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How To Stop People Harvesting Your Email Address
Or… How to stop giving people your email addresses so that they can spam you — and probably sell your email address on.
Disposable Emails
Receiving electronic stuff for ‘FREE’ is a devil’s bargain, sure you get something out of it — a PDF, a document, a spreadsheet, but all you have to do is give them a tiny little piece of information….
Your email address.
Whilst email addresses can be changed easily, they fast become an almost unique identifier — nobody wants to change their email address — too many friends and family know it.
Why Disposable Email Addresses
Disposable email are anonymous email accounts, meaning that you can sign up for one without giving out any of your personal details like your name, phone number, home address, etc.
If you are signing up for a account that will ony be temporary and that you are sure that you will not need in the future.
However, if you’re trying out a service or planning on using a trial version of something, then a temporary email account will get you the email you need to complete the initial sign up process, and then you can forget about it completely.
You can use this fake email address if:
- you don’t want to give out your real one,
- you want to avoid spam,
- sign up for something quickly,
- correspond with someone temporarily,
- steer clear from data breaches against your primary account,
- etc.
Here is a list
The criteria:
- No signup or login
- It just works
- Easy to use
- Email address and inbox are on the front page
