Comment on It appenes that my email has gotten on the hands of some scammers with a botnet or something. What do I do?

MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Kekzkrieger@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You don’t even need a custom domain to do this. Google, Ms and many others support aliases with a plus (+) sign in the recipient adress.

  so if you got john@gmail.com you can freely create new aliases like john+ea@gmail.com, john+amazon@gmail.com and they will all land at john@gmail.com

  If your address gets leaked, you can just block emails to that recipient.

  I’ve done this for most of my accounts and it works great.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    lots of places catching on, won’t let you use + sign when you sign up

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  • stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Gmail labels are great but they’re not universal, and are easy to strip out.

    A lot of sites:

    • Don’t allow +'s in email addresses
    • May let your register but then not login
    • Are aware of labels and simply strip them out

    I have an email address I have only ever used with labels but still get spam to the non-labeled address. Spammers and email harvesters are very much aware of this trick, so it only works on legitimate sites.

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    • Kekzkrieger@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I havent had a single site not working with a plus

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        ever had a lobotomy? doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

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      • stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There are plenty of them, just wait!

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  • MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Did not exist when I started in 95 😑

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