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How to find out which sites sold spammers your address

Posted on | April 4, 2008 | No Comments

Once of my coworkers shared this link today on a Gmail feature that allow you to track which site sold your email address. The idea being that if it violates their privacy policy you can sure them. - I have tried something similar in which I create an email address with that sites name so somethingawful@davehamel.com and then just forward all the email from that one to my real address.  Unfortunately, I didn’t think of it soon enough or do it regularly enough to stop getting 50 pieces of spam a day.  Maybe I will start posting the good ones… 

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