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RE: Computer Question -- Spoofed e-mails

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Subject: RE: Computer Question -- Spoofed e-mails
From: eric@megageek.com
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 09:11:25 -0500
PJ writes... >Sometimes a secondary account can be used for stuff such as
this.  For >example
What I do is create a new account for each service I give my email to.
Like my account for ebay, would be something like "ebay1@domain.com"  My
bank is "bank1@domain.com."  This helps me track down most sources of spam
and stop them.  When I find out that a website sold my email address, I
just forward that address to their customer serive account and stop using
that website. So if I get email addressed to "enron@domain.com,"  I know
that enron sold the email address and I forward that address and stop using
enron. (enron is jsut an example name.)   This also makes phishing almost
impossible.  If I get an email to ebay1@domain.com, and it's talking about
my bank account, I know it's a phish mail. Of course this requires have
your own domain and own mailserver.  But it's a small price to pay to be
able to track and stop spam. Inch "We all know we're dying, And there's no
sign of a parachute." Tori Amos




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