Office 2013 In Depth

Coping with Junk Email

Junk email is certainly a scourge. It fills up your Inbox with a lot of spam that you just don’t want; taking the time to delete this stuff is a pain. And junk email can be more than just a nuisance—it can also potentially serve as part of a phishing scam. In a phishing scam, you receive what appears to be a legitimate email message from a business that you frequent on the web (Amazon, eBay, or any other website where you buy stuff or do financial transactions). These businesses typically keep your personal information, including credit card numbers, on file. The phishing email asks you to update personal information or provides a link that takes you to a fake website where you are asked to supply your password or other ...