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I had one e-mail account that I used to register at many websites. This account started to receive several spam emails that I would classify as:
Blatantly spam: those are nicely filtered by gmail, but I have OCD and hate to see the notification sign that I've received spam, so I have to click and delete all messages.
Advertising: some known companies (that I've never bought from or registered to) knows my e-mail (don't know how) and start to send me ads emails. I can unsubscribe, but I hate to do so since I've never subscribed to them.
To reduce the ammount of spam, I've created another email account. So, how can I register to websites and reduce the risk of my email address to be shared through ads companies? Is there any e-mail filtering for this? Or using my Facebook account can help in any way?
I know that I could continue to use the old e-mail address to register to websites and concentrate there all the junk, but that's not a optimal solution since I will continue to receive spam and need to handle it from time to time.
It sounds like filters will work good in your situation. You can create filters to automatically delete an email from a certain address. This will make your spam go unnoticed and help keep your inbox clean. The next thing to do is quit registering your email with most websites. Like others said, use a disposable address or make a junk account that you don't care about and never check. – DrZoo – 2015-11-02T16:04:08.687
2Even if you never tell anyone about an email address that exists, that email address, can still receive spam. So the best solution to spam is to simply filter it. – Ramhound – 2015-11-02T16:52:58.723
@Ramhound, good catch. If the user has a common name and uses an email like johnsmith@gmail.com, he will receive lots os spam because an email like that is easy to guess that it exist. However, johnsmith14102@gmail.com is unlikely to exist so it should not receive random spam. – Zanon – 2015-11-02T17:56:10.023
2@Zanon - Except spam is cheap it is basically free to send an email. It is trivial to send spam to every combination of
johnsmith@gmail.com
tojohnsmith14102@gmail.com
. If somebody actually receives a single spam email, and clicks on it, it pays for the billion emails that were never received. – Ramhound – 2015-11-02T18:01:25.453