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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
If you get junk/spam from someone you know (like your bank or clinic), then you are good to click the unsubscribe button. If it is standard unwanted spam, mark as junk without opening it if you can. Spam senders love when you click unsubscribe as it tells them that the address is good and you read your spam. This will put you in line for more spam. do not click it!
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
I agree with Randy, if you are getting hundreds of spam every day.
If you only get a few, there is a good built-in method, but it takes time and repetition to become effective. It is the email filter that Apple has provided for age. BUT you have to train it. It is mostly hidden behind the “curtain”. If it is working, you will find email in your Junk folder.
This only works on accounts you have set up in Apple’s Mail. So you can’t use web mail, or expect it to work on accounts not read in Mail.
It is not an overnight fix, and it does make the occasional false positive. In my case, it flags as junk, random email from groups.io, and a very rare other email. So, without opening any, I quickly scroll and scan thru the Junk folder. Then normally, I select all and send them to Trash and empty the trash.
How often do I have to do this? A couple of times a week. It takes about a minute. I get batches of 20-40 emails at a time, mostly to an e-ddress I used on resumes, listed on LinkedIn. Most have similar formats.
And the Filter in Apple Mail is free.
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Dec 14, 2024, at 06:49, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:
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On Dec 14, 2024, at 5:18 AM, Sew Walker via groups.io <sewnyes@...> wrote:
How do I block email. I get many unwanted and clicking unsubscribe does no good and sometimes it tells me the site is not available? The easiest and best way, IMHO, to deal with spam is to purchase and install SpamSieve, follow the directions for training it (easy enough to do), and then sit back and watch as it almost magically detects and directs all of your spam into a “Spam” folder for you to delete at your convenience.
SpamSieve ($30)
Review:
SpamSieve is the first thing that I install on every new Macintosh that I buy. Any other plan for dealing with spam is a waste of time and energy. Nothing else comes close to doing as good a job, while leaving the ultimate choice on whether to save or delete suspected spam up to you.
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
Depends upon the device you are using, but click on the arrow to the right of the sender’s name. It may be hidden. Scroll down to Block.?
But as I said earlier, don’t waste a lot of time blocking spam. Spammers change their email like they change their underwear, often.?
If you try to unsubscribe, and you get anything but the option to unsub, then all you did was confirm your e-ddy is good. It was spam, not unsolicited marketing. ?Expect more spam.?
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On Dec 14, 2024, at 05:18, Sew Walker via groups.io <sewnyes@...> wrote:
? How do I block email. I get many unwanted and clicking unsubscribe does no good and sometimes it tells me the site is not available?
Thank you?
Sue
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Re: Fw: Your iCloud storage is almost full.
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Have you looked at this?
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Paul
. Some imagination required.?
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First of all, when I look at iCloud it shows I have much more space than that. Second, I see no way of deleting saved objects from iCloud. I wish to back up ONLY calendars, contacts, notes, and reminders. NO photos, videos, or music. How can I see what's there and clean it up?
Thanks,
Barbara
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From: iCloud <noreply@...>
To: "bmende@..." <bmende@...>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2024 at 10:19:39 PM EST
Subject: Your iCloud storage is almost full.
| Hello Barbara Mende, |
| Your iCloud storage is almost full. You have 572.2 MB remaining of 5 GB total storage. |
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| Your iCloud storage is used for iCloud Photos, iCloud Mail and to keep the most important things on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch safe and available, even if you lose your device. iCloud Drive, and apps like Keynote, Pages, and Numbers also use iCloud storage to keep your files up-to-date everywhere. |
| To continue to use iCloud and to back up your photos, documents, contacts, mail, and more, you need to or reduce the amount of storage you are using. |
| The iCloud Team |
| Note: If you exceed your storage plan, new photos and videos will not upload to iCloud Photos and your devices will stop backing up to iCloud. iCloud Drive and iCloud-enabled apps will no longer update across your devices, and you will not be able to send or receive messages with your iCloud email address, blm36@.... |
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Fw: Your iCloud storage is almost full.
