LebGeeks

samer

Admin

Tracking spam with gmail

here's a tip by Kevin Gunn to help you track down which websites are using your e-mail and sharing it with thrid-parties.

Let’s say you need to sign up for a mailing list that interests you, but you’re afraid spammers might get your address. We’ll call the list “exoticflowers”. Sign up with the list using the address “johndoe+exoticflowers@gmail.com”. Email to that address will still come to your “johndoe@gmail.com” address even though the “To:” will include that “+exoticflowers” in it.

you could then create a filter to shuttle +exoticflowers email past the inbox to a specific label.

Parabola

Member

Re: Tracking spam with gmail

Cool tip.

Thanks for sharing it Samer :)

mahdoum

Member

Re: Tracking spam with gmail

nice but won't this mean if spammers get the email they will still spam you

rolf

Member

Re: Tracking spam with gmail

cool, thanks
yeah as mahdoum said, spammers still get the email so better not sign up at all.

samer

Admin

Re: Tracking spam with gmail

the idea is to track them down :) - you can blacklist the +spamtaghere.