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SPAM of the Week #8: a fake Social Security email that asks you to move it OUT of your spam folder. That's your sign. Then it asks you to click. Don't. Go to the agency's site yourself. Got one? [email protected]

Fell back an hour. Spent 58 minutes of it deleting "Win A Trip" and a store I shopped at once in 2014. The other 2 minutes were great. #FallBack #EmailPrivacy #OptMsg

First day back from vacation, and your inbox is a week of newsletters and promos you never asked for. With OptMsg, only people you approve can reach your inbox. Everyone else goes to Trash. optmsg.com/simple-by-desi… #EmailTips #OptMsg

Know someone who calls you every time an email looks off? Send them this free 10-step checklist to lock down their inbox. optmsg.com/blog/privacy-g…

Phishing was the No. 1 cybercrime reported to the FBI last year. People 60 and over reported $7.7 billion in losses. Here's what we're doing about it: optmsg.com/blog/press-rel…

Somewhere in this inbox is the one email you actually need. Good luck finding it under everything else. #EmailPrivacy #OptMsg

The email said your package was held. Somebody in your family gets the call about it anyway. Somebody always makes it. She wrote "Is this real??" before she even dialed. #EmailPrivacy #OptMsg

A brand-new assistant topped the app store. For a lot of people the first job they handed it was their email, because we stopped opening it ourselves. Now a summary tells you what mattered. Nothing tells you what it skipped. #EmailPrivacy #OptMsg

A shopper got sized up in a store this week and told the staff they'd just lost a huge sale. Your inbox runs that sort every day, in reverse: the junk shows up embossed, the one that mattered shows up plain, and nobody tells you what was in it. #EmailPrivacy #OptMsg

A laptop maker is offering up to $1,000 cash back this month to anyone who trades in a MacBook Pro. No one is offering that for your email address. They don't have to: every account, every receipt and every person you know points at it. #EmailPrivacy #OptMsg

This month, every missed pitch gets replayed from four angles. The email you missed doesn't. The school form, the refund deadline: buried under promos, and nothing tells you it was there. #email #OptMsg

A newsletter about retirement. Four paragraphs, 110 words, and it doesn't name the law. No act, no bill number, no date. Its own footer says the publication covers technology. Read the footer before the headline. Got one that almost got you? [email protected]

Gmail shipped a screen that lists every sender you are subscribed to, ranked by who emails you most. Useful, and an admission. What it does not fix: optmsg.com/blog/privacy-n…

One laptop at a contractor put 8.63M karaoke members' names, birthdays and phone numbers at risk. No passwords leaked, and that is not the point. optmsg.com/blog/breach-br…

Microsoft 365 Family cloud storage is dropping from 6TB to 2TB shared, with more sold as an add-on. Your mail and your photos come out of that same allowance - so when it fills, you won't delete the thousands you never asked for. You'll delete your own pictures. Faster.

A Discord bot built to keep strangers out spent 3 hours posting a stranger's invite. The Double Counter breach, and what to do now: optmsg.com/blog/breach-br…

A bottle of pills comes with a foil seal so you can tell nobody got to it first. The email asking you to confirm a payment comes with nothing at all. So you stop trusting any of it — including the one that was real. #EmailPrivacy #OptMsg

Your inbox knew it was National Badger Day. It knew about National Taco Day and National Coaches Day too. Which is odd, because the only reason you found out is that a shop sold you a kettle in 2021 and kept your address. #email #privacy #emailPrivacy #OptMsg

Her phone buzzed with an ASOS alert, so she opened it. It read ASOS HACKED. The attackers did not have to look credible — they borrowed a channel that already was. optmsg.com/blog/breach-br…

West Coast fans don't get Dancing With the Stars live. Their episode starts after the rest of the country already knows how it went. Your inbox does the same thing with email that matters more. The one with a date on it was at the bottom of the pile. #DWTS #email #emailPrivacy