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jzse on March 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why was my email leaked?

Email standard lets you use a random string in the adress if you type + after your "name".. For examble you have adress hehe.haha@gmail.com, and now you can give dropbox hehe.haha+dropbox@gmail.com and still get the mails that dropbox sends to the same hehe.haha@gmail.com box while "send to" still remains hehe.haha+dropbox@gmail.com.

This is the best way (that I know) to find out where your adress was leaked.

efdee on March 1, 2013 [–]

Since it's a standard, it's worthless. Any spammer worth his salt would remove everything after the '+' sign from the email address.

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