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Monday, November 30, 2009

Email scam
Thank you to a customer who notified us of the following email that was received this morning. It was made to look like it was from a local doctor who practices in Wamego but used an unconfirmed Yahoo.com email address.
The email reads as follows (all names have been removed):
From: FirstName LastName [lastnamefirstname@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 8:41 AM
To: undisclosed recipients
Subject: Hello

Hello, How are you doing? Hope all is well with you and your family, I am sorry I didn't inform you about my traveling to England for a Seminar/conference.

I need a favor from you as soon as you receive this email, I misplaced my wallet on my way to the hotel where my money, and other valuable things were kept. Can you urgently assist me with a soft loan of $2,600 US Dollars to sort-out my hotel bills and get myself back home. You are the only one I can trust with this, please can this be between us? You have my word; I will refund you as soon as I return.

I will appreciate whatever you can afford, I'll pay you back as soon as I return I promise, Let me know if you can assist, to enable me send you the details to use in sending the money through western union. -FirstName
Thanks to the customer for notifying us of this email scam.

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Choose a smarter password
Check out this post from the Gmail Blog about choosing a smarter password. In addition to changing your passwords from time to time, it's also important that you make sure your password isn't one that would be easy for someone to figure out and that you don't use the same one for your online banking or other services.

Now that our email service is powered by Google, you have the ability to change your password as you wish as long as it meets the minimum requirements of 6 characters.

Official Gmail Blog: Choosing a smart password

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Anti-phishing key in Google Apps Webmail
In last week's podcast, I referred to a key appearing next to an email from ebay or Paypal as a way to show that it's truly from them since so many phishing attempts are made pretending to be from those sites. The link at the end of this post goes into greater detail about that feature.

New in Labs: The super-trustworthy, anti-phishing key

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Reason 2495 for using webmail
Since the transition to Google for wamego.net email, I have stopped using an email client like Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird completely. One hurdle for me was the use of Labels in webmail instead of Folders to organize my email. Once I played around with Labels, I found that they were so much better than Folders and I could do a lot more with Labels. Google has continued to improve the functionality and uses for Labels. The latest addition is really cool. Like your favorite email client, you can now drag and drop your email messages to a certain Label and clean up your Inbox. Check out the link below to find out more about it. I'm already using it and it's a great feature. And no matter where I go, ALL of my email, old and new, is there for me to refer back to. So give it a try and if you already did and weren't sure, try it again with this new functionality.

Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more

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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Mute Your Email!

Have you ever archived a conversation three or four times because you didn't need another update and it keeps popping up in your inbox? Some people call it a 'thread that won't die.' If you're part of a long conversation that isn't relevant, you can mute the conversation for good.

Just press 'm' on your keyboard for the shortcut when viewing the conversation, and new messages added to the conversation bypass your inbox . The thread will remain archived. If your address appears in the to: or cc: field, though, the conversation will pop back into your inbox ready for your attention. This is best used when you're receiving mail based on a mailing list.

Note: this only works if you're using webmail.

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