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Microsoft recently announced POP3 support for all Hotmail users, finally freeing your email to be used anywhere-even from the vastly superior Gmail.

If you’ve been on the internet for any substantial amount of time you’ve likely accumulated your fair share of email addresses. Old school addresses, an assortment of free web-based addresses from Hotmail and Yahoo, and so on all contribute to you having too many addresses and little desire to keep checking the old ones.

Recently I’ve had an increase in questions from users concerned about the legitimacy of e-mails they’ve received. To help users recognize the scam e-mails that do sneak by filters. Here are some ways to protect yourself from phishing and scam emails…