First of all, when I look at iCloud it shows I have much more space than that. Second, I see no way of deleting saved objects from iCloud. I wish to back up ONLY calendars, contacts, notes, and reminders. NO photos, videos, or music. How can I see what's there and clean it up?
Thanks, Barbara
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From: iCloud <noreply@...> To: "bmende@..." <bmende@...> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2024 at 10:19:39 PM EST Subject: Your iCloud storage is almost full.
| Hello Barbara Mende, |
| Your iCloud storage is almost full. You have 572.2 MB remaining of 5 GB total storage. |
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| Your iCloud storage is used for iCloud Photos, iCloud Mail and to keep the most important things on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch safe and available, even if you lose your device. iCloud Drive, and apps like Keynote, Pages, and Numbers also use iCloud storage to keep your files up-to-date everywhere. |
| To continue to use iCloud and to back up your photos, documents, contacts, mail, and more, you need to or reduce the amount of storage you are using. |
| The iCloud Team |
| Note: If you exceed your storage plan, new photos and videos will not upload to iCloud Photos and your devices will stop backing up to iCloud. iCloud Drive and iCloud-enabled apps will no longer update across your devices, and you will not be able to send or receive messages with your iCloud email address, blm36@.... |
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Re: clicking on website shows a page about the website but unable to get to site
On Dec 14, 2024, at 6:25?AM, Sew Walker via groups.io <sewnyes@...> wrote:
I hope this makes sense; When I click on a website in my email. I get a page document about the website or article but no images and I am unable to see the site.
Apologies, Sew, but I’m not certain what you’re describing. If you receive an email containing an embedded URL, Apple’s Mail app will often show a small preview from the linked page rather than the html code of the URL, with an arrow adjacent to the top right corner attached that permits you to see EITHER the URL or that preview.
Here’s an example:
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Clicking either the image or the URL should take you to the page. If you’re describing something that happens only occasionally, it’s likely the problem would be with the URL itself. On the other hand, if EVERY URL or preview image you check doesn’t work, then it’s likely at your end. One example of that I’ve discovered recently with the current macOS and Safari is that some websites will gobble up ENORMOUS and ever-increasing amounts of system memory (no other browser I’ve tried seems to do this), and if you have 2 or three web tabs open, each of them actually using 5-8 GB of RAM, you may just not be able to open any more pages (and your Mac will become sluggish unless you’re endowed with 32 GB of RAM
Descriptions of problems such as yours always benefit from including information of what Mac you have, what version of macOS you’re running, and what browser and/or email client you’re using.
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Jim Robertson
Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
On Dec 14, 2024, at 5:18 AM, Sew Walker via groups.io <sewnyes@...> wrote:
How do I block email. I get many unwanted and clicking unsubscribe does no good and sometimes it tells me the site is not available? The easiest and best way, IMHO, to deal with spam is to purchase and install SpamSieve, follow the directions for training it (easy enough to do), and then sit back and watch as it almost magically detects and directs all of your spam into a “Spam” folder for you to delete at your convenience. SpamSieve ($30) Review: SpamSieve is the first thing that I install on every new Macintosh that I buy. Any other plan for dealing with spam is a waste of time and energy. Nothing else comes close to doing as good a job, while leaving the ultimate choice on whether to save or delete suspected spam up to you. __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
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clicking on website shows a page about the website but unable to get to site
I hope this makes sense;
When I click on a website in my email. I get a page document about the website or article but no images and I am unable to see the site.
Any idea if there is setting that I accidently hit?
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Sue
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
How do I block email. I get many unwanted and clicking unsubscribe does no good and sometimes it tells me the site is not available?
Thank you?
Sue
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
They have already harvested your e-ddress. Now you need to check their site and if they have a “do not share” system, and sign up.?
I keep a throw away email for retailers or sites that might abuse my e-dress.?
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On Dec 13, 2024, at 14:38, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? On Dec 13, 2024, at 3:17?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
The only ones I unsubscribe are known good sources, like my county library system. They recently started a new monthly news letter. Or a retailer that I recently placed an online order, rare as that is.
