. But time is money. You might contact the person you met at yesterday’s breakfast meeting instead. Whether the business moved or changed phone numbers, your call represents a
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Rogers’ web page for e-mail problems: http://help.yahoo.com/rogers/mail/ Rogers Tech Support (1-888-288-4663) What is Rogers/Yahoo Spamguard Protection? http://help.yahoo.com/rogers/mail/spam/#spamguard Rogers/Yahoo Spam Protection is a feature you have to turn on by logging onto Rogers web site. By default, the feature is turned off. Rogers tells us that all e-mail is delivered, but anything deemed to be ‘bulk’
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Phishing (pronounced “fishing”) refers to fraudulent communications designed to deceive consumers into divulging personal, financial, or account information.
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Phishing (pronounced “fishing”) refers to fraudulent communications designed to deceive consumers into divulging personal, financial, or account information. Phishing emails often appear to come from legitimate financial institutions or retailers. Such requests may ask for information including account numbers, passwords, user names or social security numbers. These fraudulent emails often create a false sense of
Many people use a combination of first and last name. Some suggestions for John Smith, President of Your Domain are: john@yourdomain.com john-smith@yourdomain.com john.smith@yourdomain.com jsmith@yourdomain.com smith@yourdomain.com president@yourdomain.com domain_president@yourdomain.com Spaces and apostrophes can’t be used. Substitute a period (.), dash (-), or underscore (_).
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Dictionary spam is a technique spammers use. In simple terms they create a list of email addresses by merging domain name databases (commonly available) with the ‘dictionary’ database which contains all the words in the dictionary, plus common names and words commonly used for email addresses e.g. info@ or service@. People who choose to use
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In programs used to filter spam, a false positive is a legitimate message mistakenly marked as spam. This can happen because the domain or network the person is sending from is used to send a lot of spam (such as hotmail), because their computer, or a computer they use is infected with a virus, or
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A whitelist is a list of e-mail addresses or domain names from which an e-mail blocking program will allow messages to be received. E-mail blocking programs, also called a spam filters, are intended to prevent most unsolicited e-mail messages (spam) from appearing in subscriber inboxes. But these programs are not perfect. Cleverly crafted spam gets
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