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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: Find out who gives away your email address with Gmail trick
When you give your email address to a website, you hope that they don't sell or trade your address to a bunch of spammers. Well if they do, here is a simple way to see what sites are responsible for what particular piece of email. This requires you have a Gmail account.
If your Gmail login name was username@gmail.com and you went to samplesite.com to fill out a registration form, instead of just entering username@gmail.com as your email, enter it as username+samplesitecom@gmail.com instead. When Gmail sees a "+" in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to username@gmail.com.
Now whats cool is if you search Gmail for username+samplesitecom, you will see all massages that were sent to that email address.
To see who is responsible for sending a specific message click the Show Details link and you will see the complete address.
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: Latest Blog Post : Blog and earn!
I will also try it sometimes today. It will be good. But I think people will soon track this out.
ajiissac+samplesite.com@gmail.com
Either the samplesite.com or the third party will remove it before sending an email.
I think the solution is
Have email aliases - Say blahblahajiissac@gmail.com can be created with some additional notes which will point to ajiissac(at)gmail.com. I think for Google it should not be a problem. This will help us achieve this. Wow I think I just gave away a million dollar idea to Google and Yahoos of email realm .
Thank you for sharing this PCBGuy,
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:03 pm Post subject: Good idea, but nothing new...
This has always been legal, sendmail and postfix have supported it for eons. The only problem is that some forms use JS validation and flag it as a bad address.
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 4:59 pm Post subject: what difference does it make?
you'll still be spammed and whatever online site sold you out won't give a shit...a better strategy is to create a yahoo account and use it for site registration, online purchases, ebay, etc. you'll get spammed like hell, but you won't use the account except to validate your registration, check order status, etc, so who cares? ...you'll have your gmail account for personal and business contacts, which will stay relatively spam free...try it...it's served me well
You can achieve the same with spamgourmet.com and there you can also set maximum limit of messages you want to receive from that particular site (they will be forwarded to your real undisclosed e-mail address).
I've always had a problem with this approach. It becomes very trivial for a person to get your actual email address. So if I was harvesting emails when I come across a gmail account I would make sure my programs looks for a + symbol and if it finds it remove it and everything that follows it up to the @ symbol.
Yahoo has what I consider a better service for their mail called "AddressGuard" that allows you to create a disposable email account thats not related to your real email in the sense that you cant figure out your true email address from the disposable one. But you still get the emails and everything. This may be part of the paid feature in Yahoo Mail which I subscribe to but this feature alone makes it worth paying for.
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject: AMAZING Emailias.com...
...lets you create unlimited alias addresses to your real address. Browser-based bookmark lets you create an alias fast on the page you're visiting. Remembers the website the alias was given to so you don't have to. Takes care of replies so it appears to be from the alias that originally received it. Paid uses can use your own domain (i.e. some places don't like to accept free gmail/hotmail addresses). I've used this for years and have upwards of 300 aliases...it just works. Now I just don't worry about giving up an email address...sweet!
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: an even better idea...
This is a creative idea, but the bottom line is that it doesn't do anything to stop the spam. In fact, it will cause you to get even more spam, because username+samplesitecom@gmail.com will get sold to all the spammers, AS WELL as all the other ones you use, like username+site2com@gmail.com, username+site3com@gmail.com, username+site4com@gmail.com. The spammers will see them as separate addresses, and you'll get a whole new batch of spam for each variation you use.
A better idea is to set up your own POP account and e-mail adresses with your own domain. When one address gets unacceptably polluted--perhaps annually--just make a new one. Not highly convenient if you spread your e-mail around a lot, but it's 100% spamproof.
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: Welcome to 3 years ago
Hey retards, this has been available since GMails inception, and its how its intended to be used. Didnt any of you bumblefucks read the FAQ when GMail was released? Or any of the news about gmails launch that mentioned this?
Christ, next you'll be making a post about how you can surf to different websites by clicking hyperlinks.
I have doing this for many years but bit with not with gmail.
If you have your own web hosting account for a domain you own and your provided has a "catch-all" e-mail account you can do this.
Lets say you register an account with Amazon.com. Enter your email address with them as "amazon.com@your_domain.whatever]"
This has worked nicely for me. I once got a gift certificate from this one small online-retailer for a couple of hundred bucks when I traced a bunch of SPAM I was receiving to them Despite their privacy policy which said they don't sell e-mail addresses they claim that they found out that one of their IT guys was selling e-mail addresses to spammers.
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