How to tell if a sponsor has sold your email address to spammers.

**Deputy Chief Command** · 02-10-2007, 07:40 AM

some good tips here!

I usually just use catch all on one of my own domains : guess this is the same principal

**Contra** · 02-10-2007, 07:53 AM

I'm doing the same thing with my own domian also. thanks though

**cranki** · 02-10-2007, 08:02 AM

someone tried this a while ago with stunning results... don't find the thread nomore, maybe someone has the link ready?!

**Agent 488** · 02-10-2007, 08:05 AM

read their tos - i'm sure you sign your life away somewhere in there .... or at least your email.

**RawAlex** · 02-10-2007, 08:06 AM

I got a better tip for you.

you will get spam.

thank you.

**fetishblog** · 02-10-2007, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by RawAlex

I got a better tip for you.

you will get spam.

thank you.

That's brilliant.

**Adultnet** · 02-10-2007, 11:06 AM

really nice tip with gmail

**Tempest** · 02-10-2007, 11:18 AM

Originally posted by fetishblog

I know they do it, you know they do it, and they know they do it, but how can you prove it?

This works with gmail.com at least, so create an email address, we'll use [email protected] as an example. Now when you sign-up with a new sponsor, you give them [email protected]. You will still get the email from gmail because gmail ignores anything to the right of the +(just like [email protected] and [email protected] are the same addresses because gmail ignores the . in the part of the address before the @).

Now you can tell WHO is a dirty sponsor and who is selling your email address to spammers when you start receiving spam at [email protected].

I'm afraid that having unique email addresses WON'T confirm that the sponsor is selling your email addresses. The server could be hacked. There could be security holes with the affiliate software they're using (I strongly suspect a couple in particular have this problem), and those email adresses are "shared" with other companies, i.e. the processors. I'd suggest you look for similarities in those things. Oh.. and sign up to some paysites and note who the processor is.. once you've got all that spam coming in on all those different emails, you may see a pattern...

**96ukssob** · 02-10-2007, 11:19 AM

great tip, i use that all the time. I actually found out that this guy i was doing work for sold my info using this.

How to tell if a sponsor has sold your email address to spammers.

How to tell if a sponsor has sold your email address to spammers.

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