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I received an offer to sign up for an alternative email address via my VPN provider, SurfShark. Alternative email addresses are "fake" email addresses that you would use to hide your real ID. So, for example, you are signing up for a website and you don't want to use your real name and email address, you would use this alternative email address instead. Instead of using your real name and email address, i.e. John Smith and johnsmith@gmail.com you would create a fake name and email, i.e. Johnny Smithton and johnnysmithton@faux.com. Then, after signing up on a website using your fake name if you receive emails sent to johnnysmithton@faux.com you can decide which one of them are worth forwarding to your real email address.
You could potentially avoid a lot of spam and phishing attempts with this sort of a system.
Here's a video explainer:
I can see a lot of advantages to using this service but also some disadvantages. Anybody using something like this and want to share your experiences?
You could potentially avoid a lot of spam and phishing attempts with this sort of a system.
Here's a video explainer:
I can see a lot of advantages to using this service but also some disadvantages. Anybody using something like this and want to share your experiences?