DONT EVER SUBSCRIBE TO BIG LOTS
- Thread starter GregV814
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PeoplesElbow
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There is a reason I have an email just for spam. If you use GMail just create its own mailbox and automatically send it there.
Try getting off of the Nero mailing list after registering a product.
Clem72
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You can also customize your gmail address so you know who leaked your email to the spam bots.
Like CVS, you could give them yourname+CVS@gmail.com, then if you start getting spam that is sent to this e-mail address you know it's their fault. You can also block or send all e-mails with CVS in the "to" block to your spam folder and no need to unsubscribe.
PeoplesElbow
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Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
Just looked into that a bit, didn't realize the gmail name could be tweaked. But since it's a known trick, could the sender run a script on all email addresses and just wipe out anything between the "+" sign and the "@", and bypass your efforts? Would they even bother to do that?
Clem72
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Your name is Pam?
Clem72
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How about a more advanced trick. Slightly harder to setup, easier to use from then on.
You can go to afraid.org and register for a subdomain on any of thousands of shared domains. Lets say the domain is named mooo.com (an actual free domain on this site). So you can register yourname.mooo.com. Then you can select cname forwarding to yourname@gmail.com.
Then you can use literally ANY e-mail that ends in yourname.mooo.com and it will go to yourname@gmail.com. So for our CVS example you could provide them CVS@yourname.mooo.com and it would go to your gmail inbox. Or ShhhNotAFakeEmailMadeSpecificallyForCVS@yourname.moo.com.
No way for the spam senders to intelligently filer this one except for them to remove every public domain on afraid.org. Course you could fix that for $10 a year by registering your own domain and doing the exact same thing.
I have used auditme@irs.gov many times until they started verifying the addresses
