I can’t stress this enough. The tool that allowed me to be able to make the heart of today’s episode is 33Mail.
Even though you always find a recommendation for them in my footers, please: use them. It’s the email anonymizer tool that I use when subscribing to anything. ONLY use email addresses you create via 33mail, not your own “normal” email, to help track, prevent, and then block SPAM.
Here’s how:
Sign up for 33Mail using my affiliate link (thanks for that, BTW)
Create a username/email suffix. For example: SeahawksWin
Your new user name will now appear in ANY new email address that you create using 33mail: @SeahawksWin.33mail.com
Now, whenever you sign up for a service - like NordVPN for example, another service I can’t live without - use a 33mail email address and add the alias “NordVPN” to the beginning. Thus your new email address will be: NordVPN@SeahawksWin.33mail.com
This is, obviously, a new way to think about email.
Before, you RECEIVED one email address from companies like Google or Comcast or Yahoo. You then used that email for, well: everything.
Now, YOU, not those companies create your own new email addresses whenever you need them. Create and use as many as you like.
➡️ My advice: add the name of the service to which you’re subscribing - NordVPN in our example - into the email address that you’ll create for yourself on 33mail.com
Then, if any spam should ever come to you from the email address NordVPN@SeahawksWin.33mail.com you’ve got two HUGE advantages:
You’ll instantly know which platform the spam came from, something that’s excellent for conclusively reporting back to that platform.
Stopping the spam only requires ONE CLICK to permanently stop it. Even better, that one click is right in the email itself, at the very top. Just click that and… ALL EMAILS from that provider is gone. Forever.
For a deeper dive on this most favorite platform of mine, head over to Episode #3:
