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Use a disposable email address from Yahoo Mail to avoid spam

Yahoo offers its customers 'disposable' email addresses to use is you want to sign up to a website but avoid their unwanted emails

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By changing your email address any mail will be returned to sender

A useful extra with a Yahoo Mail account is the option to create up to 500 disposable email addresses if you want to sign up to a website without getting spam emails.

Sign in to your account and click on the Options tab. Click on Disposable Email Addresses in the left-hand column and then Add Address.

Enter a name used by all the disposable accounts; it will suggest others if the name has been taken. Click Next and then enter a word for a disposable address.

Select where messages should go, and the name that should appear. Click Save.
Arthur Davies

 

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