Spam control: Disposable email addresses with EndJunk.com

Here's a tip for controlling spam:

When you sign up for something online, like a newsletter or to make a purchase, you have to give out an email address. With this comes the risk of your address being harvested and used to send you spam.

Now there's a neat way of protecting yourself from this.

Imagine if you could use a separate email address for each and every service you sign up for. If you get spammed you will know from the address it is sent to who has let your address out and you can simply cut off the problem address. Say you sign up for a blog reminder service. You use the address you@something.com. By magic whatever I send to that address gets redirected to your real address. If I subsequently sell that email address to a Russian mail-order bride site, you will know exactly who did it when you start getting their junk. You can then kill off that address and the junk will stop.

Today I received a sign-up from a disposable email address, which got me thinking about it. So I got my friend Google to find me a few free services that do just this. I picked a couple to test and settled on EndJunk. What attracted me to that one is that once signed up, I can think up a new address on the fly as I am filling in an online form, and EndJunk will simply intercept whatever comes to that address and forward it to your real address. I suggest you test a few to see which one will work best for you.

Do note that if you reply to something that comes in through such a redirection service, your real email address will be exposed. The best policy is to never reply to spam.

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