How to alter your Gmail id before submitting it to any doubtful site
Every lot of sites ask us to submit our details or at least email id before we can reach to the stuff you want.
And we end up receiving lot of spam mails into our inbox.
After few days we come to know that we are getting more useless mails than the required one.
Gmail provides a great way to stay protected from such spamming.
You can alter your email id before you submit it to any fictitious site.
Here is how to do it.
Your email id:
first.last@gmail.com
While submitting submit it as
first.last+somekeyword@gmail.com
So even if you submit this kind of mail id, it works and GMail delivers theses emails into your inbox.
Only advantage you have is if you recognize those emails as spam, then you can set a filter to send them directly to trash as soon as they arrive.
Happy surfing.
Okay. Nice tip, but I think there are some flaws in it. You are already giving up the cake. These dubious sites can easily strip away the +somekeyword or whatever with regex. Services like mailinator, 10minutemail or something that forwards to you is the way to go. This tip does not give you anonymity, so it doesn’t really matter what you put +whatever if I can strip that away.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:12 PMHey Brent,
You are right! If someone wants to rip your ID then it is very easy.
June 24th, 2009 at 11:35 PMBut I have been using this method from a long time and I have not come across to any such brainy spammers who are taking these efforts.
It was a really nice thought! Just wanna say thank you for the selective information you have diffused. Just continue writing this kind of post. I will be your loyal reader. Gives Thanks over again.
January 24th, 2010 at 10:46 PMThank u man … Really helpful…
July 10th, 2010 at 8:49 AM