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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by laurent92 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:48PM (#24203460)
It’s a bit like in gmail, where you can add a + and it allows you to spot spam mail. So, if someone calls you John+firstjob, you know where they’ve known you.
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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by jabirali on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:44PM (#24205227)
I'm curious, does this still work? Since GMail is likely the largest email provider in the world, I would have expected spammers to simply filter out the `+.*` by now.
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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by culturestate on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:13PM (#24206182)
What advantage would spammers get from trying to hide the provenance of a bought/rented/stolen list? If it was a really profitable scam like crypto phishing, having the modifiers might even be an advantage because they could target the templates more effectively.
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Re:Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidenc... by jabirali on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @10:42AM (#24210862)
Well, if the ones who sell email addresses to spammers filter out the `+`, there’s a larger chance they can continue to do so without getting caught or exposed?
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