Digital point of sale (POS) systems are becoming more prevalent, giving rise to digital receipts. Oftentimes, we’d rather skip the tax write-off if it means that we may receive SMS and email spam.
Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to our article Linked In, Opted Out, we’ve put together this cheatsheet to help members switch their primary email addresses for online services and social media to a Bulc Club Forwarder to prevent spam.
If you’ve read our case study on InstantCheckmate, you’ll see that subscribing to online services may flood your inbox with bulkmail from a variety of email addresses and domains. This is part of how these shady businesses make money. They require you to provide an email address in order to use their service. They, themselves, may never spam you, but you could receive hundreds of messages from their “marketing partners.” Read more
If you’ve read our case study on InstantCheckmate, you’ll see that subscribing to online services may flood your inbox with bulkmail from a variety of email addresses and domains. This is part of how these shady businesses make money. They require you to provide an email address in order to use their service. They, themselves, may never spam you, but you could receive hundreds of messages from their “marketing partners.” Read more
For the past few months, we’ve been seeing numerous tweets by frustrated people indicating that LinkedIn sold their email addresses to spammers. However unethical their marketing practices, Bulc Club can quickly and easily protect your inbox, blocking all unwanted LinkedIn spam.
Have you ever received a sudden onslaught of spam and wondered where it came from? Bulc Club Statistics make it easy for you to identify who sold your email address and block their spam instantly, with the flip of a switch.
Free New Service Crowdsources Ratings of Email Senders to Block Unwanted Mail
NEW YORK, Aug. 12 ? Crowdsourcing and social networking are everywhere, nowadays. So why not use them to prevent spam? Read more
Oftentimes, we enter online sweepstakes to win vacations, shopping sprees, and other free things. The downside to these contests is that we’re providing our email addresses to businesses with the intent of sending us newsletters and information about their services. In fact, the collection of email addresses is likely the reason the business created the contest in the first place.
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Bulc Club is a membership-based email filtering and forwarding service. This means that you keep your favorite email address, but rather than giving it to businesses and third parties, you give them one of our (unlimited) forwarders, instead.
Imagine you hire a dog-walker so they can walk your dog while you’re at work. While you may be leery about trusting the business, the simple convenience of this service warrants the risk. So you give them your house key with the best of intentions.
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