How to find the email abusing company
By: Martin Reinert


Article explaining How To Find Out Who Abuses Your Email Address. Forwarders can assist you.

Having your own domain name (john-brown.com) allows you to generate many different addresses for using when contacting companies and the like online. If you use a different address for each contact, you can determine if a particular company starts sending you spam or has provided your email address to another company.
What you do is create a forwarder with a name that says who you gave it to (ford45-com@john-brown.com) and give each seperate address to each person/or company/ or website you contact. This helps you identify exactly who sells or provides your email address to others.

When you start to get spam to ford45-com@john-brown.com you know that it was ford (dot) com that provided the email address to some spammer. (Ford dot com is only used as example of a domain name, and there is no implication or hint applied of email abuse from this company or domain name.)

What you do then is to contact the company explaining how you know they have provided your email to a spammer and that they have ruined their reputation with you and that you will inform every person you talk to about spam about their abuse.
After that delete the forwarder in your email system and you no longer get spam to that email address. Simple and effective.

Warning: before you start to accuse companies of abusing your email address which you have given them, make sure you READ THEIR PRIVACY POLICY before submitting it to them. Some companies include option for other sites or companies they own to also send you email, and others include the right to send you commercial messages they deem to have interest for their email subscribers.

A forwarder sends email from ford45-com@john-brown.com to john@john-brown.com, which is the email address (POP3 email account) that requires username and password to check/download email..

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Martin Reinert has been hosting web sites and registering domain names for people, organizations and businesses since 1997 and now with the website EasyCheapWebhosting.com. Martin Reinert has been a domain name consultant for a number of years handling over thousand domain names.
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