Actually, those KNOWN senders that I no longer wish to receive mails from are the ones I’m writing about (they could be magazine publishers, online retailers, political parties, etc. I know they’re “legitimate,” not scammers or spammers, but I no longer need to communicate with them. I’m just wondering if the very fact of legitimizing the validity of their connection to me might be harvested somehow (for example, in lists of verified email addresses sold to less legitimate buyers), and thereby put me at increased risk of attacks.
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
Don’t bother blocking most spam email. Their e-ddresses change all the time with the same body.?
Block just the ones that repeat the same sending e-ddresses like bad retailers.?
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On Dec 13, 2024, at 13:35, Pat Taylor via groups.io <pat412@...> wrote:
? Thanks for this tip that I hadn’t thought about! On Dec 13, 2024, at 1:54?PM, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
? jimrobertson wrote: I’m wondering whether there’s risk involved in clicking “unsubscribe” when unneeded emails keep arriving from commercial or political entities where I’m quite certain that the incoming messages really ARE from whom they SAY they are, but are no longer relevant to my needs. Does clicking “unsubscribe” basically just create a confirmation that I’m a live target and therefore actually INCREASE my risk of phishing or scams? Should my strategy be just to route such messages to my junk folder instead?
I have been clicking “Block Sender” on a lot of unsolicited emails., then trashing them.
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
Yes, ?I unsubscribe if I know the senders. Actually, I used to unsubscribe quite a lot of junk but not all! ?Once in awhile there’d be an annoying unknown sender and sometimes I’d unsubscribe them.?
Then one day I sent an unsubscribe and voila - within a couple days I was getting 5 spams from the same source. ?Those started going directly to the junk or trash. ?I do scan the junk and trash folders daily or almost daily. ?
Becky?
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On Dec 13, 2024, at 4:37?PM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
On Dec 13, 2024, at 3:17?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
The only ones I unsubscribe are known good sources, like my county library system. They recently started a new monthly news letter. Or a retailer that I recently placed an online order, rare as that is.
Actually, those KNOWN senders that I no longer wish to receive mails from are the ones I’m writing about (they could be magazine publishers, online retailers, political parties, etc. I know they’re “legitimate,” not scammers or spammers, but I no longer need to communicate with them. I’m just wondering if the very fact of legitimizing the validity of their connection to me might be harvested somehow (for example, in lists of verified email addresses sold to less legitimate buyers), and thereby put me at increased risk of attacks.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
Ok, known sender. You can report spam calls and texts to fcc.gov. They have teeth, but seldom bite email. Text, they only listen. And for email, won’t even take complaints, you only get action if they committed fraud with email.?
The legislature for some reason excepted political and charity organizations from various “do not call” laws. Politician for self serving reasons, and leaving the door open for…? zoom, the name for political action groups just left me. Charities were included as a smoke screen and their donors.?
I become an annoyance to get off mailing lists, since it worked so well with postal for me.?
Legitimate businesses, will remove you if you just ask.?
If they are known and _not_ new, they they have already confirmed it as valid, but if you contact them, you maybe able to stop them from sharing the info in-house and out.?
Too bad you aren’t still in California. CA has new teeth for sharing.?
At the moment, your fastest way to stop them is to block them, until the change the outgoing e-ddress.?
? Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Dec 13, 2024, at 14:38, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? On Dec 13, 2024, at 3:17?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
The only ones I unsubscribe are known good sources, like my county library system. They recently started a new monthly news letter. Or a retailer that I recently placed an online order, rare as that is.
Actually, those KNOWN senders that I no longer wish to receive mails from are the ones I’m writing about (they could be magazine publishers, online retailers, political parties, etc. I know they’re “legitimate,” not scammers or spammers, but I no longer need to communicate with them. I’m just wondering if the very fact of legitimizing the validity of their connection to me might be harvested somehow (for example, in lists of verified email addresses sold to less legitimate buyers), and thereby put me at increased risk of attacks.
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Jim Robertson
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On Dec 13, 2024, at 3:17?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
The only ones I unsubscribe are known good sources, like my county library system. They recently started a new monthly news letter. Or a retailer that I recently placed an online order, rare as that is.
