I’ve used this method before too, like incomeaccess[at]mysite.com and so on.. then you see who’s putting ur stuff up for sale. . .
LadyH
PS, income access was off the top of my head, not meant to be an example of a site that ACTUALLY sells or abuses email addys.
@Engineer 131724 wrote:
I was doing something like this too, for a while. I had a “catch all” email feature set up so that “anything”[at]choicegambling.com would come through. That worked quite well, UNTIL….
One day I started receiving hundreds of emails to random email addresses [at]choicegambling.com. For example 3h8gh[at]choicegambling.com, r9jg9a[at]choicegambling.com. Of course, none of these email addresses truly existed, and if I created them ‘officially’ with the intention of blocking everything that came to them, I’d have to create hundreds of addresses. Not feasible.
So, unfortunately I had to put an end to the “catch all.” I had to change a bunch of my affiliate email addresses back to my primary email address, which meant I would no longer be able to see if they sold my address to anyone else. I did manually create some new accounts for a couple of programs that I don’t trust, and that I haven’t worked with in a long time — i.e. 888.com, Cpays, Casino Partners, and most other Playtech programs.