Track Who Abused Your Email - A Trick with Gmail
I found this niche trick from a friend of mine. The original post is here, credits to PCBguy!
Where all those spams came from? Spammers of course. But the question is, where those spammers get your email address? It’s normal to give out your email address when you register at a particular website.
Some of them want to make money from your email address (and others) in their database by selling it to those spammers out there.
Now, you can track them, but requires you to have a Gmail email. OK, this is the trick:
If your Gmail address is yourusername@gmail.com and you went to anywebsite.com to fill out a registration form.
Instead of just entering yourusername@gmail.com as your email, enter it as username+anywebsitecom@gmail.com. When Gmail sees a “+” in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to yourusername@gmail.com.
Now, this is the interesting part. If you search Gmail for yourusername+anywebsitecom, you will see all massages that were sent to that email address.
To see who is responsible for sending a specific message click the “Show Details” link and you will see the complete address. Gotcha!
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