Email Sucks at I got Spam?!

I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM email over-and-over. No matter how many times I marked the email as SPAM, Gmail continued to drop the email in my Inbox. I reviewed the email's original [...] Read More


Need to encode your e-mail? at I got Spam?!

Well, I'm sure a lot of you don't know squat about html or encoding, but would still like to be able to have e-mail contact with your readers. So, instead of surfing the web and googling(TM) it, you can simply use the Automatic Encoder Form and get your perfectly clean and usable HTML coded e-mail address ready to insert wherever. Like for example your Typad, Blogger or Wordpress template. The Automatic developers [...] Read More


Porn spam is no longer in at I got Spam?!

Do you even remember those spam emails urging you to visit the 'adult' website with 'special' content? It seems spammers no longer push porn, they are busy advertising drugs, stocks and real-estate. As SC Magazine's Fiona Raisbeck and Frank Washkuch Jr. report, only 3% of all spam is adult content: "The report revealed that only three percent of all spam collected last month could be classified as adult material. This included pornography, [...] Read More


Modern E-mail Scam On The Rise at The Search Engine Weblog

A different kind of scam is now swarming in e-mail boxes. These e-mails are focusing neither on recipient's good intentions nor greed but fear. The latest scam e-mail, threatens to kill recipients if they do not give thousands of dollars to the sender, who claims to be a hired assassin. About 115 complaints have been filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) since the scam emerged, [...] Read More


Email Addresses You Can Throw Out at The Social Networking Weblog

Do you only need an email address for a little while? Try a disposable email address. Ivy from the I Got Spam blog talks about how you can use these disposable email addresses to keep from getting more spam. Some sites don't like these disposable email addresses because you can use the email address to sign up for the site and then ditch the email address. Now the site has [...] Read More