Actually, those KNOWN senders that I no longer wish to receive mails from are the ones I’m writing about (they could be magazine publishers, online retailers, political parties, etc. I know they’re “legitimate,” not scammers or spammers, but I no longer need to communicate with them. I’m just wondering if the very fact of legitimizing the validity of their connection to me might be harvested somehow (for example, in lists of verified email addresses sold to less legitimate buyers), and thereby put me at increased risk of attacks.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
I do similarly as Pat. Only in my case Apple’s filters catch most of the spam, but unfortunately, sometimes catch emails from the domain groups.io.?
So without opening the spam, I do a quick rolling scan of the Junk folder, then move the spam to the Trash and empty it.?
The only ones I unsubscribe are known good sources, like my county library system. They recently started a new monthly news letter. Or a retailer that I recently placed an online order, rare as that is.?
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On Dec 13, 2024, at 10:26, Pat Taylor via groups.io <pat412@...> wrote:
? I route all such messages to Junk and delete unopened. On Dec 13, 2024, at 9:47?AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? Two reasons for this post: - I get too much email
- I worry more and more about exposing my identity online
So, I’m wondering whether there’s risk involved in clicking “unsubscribe” when unneeded emails keep arriving from commercial or political entities where I’m quite certain that the incoming messages really ARE from whom they SAY they are, but are no longer relevant to my needs. Does clicking “unsubscribe” basically just create a confirmation that I’m a live target and therefore actually INCREASE my risk of phishing or scams? Should my strategy be just to route such messages to my junk folder instead?
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
Thanks for this tip that I hadn’t thought about!
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On Dec 13, 2024, at 1:54?PM, Jim Saklad via groups.io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
? jimrobertson wrote: I’m wondering whether there’s risk involved in clicking “unsubscribe” when unneeded emails keep arriving from commercial or political entities where I’m quite certain that the incoming messages really ARE from whom they SAY they are, but are no longer relevant to my needs. Does clicking “unsubscribe” basically just create a confirmation that I’m a live target and therefore actually INCREASE my risk of phishing or scams? Should my strategy be just to route such messages to my junk folder instead?
I have been clicking “Block Sender” on a lot of unsolicited emails., then trashing them.
jimdoc@...<Jim logo small.jpg>
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
jimrobertson wrote: I’m wondering whether there’s risk involved in clicking “unsubscribe” when unneeded emails keep arriving from commercial or political entities where I’m quite certain that the incoming messages really ARE from whom they SAY they are, but are no longer relevant to my needs. Does clicking “unsubscribe” basically just create a confirmation that I’m a live target and therefore actually INCREASE my risk of phishing or scams? Should my strategy be just to route such messages to my junk folder instead?
I have been clicking “Block Sender” on a lot of unsolicited emails., then trashing them.
jimdoc@...
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Re: Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
I route all such messages to Junk and delete unopened.
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On Dec 13, 2024, at 9:47?AM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? Two reasons for this post: - I get too much email
- I worry more and more about exposing my identity online
So, I’m wondering whether there’s risk involved in clicking “unsubscribe” when unneeded emails keep arriving from commercial or political entities where I’m quite certain that the incoming messages really ARE from whom they SAY they are, but are no longer relevant to my needs. Does clicking “unsubscribe” basically just create a confirmation that I’m a live target and therefore actually INCREASE my risk of phishing or scams? Should my strategy be just to route such messages to my junk folder instead?
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Jim Robertson
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Minimizing exposure to phishing attempts
Two reasons for this post: - I get too much email
- I worry more and more about exposing my identity online
So, I’m wondering whether there’s risk involved in clicking “unsubscribe” when unneeded emails keep arriving from commercial or political entities where I’m quite certain that the incoming messages really ARE from whom they SAY they are, but are no longer relevant to my needs. Does clicking “unsubscribe” basically just create a confirmation that I’m a live target and therefore actually INCREASE my risk of phishing or scams? Should my strategy be just to route such messages to my junk folder instead?
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Review of Digipinit.com in the UK
On Dec 10, 2024, at 2:39 PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
DO NOT MAKE PURCHASES FROM DIGIPINIT! Randy Singer, please take note. Contact me off line if you want to validate my review, to add to your files. I don’t recommend them. However, I do recommend: MS Office 2019 $45 __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
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