Spotify and Facebook: Is that phishing?

Re:Spotify and Facebook: Is that phishing? by benmanns on Friday February 22, 2013 @02:58PM (#5266375)

You can also use Mailinator[0] and their many other domains for throwaway email addresses. In fact, you can point your MX records to mail.mailinator.com for a custom domain without running a VPS.[1]

[0] http://www.mailinator.com/ [1] http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-own-private-mail...

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Re:Spotify and Facebook: Is that phishing? by apapli on Saturday February 23, 2013 @06:25AM (#5269364)

I have a google apps for business account (a former free one before they started charging).

I just create lots of alias emails associated with a domain name I used to use and still own. Works like a charm and they are always accepted.

I hear mailinator email addresses don't always get accepted by some services (though I haven't experienced this myself to verify).

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Re:Spotify and Facebook: Is that phishing? by jiggy2011 on Friday February 22, 2013 @03:08PM (#5266448)

True, but those services are quite limited and not that secure in that anybody who knows the email address can login to your account.

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Re:Spotify and Facebook: Is that phishing? by ehamberg on Friday February 22, 2013 @05:42PM (#5267391)

Not necessarily. They also give you a “gibberish” address to the account. So if I use “foobar” as my mailbox on mailinator, they will list an address like M8R-wk43th@mailinator too, that does not let people log in.

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