how do people deal with the endless #email #spam and scam?
do you create a new email?
Discussion
I use SimpleLogin
I used to change email addresses about as often as I changed the oil in my car.
Now I’ve done a slightly better job at managing it by using catch-all addresses. You can setup a custom domain, and then when you sign up for any random service you type in whatever you want ahead of your domain and it goes to your inbox still.
Example:
• Say I buy the domain guy.com and setup my email with it.
• My main email is guy@guy.com
• When I sign up with WSJ to read one of their stupid article for free, I give them the email WSJ@guy.com
• Their email still goes to my inbox, but I set it so that everything NOT going to guy@guy.com is treated as spam.
• If I ever want to block WSJ crap, I just block WSJ@guy.com
• If I ever have a flood of emails from tons of services I never signed up for, I know where there leak is from, because they all came in on WSJ@guy.com
It’s a useful strategy. It’s still a mess after like 5 years. Email just has that quality. But it’s much better to manage this way.
Gmail has a form of this with the + after your user and before the @gmail.com. Eg: user+wsj@gmail.com. But anti-sovereignty
Guy, consider simplelogins method of free aliases , back to the domains you own.
It's now owned/managed by proton, but still applicable to your example, Because you can REPLY via the alias!!
Use spam filters, unsubscribe from unwanted emails, create filters, avoid clicking suspicious links, be cautious with sharing your email, update passwords regularly, and report scams.
I use online temporary emails whenever I can. I also create email alias for each normal service like uber and others where you cannot use a temp. If I get spam in one of those alias I one which service was. I never used but https://simplelogin.io/ seems nice for this.
Not the best, but very easy if you have an iPhone https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210425
Use: MySudo
Pretty sweet for signing up for things you don't want to give your personal email and phone for.
I use aliases, which are like the plus addressing mentioned by others. Many email addresses, but they all end up going to the same inbox. When one gets too spammy, I update the one service that should have had that email address to use a new alias and then kill off the old one.
Catch alls can be good, but then you get junk to email addresses that you've never attempted to use just because people are guessing what might be a legit email address. I prefer those to bounce so the spammer knows to give up. And even if they don't, I never see their junk that's to some bogus account.
But at the end of the day, spammers and scammers are still a problem. They can be reduced with technology, but the malcontents sill find you eventually when services you use and people you email get compromised.
use alias in forms, or alias service like simplelogin
I just have a few junk email addresses and use the unsubscribe option on my real email address. Works for me
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