In a world where spam literally has a carbon footprint of 3.1 million cars, I too would be cautious about giving out my email address. But the offers are so great that we will inevitably hand over our details. As a result you may get what they are advertising or you may get emails from 20 different companies starting with:

“Hi Tim,

We understand you are interested in internet marketing.

You are just going to love the deal we can offer you today…”

This is usually followed by an explanation of either a reasonably useless deal or else a deal so good that if it really existed the internet would be forever changed. Either way you end up wishing you hadn’t given your email at all.

They are con-artists who make money by over promising to get your email address and then selling it to spammers. Then the spammers work a numbers game where they know if they send out 1 million emails that they will get a .01% conversion rate and that’s 100 sales.

So how do we fight back?

Fake addresses.

How to Sign Up for a secondary email address:

1) Make sure you are signed out of google

2) Go to mail.google.com

3) Then Register a new account.

Voila -> The power is back in your hands.

Now you can sign up to as many weirdo phony weirdo sites as you like.

How To Use Your New Fake Email Address

Assign a fake user name to your fake address.

Use your fake email address to sign up to the dodgy site. Then log into the account and get the activation code.

Once a week check the email for information you find useful or relevant. If you find you are registered to a good newsletter then sign your real account up as well. This is where the fake user name is handy, you can now sign up  your real account with your real user name and your away.

Hope you enjoy your new freedom. Go and download all those ebooks from those sites you were to afraid to give your emails to!

Do It Right

Remember, the idea is to fight spammers and not hurt legitimate offers. If you don’t check your spam inbox on a regular basis and sign up to the legitimate newsletters then you are just stealing the ebook they sent you and in the long run there will be less quality content on offer for just your email.

Wow, just doing some research after writing this article. 80%-95% of emails sent are spam! Check it out Softscan Security Labs Barracuda Networks That’s unbelievable!

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