Find Out Who is Giving your Gmail Address Away

By admin | Jan 18, 2007
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If you are wanting to use a gmail account to see if people are farming out your email address, then this little dittie can be for you. Remember, this is best done if you use a junk gmail account because you will receive junk email possibly. I found this on a forum and posted by PCBGuy:

“When you give your email address to a website, you hope that they don’t sell or trade your address to a bunch of spammers. Well if they do, here is a simple way to see what sites are responsible for what particular piece of email. This requires you have a Gmail account.

If your Gmail login name was  username at gmail.com and you went to samplesite.com to fill out a registration form, instead of just entering  username at gmail.com as your email, enter it as username+samplesitecom@gmail.com instead. When Gmail sees a “+” in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to username@gmail.com.

Now whats cool is if you search Gmail for username+samplesitecom, you will see all massages that were sent to that email address.

To see who is responsible for sending a specific message click the Show Details link and you will see the complete address. “

Source: Hedir Review.

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6 Comments so far
  1. Cameron January 19, 2007 9:15 am

    Handy to know.

  2. Sunny January 19, 2007 3:45 pm

    yeah it’s annoying getting jukmail but gmail does a god job filtering the spam

  3. Ashish Mohta January 20, 2007 6:20 am

    this is really cool.Its really irritating why people smap it.I dont see any use.

  4. Planeta Ubuntu » Introducing Posts of the Week January 21, 2007 5:28 pm

    [...] PaulTech blogged about a pretty cool method for discovering which websites are sharing your Gmail address. [...]

  5. Andy January 21, 2007 8:08 pm

    Thats a common trick but I’ve found quite a few badly coded sites that don’t allow + in the email address :-(

  6. Webby’s World » Introducing Posts of the Week January 22, 2007 12:14 pm

    [...] PaulTech blogged about a pretty cool method for discovering which websites are sharing your Gmail address. [...]

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