Figurera ut som on-line konton säljer din e-post till spammers
Förmiddag som I göras rosenrasande constantly av beloppet av spam som jag får i mitt dagliga e-postkonto. För att citera en vän av min: “Honestly bör denna vara numrera en utfärdar i världen i dag. Glöm att förklara kriga på slumpmässiga länder, låt oss förklarar kriger på spam och instiftar dödsstraffstunderna som vi är på den!“
Jag kunde inte instämma mer. Låt så oss starta upp ett program för att figurera ut vem den är det, säljer din e-post tilltalar till spammersna. Vi ska start med ett nytt nytt Gmail redogöra, därför att de ger särdrag som vi söker efter, som är att tilltala för +plus.
I grunden är plusen som tilltalar hjälpmedel, om din e-post tilltalar DONOTSPAMME@gmail.com, därefter kan du också motta på e-post DONOTSPAMME+citibank@gmail.com.
Så här är planera. För varje av dina on-line konton ska du ändring som din e-post tilltalar till DONOTSPAMME+accountname@gmail.com, var DONOTSPAMME är din kända faktiska e-post, och accountname är fastställd till kontot som du loggar in i.
För anföra som exempel, mig har fått efter: (inte faktiskt tilltalar, precis en illustration),
Geico: geekervongeekerson+geico@gmail.com
Citibank: geekervongeekerson+citibank@gmail.com
För att detta ska fungera, måste du att se till att du inte startar att exponera detta konto omkring. Starta inte utnämning på nyhetsgrupper eller något något liknande det.
, då nu du startar att få skräpreklam på detta nya konto, bör du ser omgående att vem är att sälja som är ditt, tilltala, därför att den ska visar upp som username+guiltyspammers@gmail.com
Om du figurerar vem det är, det säljer ut din e-post till spammers, tappar en kommentar in i den nedanföra boxas.
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Yeah i treid to do this but u cnt put a + in the email name.
Some websites may not allow you to do that, but most do.
o i was doinin wrong anyway
lol thxs
I have been using Gmail as my SPAM filter, which is very effective. I did a write up on my site. I haven’t received a SPAM message since I set this up a couple weeks ago.
So my question is, why would you want to spend time finding out who is selling addresses? You would be constantly working at it and the point, I think, is to not have to deal with SPAM at all.
@mohawke: …spite?
I always use disposeable adresses from http://www.spamgourmet.org. It basically lets you create one-use adresses, forwards the first few emails to that account to an adress you have specified before and throws everything that comes after. Great tool!
Great idea, but perhaps spammers will just clean their email addresses of anything after the plus sign? like drop the “+foobar” from: myemail+foobar@gmailcom etc? Cheers, Jon
Jon Grant is right plus instead of using plus address, use instead disposable email addresses like from http://www.mailinator.com which gives you a random email address to provide to sites that require one before letting you proceed to whatever you want to do and mailinator would also allow you to check your inbox for let’s say a password for a forum sent to your mailinator address.
The problem that i see with this kind of mechanism is that someday if GMAIL just stops this feature, we land ourselves in soup…
Cheers,
Vaibhav
@mohawke – I’d be interested to hear more about how you’ve used GMail to filter spam. I setup a Gmail account a year or so ago, but found that more spam landed in the inbox than over at my Yahoo account.
I pay for my e-mail, as it is included with my web hosting fee, and thus I have unlimited e-mail aliases. I have been using what is effectively the same as you have suggested (+addressing) for a number of years now, and it really works well. I have only found one site, though, selling my address when I did not expect it before giving out the address.
when I do suspect that a site to which I must submit an e-mail address may sell my address, i give out one that I will remember (i even have a txt file with such addresses stored), and if I find out that they really do, I will add a custom filter/rule for my inbox to just delete such messages in addition to reporting them to the appropriate authority. it’s just good business.
@Sandra
I have had the exact opposite experience. Things I specifically tell Yahoo to filter, it doesn’t. Yet GMail filters out about 99%+ of my spam…
Fortunately, Yahoo increased their box size so I can let the spam go and then just choose the majority of messages in the inbox and hit Delete.
The downside of this, is those sites you may not visit on a daily basis, in which your “username” (often called login name too, or somesuch) is your e-mail address.
NOW, you must remember, that you signed up with “dontspamme+geico@gmail.com” instead of “dontspamme@gmail.com”.
I’ve had this mishap occur on some forums I registered to, thinking I would only be there “temporarily” – i.e.: one time tech question…..well turns out I love the forum, and go there a lot. Well, one day, I forgot my password (I lost my password safe file…lol) and well, the “forgot password” didn’t help much, because i couldn’t figure out what address I signed up with, and whether or not I used plus addressing
Now, if you got in the habit of doing this for “all” registrations, then it’s no problem….but as pointed out above, not all sites allow the “plus addressing” – and also pointed out, it can’t be too hard to programmatically clear out everything between the + and the @ sign
But for those “automated” spammers, sure, you might catch some
i wrote a fairly long comment and it was not taken because i had used subject related words. (trying not to do it again). would you have a list of those words so i can know which ones stopped the comment from being accepted?
So, if someone BOUGHT your Email address, so they could send you junk; wheres the money & why aren`t people with email accounts getting there CUT ?
@Fred Stevens
Yes, I think what you are referring to is the ability to set up a catch all email account. You can set up your mail client rules to automatically move the email with a specific address into a folder. This is a great method, as you can just make up whatever email you want (ANYTHING@YOURDOMAIN.COM) you don’t need to add that email on your mail server, instead, you just set up rules to sort the email locally (on your PC, not your server) Pretty straight forward and easy to do.
Don’t use the catch all email (the main one) for anything, because it will get spammed anyway. You can even give your friends a specific address that lands in your “friend’s” folder. You will also have the peace of mind to know you can check your main (catch all) account if you suspect it contains an important email.