Just be aware that it’s not guaranteed - I’ve had services remove everything after the ‘+something’ on my email address. Some will also not see that as a valid email address, depending on how they do their input validation.
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erev@lemmy.world 5 months agoFor anyone who wants to do this easily: afaik (ymmv) most mail systems will accept aliases to your account if you put a + after your email username. for example, if you’re foo@example.com, then foo+bar@example.com would still route to your inbox but you’d be able to see that it was sent to a different address than your own. i do this for any email i put into a website I don’t trust (which is most) and if you use the company name it’s a really easy way to see who sold your data
relaymoth@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 5 months ago
For a spammer it literally takes less than ten seconds to clean a list of one million addresses from “plus addresses”. Only amateur spammers use raw lists without any sanitization