@[email protected] to [email protected] • 10 months agoIdiotic spammers trying to extort me, claiming they hacked my webcam and got video of me jerking off, so I have to pay them on bitcoin.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1182arrow-down115file-text
arrow-up1167arrow-down1imageIdiotic spammers trying to extort me, claiming they hacked my webcam and got video of me jerking off, so I have to pay them on bitcoin.lemmy.ml@[email protected] to [email protected] • 10 months agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•10 months agoInvest some time in transferring to a new email address but also an email alias service. That way you never give out your new email address to anyone and give each site/service you use its own alias.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•10 months agoOften a low-effort alternative to this is to use the “plus addressing” trick: [email protected] The example above routes to [email protected], but you can track and filter on the extra tag portion. Granted, it doesn’t have universal support, but it’s somewhat widespread at least.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-210 months agoThis works but has a number of downsides. Eg hackers just have to remove the +portion to have your email address. You also can’t send emails out via any of those addresses. https://simplelogin.io/blog/email-alias-vs-plus-sign/
Invest some time in transferring to a new email address but also an email alias service. That way you never give out your new email address to anyone and give each site/service you use its own alias.
Often a low-effort alternative to this is to use the “plus addressing” trick: [email protected]
The example above routes to [email protected], but you can track and filter on the extra tag portion.
Granted, it doesn’t have universal support, but it’s somewhat widespread at least.
This works but has a number of downsides.
Eg hackers just have to remove the +portion to have your email address. You also can’t send emails out via any of those addresses.
https://simplelogin.io/blog/email-alias-vs-plus-sign/