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Is sending a mailing to all my contacts, spam?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Questions Answered on January 22, 2009February 29, 2016

I have done this myself and sometimes feel like I am spamming my friends.  It isn’t that many names, but it still feels generic enough that i wonder. The definition […]

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Spam at Night

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Questions Answered on January 13, 2009February 29, 20161 Comment

I used to start my days going through all my spam in the morning. It is amazing how much spam is sent over night so as to be right there […]

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Why Send Email Spam with Just a Line of Text?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Questions Answered on January 7, 2009February 29, 20161 Comment

I have seen the question bounce around asking why a spammer would bother to send an email to someone that appears to have only one line of text. Sometimes even […]

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Lawyers don’t use Hotmail

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Questions Answered, Spam Messages on December 2, 2008February 29, 2016

If you get an email claiming to be a major professional of some kind (like a lawyer, doctor, judge or something) take a look at the email address. Any lawyer, […]

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How can I resolve a situation where someone is using my email to spam folks?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Questions Answered on November 21, 2008February 29, 2016

This is most likely a spammer who has randomly selected your email address as the return path and/or from for outbound spam. In this case you will likely be receiving […]

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Holiday Emails

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Questions Answered, Spam Messages on November 12, 2008February 29, 2016

So with the holiday season quickly approaching many retailers and fighting for those few dollars you have to spend. There will be a lot of email being sent, some of […]

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CC versus BCC

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Questions Answered on November 4, 2008February 29, 2016

Most people who send emails don’t really understand all the pieces and ways you can send an email. You can send an email “To:” someone or “CC:” someone or even […]

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Forwarding Warning or Alarming Emails

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Questions Answered on October 20, 2008February 29, 2016

Over the weekend I got forwarded an email from a friend about a “BIG VIRUS COMING” and tried to use another website to prove that the virus was real (http://www.snopes.com/ […]

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Watch for Boxes to Check or Uncheck

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Questions Answered, What Others Doing on October 6, 2008February 29, 2016

It seems that whenever you buy something on the Internet this leads to more email spam in your mailbox. However, a lot of legitimate companies are starting to recognize that […]

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Question: How Do Spammers Make Any Money?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Etiquette, Questions Answered, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on September 29, 2008February 29, 2016

I get asked this a lot too and did a an early post called How Many People Actually Buy Something from Spam? which covers this subject. Basically this is a […]

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Question: How Long Before I Get Spam?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Questions Answered, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on September 22, 2008February 29, 2016

Been seeing a lot of people talking about changing their email address to get away from the spam. They wonder how long before they are going to have to change […]

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Be Careful When Forwarding Email

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Questions Answered, Spam Messages, Spam Solutions on September 8, 2008February 29, 2016

When you forward email from one address to another this can sometime lead to difficulties with filtering. The worst example would be having a hotmail email address that you know […]

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How Many People Actually Buy Something from Spam?

By Shiloh Pettyjohn in Effects Across Industries, Email Studies, Questions Answered, Spam Messages on August 25, 2008February 29, 20162 Comments

When I tell people that I work for an email spam company, one of the first and most surprising questions I get asked (after how do I stop the spam) […]

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