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arrow-up1166arrow-down1imageIdiotic spammers trying to extort me, claiming they hacked my webcam and got video of me jerking off, so I have to pay them on bitcoin.lemmy.mlvis4valentine@lemmy.ml to Facepalm@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square53fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSwarfegalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 months agoInvest some time in transferring to a new email address but also an email alias service. That way you never give out your new email address to anyone and give each site/service you use its own alias.
minus-squareDreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoOften a low-effort alternative to this is to use the “plus addressing” trick: username+whateveryoulike@domain.tld The example above routes to username@domain.tld, but you can track and filter on the extra tag portion. Granted, it doesn’t have universal support, but it’s somewhat widespread at least.
minus-squareSwarfegalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-27 months agoThis works but has a number of downsides. Eg hackers just have to remove the +portion to have your email address. You also can’t send emails out via any of those addresses. https://simplelogin.io/blog/email-alias-vs-plus-sign/
Invest some time in transferring to a new email address but also an email alias service. That way you never give out your new email address to anyone and give each site/service you use its own alias.
Often a low-effort alternative to this is to use the “plus addressing” trick: username+whateveryoulike@domain.tld
The example above routes to username@domain.tld, but you can track and filter on the extra tag portion.
Granted, it doesn’t have universal support, but it’s somewhat widespread at least.
This works but has a number of downsides.
Eg hackers just have to remove the +portion to have your email address. You also can’t send emails out via any of those addresses.
https://simplelogin.io/blog/email-alias-vs-plus-sign/