1. Who gave away your email

Everyone hate spams, its meaningless. And you never knew who gave away your email. Here is a neat tips to track-down the spams using gmail. I found this tips at hedir.com posted by PCBguy.

The code will works if the registration form accept the plus (+) symbols (the plus sign is a valid format for email addresses and is defined in RFC 2822). On registration form write your gmail address like the format below


yourusername+registersite.com@gmail.com

example (not real XD) and I'm registering at myspace.com. so the format :

gmail process

When gmail service received the email it will separate the plus symbol and forward the email to

Now you can track-down spammer with the gmail 'search email' form. just key-in your bind account name like



if the search bring up spams email. You know whose to blame.

That's one hugely useful tip you found there, thx! although it should be fairly easy for mail crawlers to overcome it ;] still, neat ;]