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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here's the 411: your spam folder is basically a catchall spot in your email account that automatically filters out junk mail, or ...

The location for storing unwanted email as determined by a spam filter. Also called a "junk folder" or "junk mailbox," spam folders are created by mail servers as well as by the user's email program.

I used to do it a lot more, but I get too much now on my gmail account so I just check the first 100 or so in the spam folder when I look and let the rest go.<BR><BR>I have a couple of other accounts ...

Every so often I check my spam folder to see if emails from friends or professional contacts somehow got intercepted and rejected by the spam filter. This requires a fast descent into a netherworld of ...