HBO's John Oliver is using Donald Trump's email program to fuel his comedy. The comedian has signed up to be a 'Trump Election Observer' and the latest installment featured Trump's assertion that Obama created ISIS, which he later backtracked on. The campaign promises that joining the email list will allow the team "to do everything we are legally allowed to do to stop crooked Hillary from rigging this election."

Former New York Governor David Paterson criticized Hillary Clinton for how she handled being cleared of criminal behavior in her email scandal. In a radio interview on 970-AM in New York, the Democrat accused Clinton of doing a "victory lap" after the charges were dropped instead of admitting her mistakes and being more humble.

Thrillist.com has voted Gmail's Inbox app the best email app around. The app allows users to sort emails into "bundles" by category. For instance, users can sort travel emails together and promotional emails into a folder and receipts into the purchases folder. The app is designed to help inbox zero be more attainable.

Scammers are targeting freshman college students in the U.K., with spam email messages that include malicious links. The emails, which look like they come from Student Finance England, encourage the students to update their student loan information but the links contain malware.

Spammers have adopted Trump's persona over Clinton's persona in spam emails, according to a new report from security firm Proofpoint. The company looked at thousands of suspicious messages that targeted its corporate clients, and found that spammers were 169 times more likely to use Trump's name than Clinton's.

The United States may issue economic sanctions against Russia after the DNC email leak released by WikiLeaks. The officials working on the case haven't agreed yet on how to impose the sanctions, according to reports.

Comedian James Veitch engages with an email spammer that says he could earn a $6 million profit through snail farming. Veitch accepts the offer but has a number of questions for the spammer about how a snail farm can be so profitable.

Hilton Hotel's loyalty team sent out an email to its HHonors program members that its own IT department thought was a spam email. The email asked program members to confirm their contact details by logging into their accounts and updating their stored contact information. After one customers complained that it looked like a scam on Twitter, the company's IT team confirmed that it was spam. However, the marketing team confirmed that the email is legitimate.

Google has revealed plans to send Gmail users alerts when a shady piece of email lands in their inbox. The company is sending the update to question whether the recipient should really click on the links or attachments contained in the email. While Gmail already includes warnings in messages, the new alerts are aimed to help identify links to websites known for hosting malicious software, or if Gmail can't authenticate that the identity of the sender.

Chicago-based staffing and recruitment firm LaSalle Network has stopped using email for a day. The idea is to get employees to communicate with each other face to face or over the phone to improve personal relations in business. The experiment is meant to inspire a new approach to communications going forward.