Use your phone’s “Silence Unknown Callers” (iPhone) or spam protection settings (Android) to automatically block or send un ...

Spam and scam calls have turned the simple act of answering your phone into a risk calculation, but on the iPhone a surprising amount of protection is already built in. With a few quiet tweaks, you ...

Anecdotal evidence from Gmail users—including the author of this story—suggests that something changed with Gmail’s spam filter settings in recent weeks, resulting in the email provider letting ...

If you constantly get text notifications from people trying to sell you something, or people who want to offer you deals, you may be a victim of spam texts. Spam texts are irritating and a waste of ...

A spam filter is a program that automatically processes incoming messages to sift out spam and potentially dangerous computer viruses. There are many types of spam filters, thanks to the ever growing ...

Email can be a wonderful thing. Hearing the notification sound from the Mail app and seeing that those tickets you ordered are on their way, relatives announcing there’s a new addition to the family, ...

Years ago, email spam was a huge problem. There was an escalating war between spammers and spam filters. Eventually, spam filter technology won. Although email spam is still a thing, the vast majority ...

Instagram now allows users to easily review and remove suspicious spam or bot followers. Accounts suspected of being spam are ...

Ever since I left SL on my main iMac about a year ago Mail.app's spam filtering has been awful. On a typical morning I log in to 50+ spam messages in my inbox and only a few in the actual spam folder.