Microsoft have released several email programs over the years with the word “Outlook” in the title Are they different programs or different versions of the same “Outlook” email program? Are you confused by “Outlook” and what it means? It’s all very well creating brand recognition, but my experience with my own clients here in London …
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Variation on a theme of an email scam
It’s a good idea to be aware of this scam used by email hackers A couple of months ago I received an email from a client (apparently) that revealed a bit of a twist on a well-known email scam. This client had suffered an email hack about a year previously (through having a weak password). …
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What if your email service closes?
TalkTalk is ending its free email service to former customers It is becoming more common for email providers to cease providing free email. A while ago, John Lewis ended their association with Plusnet and stopped their email service to anyone with an email address @john-lewis.com, @greenbee.net or @waitrose.com. For more information, see this link. Now TalkTalk …
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Why you might not want to download images in emails
One man’s privacy is another man’s paranoia Email clients and webmail services allow you to choose whether to automatically download images in emails. If you don’t allow the downloading of images by default then you still have the choice to download them in each specific email that contains them. You can, of course, ignore the …
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E-receipts and data privacy
What do you do when a shop assistant asks for your email address when you’ve just made a purchase? The reason they give is that they want to send you a receipt by email (an e-receipt), but I bet they won’t mention e-receipts and data privacy. They will say that email is better than a …
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Outlook Search – Where Did it Find the Results?
Outlook Search may be good at finding things – but it’s not so good at telling you WHERE it found them Simple search in Outlook To begin with, a bit of clarification about “Outlook” This article is about the version of Outlook that is part of Microsoft 365 (or Microsoft Office, as it used to …
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Spear Phishing
What is Spear Phishing? Ordinary phishing We’ve all received phishing emails that pretend they are from trusted sources such as banks. They want us to hand over information that will let them steal money from us. They are “phishing” for information that will allow them to steal from us. To begin with, such email scams …
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