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> Find the traitor: who sold our emails to spammers username+trapkeyword@gmail.com
by zalew 14y ago
> Find the traitor: who sold our emails to spammers
username+trapkeyword@gmail.com
- dduck 14y agoPersonally I would run a grep to find if someone has already been doing that. This is also difficult to use in forgotten password forms.
- bambax 14y agoYes, except that many websites (most?) erroneously forbid using a "+" sign in an email address. This drives me nuts but there's not much you can do. Sometimes I try to disable client-side validation, only to find that the check is performed again on the server. It would be interesting to build a webmail service that would allow this same functionality with another character, maybe an underscore (of course that would mean that addresses could not contain underscores). The other solution is to use Mailinator; but all email sent to it is public so it's less than ideal.
- cstuder 14y agoYou know about the Mailinator second email address to prevent exactly this problem? (http://mailinator.blogspot.ch/2008/03/introducing-alternate-inbox-names.html http://mailinator.blogspot.ch/2008/03/introducing-alternate-...)
- anonymouz 14y agoSpamgourmet (http://www.spamgourmet.com http://www.spamgourmet.com) is a service that allows you to do something like this, and more.
- jrmg 14y agoSneakemail.com has been around for years, and basically works exactly as described in the article.
- anonymoushn 14y agoMost services don't seem to think that's a valid address.
- sspiff 14y agoIt's easy to just remove that +... part at the spammers side - I mean, it's the most common trick in the book, a spammer would have to be stupid not to handle that. A great service to simplify and pinpoint spam sellers is http://leemail.com/ http://leemail.com/ - I've been using it for a while and it's working great.
- icebraining 14y agos/\+.*@/@/