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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. Bill Gates Says He Texts Daughter Phoebe to 'Say That I’m ...

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    One very memorable conversation featured in the new show is between Gates, 68, and Phoebe, the youngest of the three children he shares with ex-wife Melinda French Gates. In fact, Bill wrote that ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Email spam - Wikipedia

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    An email box folder filled with spam messages.. Email spam, also referred to as junk email, spam mail, or simply spam, is unsolicited messages sent in bulk by email ().The name comes from a Monty Python sketch in which the name of the canned pork product Spam is ubiquitous, unavoidable, and repetitive. [1]

  7. Cost-based anti-spam systems - Wikipedia

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    In 2004 Bill Gates announced that Microsoft was working on a solution requiring so-called “unknown senders”, i.e. senders not on the Accepted List of the recipient to post “the electronic equivalent of a” stamp whose value would be lost to the sender only if the recipient disapproves of the email. [1] Gates said that Microsoft favors ...

  8. 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.

  9. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...