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I do the same thing… I typically have an email for each account I sign up for (forum, affy program, casino, blog, etc…)
It’s easy to find out who is spamming from that.
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.
I switched to a gif image for my email address and this cut spam down considerably. Plus I always use the same email address unrelated to my sites when I join programs, add links, join forums if I can.
A couple of months ago I received an email from marketing for an affiliate program that I never joined. I do remember checking out their site a while back. The funny thing is the email had my full name and mentioned my states pro football team. (My domain is registered as private.)
I RE’d and asked how they got my personal info as I’m not in their program and they just spun it saying I may have signed up for more information which I clearly didn’t.
Cheers,
SlotplayerI’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.
catchall was great until the spammers realized that most hosting providers had it enabled by default, and than the great spam flood began.
I have noticed a recent trend, by some affiliate companies, to use remailing services to get by blocked addresses. Shady MoFo’s
As far as posting contact addresses on a website, I’ve always used contact forms. If you choose this route, just make sure the email address is in a seperate included file and not in the hidden form variable…spammers will never have access to your email address….until they hack your server :sarcasm:
