Everyone of us gets bombarded by spam messages in our inbox and while email service providers are trying 24/7 improving the spam protection, there is some measure which we must take to make it work better against spam.
One such measure is to have disposable email address. Now the method I follow is very simple to implement and it does not require you to be a tech geek to implement :)
Here are the steps (and for the record lets say my email address is xyz@gmail.com):
- Whenever you signup for any web services (for example take example.com) never give away your actual email address to them.
- What you should do is give them your email address as xyz+example@gmail.com.
- Gmail will always strip off the +example part and will send the mails from example.com to xyz@gmail.com !!!
- So whenever you see that there is a rise in spam with xyz+example@gmail.com, setup a filter which sends all such mails directly to trash/bin folder.
Though I don’t know what is the maximum number of such disposable Gmail address one can set and use but as of now I have not seen any issues with it.
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