Junk email, spam: Simple step to keep your mailboxes free

Often email users' mailboxes are inundated with unsolicited credit card and insurance offers. These are known as junk mails. The culprits behind this influx are the major credit reporting bureaus: Experian, Equifax, TransUnion, and Innovis.

These bureaus furnish credit and insurance companies with lists of consumers meeting particular criteria for prescreened offers. It's entirely legal, but there's a remedy: Opt Out Prescreen, a tool crafted by these very credit bureaus.

Once can visit optoutprescreen.com. This website offers the option to opt out for either five years or indefinitely, then complete the provided form. If opting out permanently, the process requires snail mail, but the effort is worthwhile. Print the confirmation form, sign it, and mail it to the specified address.


Meanwhile, the US Tennis Association has enlisted two lawyers at a Washington-based firm to look into its safeguarding policies and procedures to protect players from sexual misconduct and other abuse.

Lew Sherr, the CEO and executive director of the organization that runs the U.S. Open and oversees the sport in the United States, wrote about the review in an email sent Thursday to the USTA Board of Directors, various staff and volunteers and obtained by The Associated Press.

FAQs:

Q1. Why is snail mail required?
A1. Once can visit optoutprescreen.com. This website offers the option to opt out for either five years or indefinitely, then complete the provided form. If opting out permanently, the process requires snail mail, but the effort is worthwhile. Print the confirmation form, sign it, and mail it to the specified address.

Q2. What are junk mails?
A2. Unsolicited credit card and insurance offers.