Image by Getty Images via Daylife There's a sense out there that clicking on an unsubscribe link will just give your email address to more spammers. That may be true at some level. But I'm here to tell you that over the past two weeks I've been on a mission to unsubscribe to as much email as I can. ...

Spam is usually considered to be totally evil and worth no second look when you check your spam folder to make sure there’s no legitimate email that got there by mistake. But I personally have extracted many useful emails from that very folder so I check it every day and pay at least a second ...

Q: Dear Ken: Is there any feasible way that a National “do not spam” list could be created? – Bobby A: In a world where rules are created, they are only effective if the participants abide by the rules. In the case of the National Do Not Call list, the companies that are required ...

She Farted And Created The World is an animation about a dog who farts and creates a world. The whole thing is made entirely from recycled papers. Bank statements, bills, scraps found on the street, pointless spam mail etc....

With all of the recent variants on advance fee fraud (419 scams), particularly money order fraud, It's been a while since I got the classic "I'm the millionaire son of a tyrant who needs help figuring out how to FedEx a suitcase full of diamonds" version. But my wait is over:FROM MR. ZUBI ADAM (VERY...

Caught up in what you would thing would be an obvious scam, a lawyer admits,"I'm a capital 'D' Dumbass."I don't say that to be hard on the man, but to emphasize this: When you're offered huge amounts of money for doing virtually nothing, odds are you're being scammed. I don't want to review the enti...

If there’s one part of online marketing that I loathe it’s dealing with the jerks who write me inflammatory, offensive, and often insulting emails for doing something heinous, like sending them emails. I tweeted the other day about a C-level exec at a Fortune 500 company who sent us some...

Here’s what’s in my junk mail folder today: What is up with all that? Apparently I sent a payment to myself, I initiated another payment to myself, I am a user of myself who’s received exclusive offers for January, and I received a payment from myself. Wow! Furthermore, an internal discussion ...

I think that I have a lot of understanding and knowledge of industry terms, but this unsolicited (check out the footer of one time email) email threw in the term in the header about “Please push your “picture bar located directly under the Subject line.” Am I confused? Can anyone s...

You've got an email from your bank. Or at least, it says it's from your bank. But what if it's a fake? Chances are it is: up to 150m phishing emails are sent every day, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Sophos estimates that 58% of email users receive at least one each day and 22%...