 Hi everyone how's it going? Today I wanted to talk to you about a hack let's say a hack dealing with your email and how to get less spam or possibly no spam. If you are working as a freelancer, chances are I mean if you're working anywhere chances are you're getting a lot of spam. I mean let's face it in this day and age you're going to get spam because there's so many things that you sign up for whether you're online people want your email address to sign up for this newsletter you need your email address to order this or to get that and when you go to a store they want your email address even you know I go to j crew and they want my email address for some reason and you know you see this all over the place and people are always asking for email addresses after a while you're going to start getting spam you start getting weird emails advertising random crap that have nothing to do with you usually they're trying to sell you something that you don't want you know it's stuff you didn't sign up for and so what happened in those cases what happened is one of the places that you gave your email address to either well if they're dishonest they sold your email address or you know it got published somewhere and or maybe you even published it something you know you put it up somewhere and so they have these I mean they have all this stuff nowadays but these bots that can go trawl and and figure out you know find all these email addresses and so they can send it to random people or I mean you never know you know someone security j crew j crew's security might not be very good and someone someone was able to hack in and get a bunch of email addresses nothing against j crew I mean I just came to mind you know and why do people do this because then they can get access to thousands and tens of thousands or whatever of email addresses and just send a whole bunch of stuff out to them and it's worth it to them because it costs nothing to send all these out in fact they usually have programs that do it all automatically and you'll just get a certain number of people that'll click on the link that'll do this do that and we'll get some people to pay them money for whatever it is they're spamming you about but for the vast vast vast majority of us it's just annoying we get these spam emails and we have to delete delete delete delete and we unsubscribe we do this do that but that doesn't help anything so you need to go to the source you need to nip it in the bud first of all is if you have your own domain because I know a lot of you out there have your own domain and so I want to address that one first and the second one is if you don't have your own domain and you're using say gmail and um and you want to limit the amount of spam if you have your own domain your name is joe schmo and you you have joe schmo.com right then you make your email address joe at joe schmo.com so what you can do when you set up your email address and you can do this with all hosting clients no matter what you use go daddy register you know this that and the other you um you can make your email address a catch all account and what does a catch all account do well it makes sure to catch all the emails to your domain so maybe your email address is joe at joe schmo.com maybe someone misspells your name instead of joe he writes joe at joe schmo.com in which case you wouldn't get the email but if you have a catch all account you'll still get it in fact if someone writes to info at joe schmo.com you'll still get it someone writes to contact at joe schmo.com you'll get it someone writes to blah blah blah blah at joe schmo.com you'll get it you get the idea A catch-all account means any email that's sent to anything at joshmo.com, you'll get it. Why does this help? Why do I mention this? Well, because when you do sign up for stuff, say people at J.Crew ask you for your email address, then what you can do, once again no offense to J.Crew, I just came to my mind, what you can do is just write J.Crew at joshmo.com or whatever you want, J.Crew downtown at joshmo.com or something like that. The reason you do this is A, if they send you an email you're interested in, then you will actually get it. But B, if you start getting spammed a lot, if they spam you or if suddenly after a couple months you get random spams from random spam emails from random people and you see that they're all being sent to J.Crew at joshmo.com, well then you can decide to block J.Crew at joshmo.com and you can filter out so any email to that specific email address gets blocked out. This is super useful, as you can imagine, when you're getting spammed. Oh, Cardelmar. I rented a car from a company called Cardelmar. They're some car rental brokerage company. They were terrible. But so what I did was I wrote Cardelmar at mydomain.com. If I did get spammed from them, then I would see that the spam is arriving at Cardelmar at Akahi.com, which is my domain. And so I could then block everything that comes directed to Cardelmar at Akahi.com. You can do the same thing. You have joshmo.com, J.Crew is sending you spam. You can block anything that comes to J.Crew at joshmo.com, but you'll still get all the stuff that's sent to joe at joshmo.com, at info at joshmo.com, at Macy's at joshmo.com, whatever else he signed up for. So if you have your own domain, you should get a catchall account and use a different email address before the at sign, because that way you can control the spam later on when you get it. Now, like I said, some of you don't have your domain, and you'll be using one of those free email services, usually Gmail. Pretty much everyone has Gmail. So what you can do with Gmail is, once again, if you're there at J.Crew and your name is joshmo at gmail.com, what you can do if they ask you for your email address is write joshmo plus sign J.Crew, everything attached, joshmo plus jcrew at gmail.com, and you'll still get the email. It'll come to your joshmo at gmail.com, but it'll also be personalized. So that way, if you start receiving spam to that specific email address, you can always just block that specific email address, and you won't get any more spam, at least not from that source. So this is just a way in which you can decrease spam. Unfortunately, because if you start getting spam to your main email address, you know, you have to delete them one by one, block them one by one. But if your email address has been sold out there somewhere, you're going to have tons and tons of people with your email address emailing you. But if they have an email address that you can block altogether, I mean, then it's great because then you can block that email address and go on with your day. So anyway, I hope you found this useful and I hope it made sense. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know. But this is something that I think all of you should be doing with your email. And that way you can just limit the amount of spam you get. Nothing's 100%. Some spam always comes through in this day and age. It's pretty much impossible, but it really does limit the amount of spam you get. And you can also filter out any spam you get right at the source. So you don't have to bother with it for years and years and years. So I hope you found this useful. If you did, please don't forget to click like because that always helps. And don't forget to subscribe for more emails that can help you out as a freelancer, as a freelance translator. 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