Telemarketing and spam calls are relentless, and you might be surprised to learn that you can do little to stop them — for example, political campaigns are exempt from the National Do Not Call ...

If your emails are landing in spam, it’s rarely due to a single mistake. Spam placement is usually the result of small technical gaps adding up, misaligned authentication, weak sending discipline, or ...

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 ...

Apple is stepping up its fight against unwanted calls and messages in iOS 26 with smarter voicemail reporting. Here's how it works. The most visible change is a new option in the Phone app that lets ...

SMS spam detection and filtering is a crucial area of research addressing both the nuisance and potential harm posed by unsolicited messages on mobile networks. As SMS remains a fundamental channel ...

There's an ever-escalating arms race between spammers and the rest of us. There's no more tangible sign of this than the Spam folder in a Gmail account -- my own fills up with dozens, maybe hundreds ...

With spam calls outnumbering actual calls, they have become one of the biggest nuisances for smartphone users. Phone anxiety has assumed a new form, where I dread yet another call from a scammer. To ...

The Republican National Committee claimed Google unfairly filtered its emails at a higher rate than Democratic ones. The Republican National Committee claimed Google unfairly filtered its emails at a ...

or some, spam is like ants at a picnic: uninvited, ubiquitous and annoying. For many others, whose uninvited e-mails flood their computer mailbox, it’s an expensive headache. Try as you might, ...

Well I had never noticed this before, but today I got 3 authentic emails that Google labeled as spam. I thought the spam filters on most major websites were very careful as to what they select as spam ...