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I’ve actually caught out an organisation in this way who were illegally reselling their mailing lists to third parties.

If the company sells your email address to spammers, or hackers steal their database, you’ll know who to blame by the email address they’re sending to.

Why is this a clever idea? Well, there are a few reasons: So for example you might give the email address to Amazon, the email address to Twitter, and the email address to… that other website you have an account on.

Instead, give them a mutated form of your email address that will still work, but that identifies exactly who you gave it to. When you’re asked to give your email address to a company, don’t give them your email address. Often, you end up having to give your email address to companies that you don’t necessarily trust…

You can also insert as many full stops (.) as you like, anywhere in the first half of your email address, and they’ll still reach you, too. Just put a plus sign (+) after your name but before the and then type anything you like there, and the email will still reach you. You have a practically infinite number of GMail addresses. You have a GMail account, right? Or else Google for Domains? Suppose your email address is did you know that also means that you own: This technique’s about a decade old, but a lot of people still aren’t using it, and I can’t help but suspect that can only be because they didn’t know about it yet, so let’s revisit: