Every time a spammer gets busted, the net breathes a sigh of relief. Communications regulator the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued formal warnings to two local companies which have repeatedly ignored the provisions of the Spam Act, sending messages without consent and offering no unsubscribe facilities. More »
Our lives are filled with spam. It has many names and comes in many forms, from email to snail mail to text messages and more. With the help of technology, as well as some clever thinking, it’s not too difficult to filter out all the unwanted crap in your life. Here’s how to do it. More »
Dear Lifehacker,
My email account just sent my a handful of my friends and family members an email with a spammy link to something called “Viagrow”, but I can’t for the life of me figure out where the email came from, or how it happened. Is there a way to track the origin of a spam email so I can keep it from happening again?
Cheers,
Sick of Spam More »
If you’re sending Gmail messages from anywhere other than Gmail itself, they may look like phishing attempts. Up until today, whenever I sent messages using my Google Apps account with the From: address set to my vanilla Gmail address, my Gmail-using recipients got an alarming, bright red message at the top which said “This message may not have been sent by [who it appears to be from]. Learn more Report phishing.” Make sure this doesn’t happen to you. More »
It’s fun getting email and snail mail when you receive something you actually want, but that joy is easily overshadowed by the massive amount of mail you don’t really care to read. While spam filters do a great job of killing your supply of junk mail, your physical and digital inboxes are likely filled with newsletters and advertisements you could easily do without. Here’s how you can clear out all that crap. More »
Spam is massively annoying, and we’re all suitably grateful that modern email systems manage to shunt most of it out of sight (even on Thursdays). But despite its bucket-of-suck nature, spam can teach you how to make your own email more effective. More »
Advertising types call them “email marketing messages”, but we generally tend to lump newsletters and special offers in with random Viagra promos as “spam”. Whatever label you choose, it turns out that you get more of them on a Thursday than any other day. More »
Few things gladden my heart more than a company that sends spam getting taken to task. Regulator ACMA today revealed that it had formally warned Melbourne company Astute People Solutions over an email marketing campaign promoting interview skills software. More »
