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Thormjolnir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months agoOr, if you have Gmail and add a . Anywhere in your email, before the @ it’ll still send to you, and you can find the culprit that way
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Thormjolnir@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months agoOr, if you have Gmail and add a . Anywhere in your email, before the @ it’ll still send to you, and you can find the culprit that way
I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 10 months ago
Or put +website name after your username and before the @gmail.com to make it easier than remembering dot positions.
ares35@kbin.social 10 months ago
those tools are mainly for handling incoming mail. neither will stop the scammers and spammers from knowing your true email address, as it's still right there. an aggressive one will strip or change position of the '.' and strip or change the '+ codes' on every send.
the relay type service is better as it actually keeps your true email address behind that protective layer.
PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Additionally I’ve been on some super shit websites that fail to log in with +s in the email.