Email

Inboxes are currently being hit by emails that urge you to click to view documents on Microsoft’s file hosting service OneDrive.

The newsletter will feature articles from Hoax-Slayer and other interesting and relevant websites. It will help you stay informed about current Internet scams and hoaxes, important computer security issues, and related tech topics.

Brief emails claiming that you have messages waiting and can click to view the notifications are currently hitting inboxes. 

Journalists have often asked me if I think modern technology such as email, social media, and the Internet has made it easier to perpetrate hoaxes than it was in earlier times.

According to this supposed server upgrade warning, you have messages pending because you have used 98% of your email account storage. 

Sorry to be blunt, but, if you USE ALL CAPS in your email or social media posts, you will immediately make yourself seem inexperienced or ignorant. 

You can make life just that little bit easier for the recipients of your email by ensuring that you use a meaningful subject line.

Criminals often try to make their scam emails seem more legitimate by disguising links. In this video, we show a quick to way to check links in such emails.

Configuring your email software to automatically add an email signature to outgoing messages can save time and help to promote yourself online.

According to this email, which bills itself as a “final warning” deactivation notice, your mailbox quota is full.