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  2. History of email spam - Wikipedia

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    It plays on the word "canning" (putting an end to) spam, as in the usual term for unsolicited email of this type; as well as a pun in reference to the canned SPAM food product. The bill was sponsored in Congress by Senators Conrad Burns and Ron Wyden. In January 2004 Bill Gates of Microsoft announced that "spam will soon be a thing of the past."

  3. How to protect yourself against blackmail email scams - AOL

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    More people than ever are reporting online scams. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than 880,000 complaints in 2023, which is a 10% increase over 2022.. One popular scam uses ...

  4. Identify legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications

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    • Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.

  5. 8 phishing email scams to watch out for this holiday season

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    The scam email pretending to be from Target wants you to believe that you are a lucky winner. It uses the words "GIVEAWAY ENTRY WINNER" in large and bold capital letters. It also puts "Final ...

  6. Scammers send out billions of phony emails every day. Here's ...

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    I frequently note in columns that many scams originate overseas. Mr. Smith says that almost 45% of spam emails are sent from Russia and Mainland China; about 11% originate in the United States.

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  8. Email fraud - Wikipedia

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    Email fraud (or email scam) is intentional deception for either personal gain or to damage another individual using email as the vehicle. Almost as soon as email became widely used, it began to be used as a means to de fraud people, just as telephony and paper mail were used by previous generations.

  9. Bill Gates's house - Wikipedia

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    Bill Gates designed and owns a mansion that is on Lake Washington in Medina, Washington.The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m 2) mansion [1] incorporates technology in its design. [specify] [2] In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US$1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million.