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Ask HN: How do you deal with email spam?
Say you had subscribed for some xyz.com and now they have started selling your email and you receive mail from some wxy.com?
I caught many such spam using google's easter egg. (myname+xyz@gmail.com)
Catching such people is a bit easy. But how to report them? And how to take control over them?
Plus how to send someone email with from myname+xyz@gmail.com? So that we can catch if someone whom we sent mail is spamming us.
- AH4oFVbPT4f8 11y agoGmail allows you to setup an alias to send mail out from a different from address. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en Reporting them is more difficult. If it's a known/legit company that is sending the spam like Target or Sears for example, usually you can forward the message with headers to abuse@domain.com. You can also look in the headers for a complaint address. Next you can look for who the provider is that the domain is using and send the complaint to them. If its a fly by night spammer, there isn't too much you can do.