One thing that saves us from opening a vicious email filled with malware is that most of these emails go directly to our junk or spam folders.
Once in a while, a legitimate email can be sent to your spam folder instead of your inbox. We recommend you check your spam folder periodically for legitimate emails sent by mistake, and here's why.
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In January 2022, a woman from Oakland, Michigan, was searching in her spam folder for a missing email when she noticed an email from the Michigan Lottery declaring that she'd won the $3 million jackpot. Initially, and wisely, she thought this must be too good to be true and assumed it was a phishing scam.
Get this, after logging on to her Michigan Lottery account, she learned she was the big winner.
To make sure the same thing wouldn't happen again should history, and her good luck, repeat itself, she made sure to mark any future emails from the Michigan lottery as 'not spam.'
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More often than not, we all might find an email we've been waiting for sitting unopened in our spam folders.
This is because after you mark some emails as spam or junk, nearly all email services will filter emails with similar subjects or addresses into your spam or junk folders. However, most email services have an easy way to ensure this never happens again by labeling certain emails as 'not spam.'
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To mark an email as 'not spam' in Gmail:
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To mark an email as 'not spam' in Microsoft Outlook:
To mark an email as 'not spam' in Apple Mail (on desktop):
To mark an email as 'not spam' in Mail on iOS devices:
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To mark an email as 'not spam' in AOL Webmail:
To mark an email as "not spam" in Yahoo! Mail:
Another way to prevent important emails from ending up in your spam folder on just about any email service is by putting these email addresses in your contact list. No email services will send a recognized email from your contacts into your spam folders.
To add an email to your contact list in Gmail:
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To add an email to your contact list in Microsoft Outlook:
To add an email to your contact list in Apple Mail:
To add an email to your contact list in Mail on iOS devices:
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To add an email to your contact list in Mail on AOL Webmail:
To add an email to your contact list in Mail on Yahoo Mail:
With all this in mind, do remember to proceed with caution before opening any emails sent to your spam folder, as your email service more than likely sent them there for a justifiable reason.
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