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How to Protect your Personal Email from Spam

Protect your Personal Email from Spam
Protect your Personal Email from Spam

Every user wants to protect their personal email address from spam. And perhaps you are one of them. Well, if you are using yahoo account you can create and manage disposable email addresses to defend your primary address against spam. I will share you the trick, in this way you can hide and protect your personal email from spam. If you don't want to show your real personal email address for security purposes, do the following steps below...

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions
  1. Step 1
     

    Log in to your yahoo account, and at the right top of the page you can see "options," from the drop down arrow options select "Mail Options" and you will be brought to a new page, which is the "Mail Options" Page.

  2. Step 2
     

    In the "Mail Options" Page simply click the "Spam" button/link found at the left side of the page

  3. Step 3
     

    When you are at the "spam" page simply scroll down to "disposable Addresses" and click the "Set Up a disposable address" then the new "AddressGuard" page will pop-up

  4. Step 4
     

    From the "AddressGuard" page click the "add" button found bellow the word "Disposable Email Addresses" after clicking it, you can see a text box simply create or input a new disposable email address in the text box. This disposable email address is your secondary email address. If you use this email address the receiver will not be receiving your personal email address or primary email address, and take note you can still receive mails directly to your personal/original email inbox without exposing your personal email address.

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