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Took my Dodge vehicle in for service. They wanted my email address "so they can get in touch with me if I don't answer the phone." I gave it to them.
It took less than half a day for the first spam mail to hit my inbox.
"Lol no"
Then walk out.
DuckDuckGo offers a nice relay service; you get a duck.com email address that mails through to your regular email, but it strips out all the trackers and other bullshit. It's good for situations like that.
Mozilla has one too. And Fastmail. You can invent a different email address for every site, then block the ones that get spammed.
Use addy.io and support an open source dev!
Pro-tip: Fastmail integrates with 1Password to generate random emails and save them.
https://support.1password.com/fastmail/
https://www.fastmail.com/blog/masked-email-from-fastmail-and-1password-protects-your-identity-online/
Also with bitwarden!
.........do you not have a fake email you can log into?
I bet someone has "anyoneemailingmeisacunt@gmail.com"
Actually tried it, seems like gmail doesnt like swear words