Idea for protection against work mail getting spammed (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Nooodel@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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So something pissing me off is websites like lusha or dropcontact who use AI to give their customers your mail address if they only enter your name (which they get from LinkedIn, your company's website,...).

Our mailaddresses have the most basic format of firstname.lastname@company.com

So after threatening another one of those nuisances with a GDPR complaint, it got me thinking that this will become the new normal. We will have to live with it that someone tries to guess our mailadress instead of getting them from some shitty address dealer.

An idea to get rid of the problem in the future would be to add a random secret to work mail addresses, like

Firstname.lastname.secret@company.com Where the secret could be anything consisting of several letters. That way you can ensure that only people who you shared your contact details have your mailadress. What's your thoughts?

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[-] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 6 points 1 month ago

i mean alias emails have been a thing for a while now so i don't really see a problem with your approach

[-] ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I personally see nothing wrong with this other than it being slightly annoying to email someone within the company, but that shouldn't matter.

[-] Nooodel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

They're all in the contacts anyways, with autocompletion once you start typing their mailaddress

[-] ApplyingAutomation@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You could create the firstname.lastname.secret@company.com alias to your current email, then create a filter to auto-archive anything from outside your domain directed at your email directly.

this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024

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