Oh Boy…are you going to l-o-v-e this…I sure do!

You know how sometimes you sign up for offers, or more info…fill in your name and email address…(which they swear upon their children’s lives NEVER to divulge)…and a few days later you are getting email from organizations and people you never heard of in your whole life?

Well…that little mystery is just about to be solved!

Now first you need… or have to get…  a Google email account… which is no big deal… just type Google email in your search bar, then click on one of the thousands of links, and then sign up for the account.

And THEN the fun begins!

Only use this account for opting in or signing up for offers or info. (Still use your real email account for your personal or business email.)

Choose something easy for you to remember…like yourname@gmail.com     or     yourpetsname@gmail.com    

Then…next time you sign up for something…and have to provide an email address…you are going to remember your gmail account…and you are going to use that…

Only with a little “twist”. 

Come to find out, we can use this little-known secret:

Say you want info on an offer by JoeBlow, and Joe wants your name and email address so he can send it to you.

Great! 

And say you signed up at Google email and your new gmail address is:     herekittykitty@gmail.com  

So what email address are you going to give him?

herekittykitty+JoeBlow@gmail.com

You know why?  Because here’s the secret: when gmail sees the +  sign in an email address, it uses all the characters to the LEFT of the + (which would be your herekittykitty) to know who to send the email to!  Really!

That means when ABC sends you an offer…you know what to put as your email address, right?

herekittykitty+ABC@gmail.com  

And it gets even better….

NOW you will be able to use this trick to find out WHO gave your email address out to everyone else in the first place!

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