National Spending Journal – By Shoeboxed

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Back in July when we were testing Shoeboxed before we launched it to the public, we thought it would be necessary to have someone sign up for a bunch of mailing lists from online stores.
Well, for some reason, I was chosen to take on the wonderful chore of finding the most popular online retailers and [...]

In my 21 years of life, I’ve bought ONE t-shirt from J.Crew online, but in the last two weeks, I’ve received the following e-mails from their online store:
Last Chance for free shipping
Presenting… free shipping
New at Crewcuts… Seaside Chic
Hello sale…
New men’s must-have: the cardigan
Let’s recap why this is annoying. First of all, I don’t need a [...]

A few weeks ago, Mo described how people have begun to create temporary, disposable email addresses to combat the rising threat and annoyance of email spam. It shocked me to learn that people are willing to go to such lengths to avoid spam. First, people have to find the website that supports this process, [...]

Lord Jeffery once said, “A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.” Today, this statement rings true to web users everywhere, as “phishers” impersonate a vast number of reputable businesses, including PayPal, eBay, Inc., Bank of America Corporation, and Citibank. According to Phishtank.com, an organization committed to eliminating [...]

It’s exciting to wake up to an email inbox with ten new messages. As often as this may happen, chances are that most, if not all, will be spam. Statistically, 8 of 10 emails received are spam. This has caused users to create disposable, or temporary, email addresses.
There are about ten frequently used websites where [...]

Never open suspicious email. It seems like a no brainer, but people do it all the time. If you don’t know who the email is from, you shouldn’t even bother looking at it—no matter how enticing the subject may look. If you’re not careful, you can end up with a virus that [...]

Spam is such a crazy thing. This year, spam messages are expected to overtake human-issued emails—that’s right, the average person will receive more corporate mailings than person-to-person emails in the year 2007. That’s pretty scary, especially since spam has become increasingly sophisticated. I find it more and more difficult to decipher between [...]