Avoid Spam Create Disposable Email Addresses With Gmail

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No matter how hard your email service tries, spam always gets through.  Sometimes we have to register with services that then end up becoming spammers.  If you are a Gmail user then you can avoid this by using ‘disposable email addresses’.  Here’s how:

(i) Gmail uses plus-addressing, which lets you put a plus sign after your address and then anything after the plus sing, with the email still arriving at the right place.

(ii) If your address is say onetipaday@gmail.com, then you can also use onetipaday+junk@gmail.com as one address or onetipaday+spammer@gmail.com as another address.  Basically you have an unlimited number of e-mail addresses you can use.

(iii) Then if any emails come into your inbox addressed to any of your disposable addresses then setup a filter to either archive or trash the offending message, without it cluttering up your inbox.

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