Notice an increase of spam creeping into your inbox lately? MCN is seeing an increase in the use of a spam scheme where the spammer makes the sender address the same as the recipient's address. If you've put your own email address on your Safe Senders List then, when the e-mail arrives appearing to have come "from" you, we don't screen it because any address on the Safe Senders List will bypass all the spam filters and go straight to your inbox.

In light of this most recent spam ruse, we recommend removing your address from your Safe Senders List . The worst that can happen is that a message that you send to yourself might be quarantined. You don't have to have an address in the Safe Senders List in order to receive mail from that address. What the Safe Senders List does is remove all screening for spam from an address. Review your Safe Sender List by going to: http//spamcontrol.mcn.org and then clicking on LISTS (in bottom left column)-->Safe Senders. Put a check by any safe sender you want to remove and then click the Delete button.

Please click here to view the Safe Sender List instructions, with screen shots, on our web site