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Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by dharmab »

desireco42 wrote: post #118
Semaphor wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have first.last@gmail.com and I've had people play poker and lottery and sign up for dating websites with my e-mail address. I've also received confidential information from insurance and building construction companies. It's hilarious.

Me too, why do you think this happens? I get emails from people who send it to my exact email, I am not sure why they think this is their email (sorry don't want to disclose my email... but it might be in profile :) ).

XKCD has a comic about that experience: https://www.xkcd.com/1279

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by ficklepickle »

jpeeler wrote: post #109
reaperducer wrote: post #90

guerillaclick+eralp@gmail.com guerillaclick+sdfaskdma@gmail.com guerillaclick+111@gmail.com Unfortunately, more and more services are rejecting + e-mail addresses. Either ignoring them, or flagging them as an error. While it's perfectly within the RFC, companies are catching on to the trick. (3M, I'm looking at you!)

Years ago I locked myself out of my Amazon account. Since I really wanted to keep using the same email account (and I didn't care about Amazon history, nor did I wish to go through an official account reset) I resigned up using a +suffix. I'm still amazed the second account was able to be created, though it's possible it's no longer allowed since this was around 2005 or so.

Still works.

I made a +suffix account so I'm not buying stuff on amazon with my AWS account.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by giarc »

megaman8 wrote: post #126

What's awesome here, is that he/she's created a solution to a problem that almost everyone has. It might need a little work, as shown by other comments. but the core idea is a good workaround for sites that force you to give a bad email address to get at the content.

Is it a problem though for legit sign ups? I find the problem is that when you click the link in your email, you now have 2 tabs open. One with a verified login and one without.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by abryzak »

reaperducer wrote: post #101
judge2020 wrote: post #99

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It's within RFC, but they all lead to one email inbox so you end up being able to manage multiple third-party accounts from a single email account. It's recommended to not reject these, but strip them: https://gist.github.com/judge2020/af8fb9cd2ac165462d44de4e58... https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...

Yes, I know that. And as I mentioned, companies are still rejecting these addresses anyway because they know people are using them to identify and filter spam.

This is why I use a catch-all on my own domain with a blacklist for companies found sharing or leaking the email address I gave to them. Fastmail makes this really easy to set up and their web interface also lets you set the From address to anything on the domain.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by acomjean »

Semaphor wrote: post #75
nine_k wrote: post #23

This is delightfully crazy. Give some random guys with no website your registration record somewhere, allow them to verify your registration as theirs, and then impersonate you, reset passwords, see any communications, possibly log in as yourself and do anything. All this with no recourse. Nigerian spammers moan from envy for such a brilliant self-propelled gullibility filter.

I have first.last@gmail.com and I've had people play poker and lottery and sign up for dating websites with my e-mail address. I've also received confidential information from insurance and building construction companies. It's hilarious.

I had a coworker who had the same name as a coworker in Phoenix as (we are in Boston). He kept getting invites to meetings out there because the online email was also a scheduling tool (notes). He was getting annoyed dealing with them. I suggested flying to Phoenix to go to one of these meetings...

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by Dolores12 »

cenal wrote: post #56
close04 wrote: post #42

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Also Mailinator is banned by multiple sites and I feel like that number is increasing (anecdata). Which means it's getting less and less useful for the purpose of "burner" email addresses.

You can point your own domain to mailinator mx records for free. Don’t have a domain to throw spam at? Pick a sub domain and use that.

service will check MX record of your email and refuse to register if it match mailinator's MX.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by eralpb »

cypherg wrote: post #130
miketuritzin wrote: post #63

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Yeah, my interpretation is that it's for situations where you would normally prefer to use a fake email (joeblow238998324@gmail.com) but can't because of the verify link.

I typically use a rando address @mailsac.com but then I have to take the 3 steps to visit, enable links, click links. With this tool, I'm saved those 3 steps. Keep in mind, this is strictly for throw-away accounts that require registration

Thanks for seeing the value, after releasing this I got to know some services require session authentication, so without your password (or cookies) the bot cannot verify.

I think this was a nice experiment and still usable for many services.

Re: Show HN: Startup with no website - GuerillaClick@gmail.com

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Post by meruru »

codetrotter wrote: post #59
gpm wrote: post #49

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I mean, either it doesn't or that's not the URL... I just pulled the name from a hat.

It’s http://www.neopets.com/ Wow they’ve been around for 20 years now, that’s not bad!

Dude who made it posted on /r/golang recently. Apparently his next masterpiece will be in Go :)
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