"Have you checked your spam folder?" You've probably heard this question before. But perhaps you weren't quite sure what your spam folder even is, never mind how to check it. What is a spam folder?

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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 ...

Thought you could escape spam with smart email filters? Think again. A Georgia school district has learned the hard way that it doesn't pay to rely on those filters completely. A Cobb County School ...

Spam. It fills our in-boxes, wastes our time and spreads malware — and it’s only getting worse. According to Ferris Research, which studies messaging and content control, 40 trillion spam messages ...

Oh, spam. There is so much of it. Some estimates say that 90 percent of email sent around the world is spam. Sometimes it’s hard to sort the wheat from the chaff; or the ham from the spam. It’s been a ...