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Gmail has aliases that have a + in them, e.g. foo@gmail.com -> foo+bar@gmail.com. I use them for subscriptions: foo+substack@gmail.com, etc.
by ryoshu 1y ago
Gmail has aliases that have a + in them, e.g. foo@gmail.com -> foo+bar@gmail.com. I use them for subscriptions: foo+substack@gmail.com, etc.
- Rygian 1y agoSo if you provide address+suffix@gmail.com, the spammers know that address@gmail.com is a legit address.
- danaris 1y agoYes, but only if they're bothering to do that level of checking. I would guess that that's pretty rare, as not many people know about this trick.
- andrewinardeer 1y agoI thought this was commonly known, particularly in the mass mailing marketing industry.
- bitmasher9 1y agoThis type of pattern is very easy to scrub if you had a list of email addresses. I have an anecdotal evidence inside my own inbox that this behavior is happening. You aren’t buying security from anything but the lazy and ignorant spammers.
- AznHisoka 1y agoAgreed. This tactic is so overused that spammers have caught on for quite awhile