Comment on How are scammers getting my email address?
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 day agoI’ve used this many times before. But this is so well known I wonder, why wouldn’t spammers/scammers just remove the “+” and trailing characters before “@“?
Comment on How are scammers getting my email address?
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 day agoI’ve used this many times before. But this is so well known I wonder, why wouldn’t spammers/scammers just remove the “+” and trailing characters before “@“?
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
True. A more reliable way to achieve this is to buy a domain and use addresses in the form websitename@your.domain.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah that also usually comes up in these types of discussions. Even for technical people, that approach can be a pain to manage.