I think I'm hallucinating or something: it appears that I'm getting spam events added mysteriously to my Google Calendar schedule. What the heck? How is that happening, and how can I stop it occurring?...

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My brother recently got a call telling him that he could get his tax refund that's part of the economic stimulus package early - and not have to wait until May or later. He almost gave his savings account number,...

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I'm wondering if I can create a group within my google contacts and make these group also available to other google users. I realized on your website that you are a google guru - so I thought I give it...

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I hate to check my mailbox on MySpace because there are a half-dozen people who seem to have some spamming tool or something and send me dozens of "Request to Approve Comment" messages. What the heck is up with that...

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Saw your note about Yahoo IM "spim" and I too have a couple of jerks who are sending me this junk. Can you tell me how to block them so I don't hear from them again? Thanks!...

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I got a request to have someone connect with me via Yahoo Messenger, and though I didn't recognize the email address, I said "yes". Next thing I know there's a message from them that's full of sequences like . What...

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I can't sit down for dinner without having my phone ring a half-dozen times with stupid junk calls. From carpet to refinancing my mortgage, holiday discounts to drugs, if someone's trying to sell it via telemarketer, they seem to think...

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I don't get it, Dave. I get reams of lame, idiotic spam email and occasionally read through them to see what offers are being made, and they're just so incredibly dumb that I can't imagine that ANYone would ever respond....

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I am concerned regarding eMail that I send to a variety of people. I know that they ARE receiving my letters or information....However, I receive eMails telling me that the messages failed. I know for sure that they have not....

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This is weird: I think I got some spam from Picasa, the popular photo hosting service from Google. Is that something you've heard of before, Dave? And what can I do about ?...

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I don't know what's going on, but every so often I get an email message in Microsoft Entourage that doesn't have any message body, even though the person who sent it insists that they included a message. Is there some...

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In the early days of the Internet, back when we called it a "dirt road" and were delighted when email bounced from UUCP connection to UUCP connection as is slowly wound its way from one end of the topological jungle...

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I know that it's probably crude, but I keep getting spam talking about "milf" and have no idea what it means. Can you enlighten me?...

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I keep getting stupid and spammy comments on my MySpace profile and I have heard that there's some way you can actually have them all queue and manually approve them? That sounds awesome. Howzit done, Dave?...

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Dave, there are a bunch of new comments on my MySpace profile that link to "msplinks.com", even though they look like they're from different people. Is this some sort of unified attack on my profile or what?...

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My wife found an email from my spam box in my gmail account that was a reply from an email that was sent from my email address. The problem is I never wrote the email. The address reply is my...

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I am a total newbie to internet marketing and I am excited by the many opportunities I've found. Recently, I joined a new group through an affiliate link and when I paid, was given a list of 125,000 names and...

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In the past 3 days I've received dozens of returned e-mails that appear to be sent by my domain name but that are not valid email addresses. For example I received a returned e-mail today that was "sent" from nvsnx@mydomainname.com...

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I just attended a "barcamp" event in Denver [see BarCamp Denver] and was a bit baffled by one thing that they started talking about: what the heck is 'wikispam'?...

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I don't get it, and frankly I'm a bit freaked out: I just got an email message from a company I'd never heard of that said it had matched a couple of possible jobs to my resume, but I never...

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Dave, you wrote earlier about getting spam through the Plaxo system [see Can I get Plaxo Spam?], but I'm wondering if other systems could also be used to generate spam, and if so, how?...

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