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A community member was having trouble unsubcribing from Monster.com emails and reached out to the Savvy Confessions group for help. Here's the advice of one anonymous reader. To comply with CanSpam all commercial email sent is supposed to have a snail mail address and at the very best a phone number you can reach them at. If they are not honoring your unsubscribe after 10 business days then you Read more

My work phone number must have had an illustrious history before being assigned to me, because I've gotten several calls from debt collectors and tons of texts from spam marketers since the day I got it. Recently, I realized that the frequency of "how to become a secret shopper" and "ways to get a car loan" texts meant that it was time to find a way to block spam texts. Most of you have also Read more

The time following a major email breach is a smart time to remind yourself how to stay safe. But email isn't the only way that spammers and other users of ill repute can gain access to you and your digital life. Now spammers are trying a new approach to gain access: Facebook Events. Find out more after the jump. Read more

I've mentioned before that I've left a few old email addresses open after switching to a new mail program, and most of you admitted to doing the same. Well, here's one reason you (and I) might want to reconsider that stance. An old email address I left open and checked once a week or so was hacked, and for three days sent spammy messages to all of the contacts in my address book. Since I hadn't Read more

Facebook introduced its brand new "Modern Messaging System" earlier this week, and now security experts are saying it could be a target for spammers. Though according to Facebook, new measures are put into place to protect users, including an aggressive, third-party spam filter that will "supplement our spam detection and protection for messages sent from email addresses off of Facebook." Find Read more

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A few months ago an old email account of mine was hacked and started sending spam to everyone in my contact list. I've already posted a guide on how I handled it, but when the same thing recently happened to a co-worker, she was wondering how to appropriately apologize to friends and former colleagues that she hadn't talked to in years. Though you may be embarrassed, sending an email to let these Read more

Although my spam folder isn't totally out of control, it does fill up faster than I'd like it to. It seems that no matter how hard you try at keeping your email private — only giving it out on a need-to-know, or sign-up basis — it can end up in the wrong (read: unsolicited) hands. This little trick is modified from a tip I gave you a while back: you can add the plus sign at the end of your Read more