Comments on: Phishers get personal

Spammers and online fraudsters are exploiting Web site features to learn more about their victims and better hone their attacks.

[hadaso]

Never use the same email address twice

Never use the same email address for registering in different places. Or at least: use a dedicated address with services such as your bank or other financial businesses you work with. The recipient address is the only part of an email message that must be real for the message to reach you (the envelope-to address. Not the one in the message headers. It's the same as with snail mail: the address on the envelope must be correct if the mail is to reach you).

Look for "disposable e-mail address" services such as sneakemail.com or spamgourmet.com (there are several others. These are the two I use). The name "disposable" is misleading. This is actually the kind of address you want to give to your bank so that you know that only your bank can send to that address, and your bank doesn't send to any other address. Then you would know for sure when an email that claims to bwe from your bank is really from your bank.. There are several other ways to benefit from using multiple addresses, and the best known use is to reduce the damage spammers can do to you. It's easier to replace an address given to a few people than to replace an address you gave to everybody who ever needed to send you something. And addresses that are used a lot eventually need to be replaced when they get too much spam....

[George Cole]

replace an address

http://www.analogstereo.com/buick_skylark_owners_manual.htm

[hadaso]

Never use the same email address twice

Never use the same email address for registering in different places. Or at least: use a dedicated address with services such as your bank or other financial businesses you work with. The recipient address is the only part of an email message that must be real for the message to reach you (the envelope-to address. Not the one in the message headers. It's the same as with snail mail: the address on the envelope must be correct if the mail is to reach you).

Look for "disposable e-mail address" services such as sneakemail.com or spamgourmet.com (there are several others. These are the two I use). The name "disposable" is misleading. This is actually the kind of address you want to give to your bank so that you know that only your bank can send to that address, and your bank doesn't send to any other address. Then you would know for sure when an email that claims to bwe from your bank is really from your bank.. There are several other ways to benefit from using multiple addresses, and the best known use is to reduce the damage spammers can do to you. It's easier to replace an address given to a few people than to replace an address you gave to everybody who ever needed to send you something. And addresses that are used a lot eventually need to be replaced when they get too much spam....

[George Cole]

replace an address

http://www.analogstereo.com/buick_skylark_owners_manual.htm