by Charles Oropallo | July 6, 2021 5:33 pm | Email, Spam, Technical Help, WordPress
Spam Prevention nightmares Spam prevention has been a nightmare for all involved since even before I began CharlesWorks in 1998. Spammers: they are always trying to find ways around the spam protection. Email users: It is a constant battle trying to sort spam from...
by Charles Oropallo | March 27, 2021 1:11 pm | Technical Help, WordPress
The WP Forms plugin for WordPress is fairly popular and one of the plugins I like using for handle form inputs on websites. I especially like being able to tie in Google RECAPTCHA into it which greatly reduces form spam. Form spamming has become big business. Apps...
by Charles Oropallo | January 22, 2021 5:00 pm | Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Spam, Technical Help, Web Hosting, WordPress
I cannot begin to tell you how many people believe that once their website is done they are “all set”. Many think they don’t have to do anything more to it once it is out there live. While that may seem true in that moment, there is still much that...
by Charles Oropallo | October 28, 2020 12:30 pm | 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...
by Charles Oropallo | December 19, 2019 3:27 pm | 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...
by Robin Snow | November 12, 2019 10:31 am | 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...
by Charles Oropallo | January 21, 2015 10:57 am | 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...
by Charles Oropallo | September 30, 2014 10:57 am | 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...
by Charles Oropallo | September 30, 2014 10:57 am | 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...
