Is your email box constantly filling up with unsolicited emails? Your email address has probably been sold and resold by unscrupulous companies. Gmail allows you to anticipate spam with personalized addresses.
Spam is still doing just as well, thank you for it! Today, even if the vast majority of email services such as Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo are quite successful in detecting and filtering unwanted emails that reach you, a good many of them continue to slip through the cracks of their nets. So your mailbox can quickly find itself filled with unsolicited mail – spam – from commercial companies you have never heard of or, at least, with whom you have never come into contact. . And, strangely, their proposals are close to your interests. Could someone be spying on your web activities and email exchanges? The answer is not that far from this supposition.
To register for a web service or open an account in an online store, one of the first pieces of information you are asked for is your email address. To this are generally added other data such as your first and last names, a postal address (for deliveries) and sometimes your telephone number. You provide all this valuable data with complete confidence in the belief that it will be useful in contacting you. Certainly, but since they have value, the company to which you deliver them does not hesitate to trade in them. The market for purchasing and reselling data files is indeed proving very successful. Your information can thus be recovered and resold to other companies who find there something to prospect for new customers. And this is how your contact details end up in the hands of companies unknown to you and your mailbox accumulates unsolicited mail.
However, if you use Gmail, Google’s electronic mail service, you benefit from a very practical way to not only identify the services and stores that resell or share your data but also to eliminate the spam that results from this practice. It consists of declining your Gmail address by creating personalized versions with a specific element. A foolproof method that does not disrupt the operation of your mailbox. And, the good news is, you can create as many custom addresses as you want.
How to create personalized Gmail addresses and avoid spam?
The method for creating personalized addresses in Gmail remains quite simple and does not require any specific manipulation in the settings of the messaging service. It simply consists of adding an indicator in the description of the address that you enter when registering with a web service or an online store. So, rather than entering [email protected]simply indicate [email protected] if you want to register on the Auchan brand website for example.
All emails sent to this address, starting with those from the site on which you register, will arrive like all other usual emails in your inbox. But if you receive mail from other companies at this address, it is because the site on which you registered has not hesitated to exchange or resell your data to third parties. If you wish, you can then create a rule to automatically send to the trash all emails received with this “trapped” address. And to contact the site or service that resold it to ask them to erase all the data concerning you as the law requires! You can thus create as many personalized addresses, all based on your normal address, in order to “track” as many sources as you wish, on the model [email protected].