email junk. tracing source of sign up location?

unwashed potato! · 25 Oct 2016 at 17:17

every time i sign up for something for work, the end result seems to be we get signed up for a load of junk sites too. i'm forever auto unsubscribing but it's endless. I remember reading on here ages ago there was a method people were using to help find out which site they signed up to is selling the email address.

was something like add the website name and a dot to the beginning of a email address, but can't remember.

anyone know what it is?

Destination · 25 Oct 2016 at 17:25

Yeah that's it, use an entirely new email address for every single time you sign up to something.... then you'll know which company did the naughties.

marc2003 · 25 Oct 2016 at 17:41

Never unsubscribe from spam. All that does is prove the email address is real.

unwashed potato! · 25 Oct 2016 at 18:34

marc2003 said:
Never unsubscribe from spam. All that does is prove the email address is real.

surely the advice should be never unsubscribe from spam that clearly is from someone who's searching for real email addresses.

there's tones of real legit sites that also send spam. twitter for one.

Hikari Kisugi said:
Yeah that's it, use an entirely new email address for every single time you sign up to something.... then you'll know which company did the naughties.

this would take a lot of effort though. i'm not wanting to create a new email address for each site i sign up to. i just signed up to fiverr for instance and today got 3 new sites messaging me. i signed up to a van parts too yesterday. making a new email address for each just seems like a lot of time.

AHarvey · 25 Oct 2016 at 20:11

sign up with throw away email addresses (google it) and then wait, see if you get spam, if not, sign up work email.

Never heard of it before but one came through work today and googled the address to see where it came from.

Daaaavvveee · 25 Oct 2016 at 20:12

Fairly sure the answer is no said:
every time i sign up for something for work, the end result seems to be we get signed up for a load of junk sites too. i'm forever auto unsubscribing but it's endless. I remember reading on here ages ago there was a method people were using to help find out which site they signed up to is selling the email address.

was something like add the website name and a dot to the beginning of a email address, but can't remember.

anyone know what it is?

Something like (http://www.techverse.net/create-multiple-custom-email-address-one-gmail-account/) might help?

Then use the website name at the start.