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Combating spam with your Gmail ID
Did you know that Gmail doesn’t recognize dots (.) as characters within a username ? This means th1nk.dj[at]gmail.com is the same as th1nkdj[at]gmail.com for Gmail servers. OK, Great .. Now how’s that useful for me ?
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We signup for tons of services a day, right from that online news subscription to that no-so-trusted site which said it needed your email ID to send the download link you just requested. Hmm.. what to do ?
Well, for the not-so-trusted sites, just use an email alias with a pre positioned DOT. 
Take this example. I have to give my email ID [th1nk.dj[at]gmail.com] to blogdirectories.com. But I suspect them on giving the email IDs to 3rd party services. So, I give my email ID as th1nkd.j[at]gmail.com and I get the confirmation link.
Now, I goto Gmail > Settings > Filter and create a filter for all mails with TO: containing “th1nkd.j[at]gmail.com” to go to the trash OR apply a label. That way, I can find out which site gave out my email ID to the gazillion spammers out there.
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You you could make changes to the webpage title Prevent spam on your Gmail email account to something more generic for your blog post you write. I liked the the writing nevertheless.
personal and business computers doesn't need to have similar characteristics
You can't hack gmail. That is b.s. My computer guy said it isn't possible. ticketslayer@gmail.com LOL
You are a very smart person!
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I just tried myself. It's really good.
Thanks for Sharing.
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unfortunately this does not work to stop spam, nor does the +keyword trick mentioned in the comments… the reason it doesn’t work is simple – all the information a person needs to extract the true gmail address is available in these aliases you’re creating… it’s trivial to reverse the obfuscation – in fact it’s trivial for a program to reverse the obfuscation, and since the tricks are so well known and gmail is so popular it’s virtually guaranteed that the email harvesters have already automated this task…
[...] In the To field type hey.moe@gmail.com, click the “Next Step” button and check “Delete It” or any of the other options (see below). Now, click the “Create Filter” button to activate the filter. [Via Blogulate] [...]
[...] In order to setup a Gmail Filter, under the Settings options, select the Filter tab and click on “Create a new filter”. In the To field type security.hacks@gmail.com, click the “Next Step” button and check “Delete It”. Now, click the “Create Filter” button to activate the filter. [Via Blogulate] [...]
wow.. nice one! cheers
You can also try address+spam@gmail.com. Everything after the plus-sign is ignored, and you can use it to filter stuff too.
@ Ganesh
No dude ! Since gmail doesnt count the (.) , bot.hack, b.o.t.hack, bothack are all ACTUALLY “bothack”, which is unique. No one else can make that ID with (.) in b/w ..
Rest assured !
Cheers
Hmm .. yeah ! But then you'll have to log in and out of the accounts..
nice nice!
i should have chosen a good username before. so if i create gmailcom@gmail.com it could also be gmail.com@gmail.com? cool!
Wouldn't it just be easier to make a second (FREE, thanks to Gmail) address such as djsjunkmail@gmail.com? Then you could use that as the address to put on websites, etc.
Now that is scary. What if someone had an id say bot.hack@gmail.com.
He would be getting my emails too. Have you actually tried this out ?? I can understand the spam folder. But why dont you get two such ids and check it out?