This is sort of like what celebrities do, by the way, when they “leak” different gossip to their friends, and then they sit back and watch to see which version of it gets leaked, in turn, to the tabloids. You can put little twists on this, to vary up the faux email addresses you leave, in an attempt to figure out who’s giving out your address.
If anything came to your Gmail account marked with that specific address in the “To:” field, for example, it would let you know the sender got your address from Instagram. Two, I chose “instagram” in the example email address above, because the ideal thing to do is to sort of “mark” these emails with the apps and services you want to flag for scrutiny. One, Gmail ignores anything after the plus sign in an email, while still delivering it to “johndoe” in this case. slotted in “instagram” after the plus sign, for two reasons.Which would turn this email into something like: Instead of inputting your email address as normal, add a plus symbol (+) as well as some kind of unique identifier after your name - but before the symbol. So that, when you start getting spam sent to this slightly-off email address, you’ll be able to pinpoint which company is handing out your data willy-nilly. The next time you have to leave your email with a company, such as when you buy a product and you get those nagging prompts that ask you to leave your email and create an account, what you’re going to do is type your email address in a slightly different way than normal. This won’t immediately put a stop to the spam that’s clogging up your Gmail inbox, but it’s a start - and you’ll still be able to take some targeted action afterwards. Having said all that, I recently learned a bit of a Gmail hack that will give you some insight into which companies are handing over your data, like your email address, to third parties that go on to start spamming you with messages.
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