Blocking unknown email text messages can improve our online security. 

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Miguel Chateloin (L) and Lazaro Gamio use their computers to write code that would allow people living in Cuba to use email to post to blogs during the Hackathon for Cuba event on February 1, 2014 in Miami, Florida.

Hackers and other cybercriminals are taking advantage of people's use of the internet. This is because many users still underestimate the consequences of opening messages from unknown email addresses. 

If you are one of them, should now start blocking unknown email text messages. 

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A woman looks at her email on a computer screen in Washington on November 23, 2010. Americans will take a break from the office over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays but most won't stop checking their work emails, according to a survey released on Tuesday. 

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Here are some of the methods they use to trick their victims: 

• Asking users to register to vote. 
• Asking users to enter content on unknown websites. 
• Asking users to send their credit card information. 
• Claiming that users' accounts were breached. 
• Asking users to fill out a random form on a website using their mobile numbers. 

If you don't want to become one of their victims, there are some red flags that you need to check before opening their email text messages. 

These include the following: 

• The email text message offers too-good-to-be-true item deals. 
• The email text message is talking about irrelevant topics, such as a product you never ordered before. 
• The email text message usually has grammatical errors.  

Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Outlook

Blocking unknown email text messages on Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Outlook, is easier than you think. 

Luckily, the Clario Blog provided all the steps you can follow: 

Gmail 

1. First, click the unwanted email message. 
2. After that, tap on the More Options button. 
3. Then, click the "Block Sender" option. When you receive a prompt, just confirm that you want to block the email address. 

Yahoo Mail 

1. First, visit Settings and click the "More Settings" option. 
2. After that, choose Privacy and click the Add button; it can be located under the Blocked Addresses. 
3. Just paste the email address you want to block. 

Outlook 

1. First, right-click the Windows option. 
2. After that, choose the Security Options and click the Block button. 
3. Then, click the OK button to confirm.  

In other news, Google claimed that the Russia-Ukraine conflict changed the cybercrime ecosystem. 

We also reported about the newly spotted crypto malware, which targets cryptocurrency investors in the U.S. and the U.K. 

For more news updates about cybersecurity and other related topics, always keep your tabs open here at TechTimes.  

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