👍 #878 – Why Am I Getting Email Sent to an Email Address Similar to Mine?

This week's featured article

It's deceptive. It's means to lure you into a false sense of security, or at least pique your curiosity.

Getting email from or to an email address that's almost exactly like your own -- but not quite.

If you know what it means, you'll know exactly what to do.

Why Am I Getting Email Sent to an Email Address Similar to Mine? I'll tell you why, and what it is you should do about it.

Also this week:

• Sharing your Wi-Fi? You might be sharing more than you think.
• Don't throw those old internal drives away, reuse them!
• Beef up your backup strategy with nearly continuous cloud backup.

TEH Podcast

Gary and I each put out a lot of content. A lot. Ask Leo!'s up to well over 5,000 articles, not to mention 878 newsletters, over thousand videos, and who knows what else I can't think of right now. Gary's in a similar boat over at MacMost. So, aside from consistency and just doing it for years, what's the secret? There are several, and we discuss some of 'em in this week's episode: TEH 142: How do we produce so much content? (the secrets)

See you next week!

This Week's Featured Article

Why Am I Getting Email Sent to an Email Address Similar to Mine?
When it kinda sorta looks like yours, but it's not.

It's not uncommon to get unexpected email sent to an email address similar to your own. I'll review why that is and what to do about it.

https://askleo.com/136523

Also This Week on Ask Leo!

If I Share Wi-Fi With My Neighbor, Can They See My Network Traffic? Plus what else might be exposed.
Sharing Wi-Fi with your neighbor might seem like a friendly thing to do, but be aware you are potentially putting your own computers at risk. https://askleo.com/2395

How to Use Old HDDs as External Drives A valuable salvage with many uses.
When replacing a hard drive or an entire machine, it can be very convenient to have the old hard drive available in an external drive enclosure. https://askleo.com/4768

Back Up with Dropbox Use Dropbox for almost real-time backup.
Using Dropbox to share files across machines is pretty common. You can also use Dropbox on only one machine as backup technology. https://askleo.com/17696

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Back Up with Dropbox Using Dropbox to share files across machines is pretty common. You can also back up with Dropbox on only one machine. https://youtu.be/jjlipnAI3Hk

How to Use Old HDDs as External Drives When replacing a hard drive or an entire machine, it can be very convenient to use old HHDs in an external drive enclosure. https://youtu.be/TVC_3r3ezBY

Why am I Getting Email Sent to an Email Address Similar to Mine? It's not uncommon to get unexpected email sent to an email address similar to your own. I'll review why that is, and what to do about it. https://youtu.be/bksESxh605o

If I Share Wi-Fi With My Neighbor, Can They See My Network Traffic? Sharing Wi-Fi with your neighbor might seem like a friendly thing to do, but be aware you are potentially putting your own computers at risk. https://youtu.be/yOez7fU7nDY

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