Over the years, scammers have become very inventive in their efforts to swindle you out of your money, privacy, security and sanity. They have pretended to be everything from your family, friends, ...

My inbox has been out of control for a long, long time. But–finally–I am down to five emails in my inbox. I’ve taken a series of steps over the last year or so that have helped me get to this point. I ...

For years, my approach to email was like slaying a hydra. For every email I deleted, two more landed in my inbox. Part of the problem, I knew, was the nature of my work. My team stands between two ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

Have you ever shopped at an online store once, and then found yourself dealing with a constant influx of marketing spam emails for weeks and even months? Virtually every online service wants me to ...

My Gmail inbox used to be a total mess. While I’ve always been diligent about reading my emails, I was also terrible at managing them. The number of emails in my inbox—ostensibly a place to triage ...

Apple's "Hide My Email" feature lets you create fake email addresses that keep your real email private. You can use Hide My Email when signing up for new services with your Apple ID or when sending ...

Are you an Android user wondering what it would be like to use Apple's Hide My Email service? Often, digital service providers send promotional emails, which could clutter users' inbox and make it ...

Have you experienced lower-than-usual open rates for your email marketing lately? If you open an email marketing campaign and ask yourself, “why are my emails bouncing?” or “why is my open rate so low ...