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Did you know Gmail can be used to check which company sold you out?

By Charles On September 5, 2007 Under Software

I am referring to your own email which you have signed up with some Internet service. For example, if you have recently sent your email to a website in return for an ebook, you might want to know if this website has sold his database (your email and many others) to another company who used it to spam the targeted traffic! (which is you!) It can be a terrible experience to get caught up by a spammer where you simply have no chance to stop them as they used different identities to spread their advertising word! They don’t care if you will just delete it or not… Because somebody will simply respond!

Introducing to the ability of Gmail to check the betrayer!
This betrayer has sold your email to another company! You might not be able to catch the company who spammed you… But you can catch the betrayer! How about that? It’s so much better… Of course there’s also a loophole around… Check out this site to see how Gmail finds out who spams you… Though according to that blogger, this feature has already been there for quite a while… It is worthed to mention it since there are so many websites out there now wanting your email to give you a gift or something…

Have you read his blog already? Quite a smart way of checking the email, right?
Ok let me modify what he’s saying in that blog, and add in something to make a better filter…

When you have a gmail filtering name, simply do a permanent forward your actual email to that email…

charles@charleslau.com -> charles+website@gmail.com
news@charleslau.com -> charles+news@gmail.com

So, you will know which email is used for which web subscription… And that should keep you tracking…






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15 comments - add yours
keeyit

September 5, 2007

wah great ideas on that… STOP SPAM

Charles

September 5, 2007

Yup! They are such a pest! It’s like vandalizing the whole place with their advertisements in hope of someone catching a glimpse of them!

Antique Ring

April 17, 2009

I usually do not comment on blog posts but I found this quite interesting, so here goes. Thanks! Regards, P.

Deann Vanburen

April 27, 2009

My God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insight at the end there, not leave it with we leave it to you to decide.

Charles

April 27, 2009

Yeah Kee yit… I hate spams!

Charles

April 27, 2009

Thanks Antique Ring. It’s really nice to hear people who appreciates. Thanks to you too! :)

Charles

April 27, 2009

I’m sorry about it Deann. This is a response blog post to the blogger who teaches you how to do it.
Here it is
http://www.dennisplucinik.com/blog/2007/09/03/use-gmail-to-find-out-whos-spamming-you/

Misko Loans

May 7, 2009

VRy interesting to read it :P :D

Miguel

May 13, 2009

good good

Chakrapanye

May 14, 2009

There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.

Yagnaroopaya

May 14, 2009

Of course, what a great site and informative posts, I will add backlink – bookmark this site? Regards, Reader.

techhours

May 14, 2009

I wish getting over a broken heart can be so easy as following a few steps.. but its not

Haraye

May 18, 2009

There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.

Wayne

May 21, 2009

Hi there, I found your blog via Google while searching for first aid for a heart attack and your post looks very interesting for me.

Craigslist Proxy

May 21, 2009

I don’t normally post, but this jogged my memory of the recent news with the CEO of Craigslist demanding for an apology from the South Carolina attorney general. Always something happening with CL and things in the news.