Anonymous Email accounts and disposable emails

[magdalena012]

I was browsing the web and found a lot of articles about email tracking, spam and other stuff that track you and your email content.

How do you protectect yourself against all this ?

I am reading that using disposable emails is good example to prevent spam in your inbox.

 

[Fardringle]

To cut down on spam, don't sign up for every forum/mailing list/porn site in the world using your primary email address.

As far as tracking, the only people that have my primary email address have permission to track me any way they want to because they are family and friends.

 

[John Connor]

I use multiple E-mail accounts. Basically I have one E-mail address for the bank, Amazon, ebay, etc. And one E-mail address for crap sign ups.

If you use Thunderbird check out the addons; Dr.Web Anti virus link checker and abusix spam reporter.

abusix reports the E-mail as blacklisted I guess. Ever since I got some spam which NEVER happens with my bank E-mail address I used abusix and the spam eventually stopped.

Not sure how I could have gotten the spam. Perhaps someone's contact list was hacked in their E-mail client, whatever, harvested the E-mails and sent spam to them all.

 

[corkyg]

I never get spam. I see all email on the POP servers and use MailWasher Pro to delete everything I do not specifically want. It can even be set to bounce mail back to sender.

 

[Elixer]

I never get spam. I see all email on the POP servers and use MailWasher Pro to delete everything I do not specifically want. It can even be set to bounce mail back to sender.

The problem with bouncing is, that 99 out of 100 times, the bounce address isn't legit, and is a weak way to DDoS a mail server if everyone did that...

I also have 1 e-mail address that is very random string, and I got spam on that one. I asked my bank, and they wouldn't admit of selling the e-mail address, but, I am pretty sure that is the only way this one could have been discovered.
Darn you Chase!