Dec 15, 2020 | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Akismet provides a convenient and free way to protect your personal WordPress site or blog from spam. Many times we’d like to allow comments to be left on our WordPress site. The hassle with this can be the tremendous amounts of spam that come through the forms...
Oct 28, 2020 | Scams & Spoofs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Spam
Almost all businesses get the usual spam SEO (Search Engine Optimization) phone calls and emails. Recently, one of our web clients took a spammer’s SEO phone call. As a result of such calls, she emailed us. Her concerns prompted this article. She expressed a lot...
Dec 19, 2019 | Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Google provides a free reCAPTCHA system that anyone with a Google account can use. It is much more effective because it is harder for form bots to figure out workarounds for. Note: Unfortunately, we at CharlesWorks do not have any control over how Google handles the...
Dec 12, 2019 | Domain Names, Email, Q & A, Scams & Spoofs, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Spam, Web Hosting, WordPress
Even though advertising is essential for any business, a referral from another client is usually the best. The staff here have decades of networking and experience with other businesses in the community. Please think of CharlesWorks as your trusted business resource....
Nov 12, 2019 | Email, Spam
Log in to your mail account on the mail server securely at https://mega.charlesworks.com: To mark an email as spam, right click on the mail item you want to flag as spam, then select Actions > Mark > Spam NOTE: If you flagged something accidentally or something...
Jun 9, 2018 | Email, Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
In many cases, email sent from forms in WordPress on does not make it to the Inbox of Google GMail addresses. Note: Unfortunately, we at CharlesWorks do not have any control over how Google or any other email provider chooses to filter email on their systems. If the...
Jan 21, 2015 | Email, Spam, Technical Help
Contrary to popular belief, computers – especially mail servers – don’t really “know” anything… Spam – unsolicited bulk commercial email – is a huge problem on the Internet. In the beginning of 2013, reports from some...
Sep 30, 2014 | Email, Spam, Technical Help
Most of us who are connected to the Internet have one or more e-mail accounts that we have to check. Just about every day we open our e-mail, we find messages from companies and people we’ve never heard from before trying to sell a gadget or service that we just can’t...
Sep 30, 2014 | Email, Spam, Technical Help
Log into your webmail account using your username and password: If you are receiving spam mail in your inbox: 1. Select the spam mail 2. Click the “spam” button After you continuously select a particular email address as spam, the server will start to...
Apr 1, 2013 | Scams & Spoofs, Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
We’ve been extremely busy over the past year and haven’t gotten our newsletter out as often as we’d have liked to. We are sending this particular one out to let you know about ongoing attacks on the Internet, the most recent of which have been...
