Reusing a One-Time-Use Email? (Solved!)

WARvault on 09/07/2022 - 08:21
Last edited 09/07/2022 - 12:32 by 1 other user

Hey OzBees,

I have a small problem I am sure someone knows a way around.

For the upcoming season of indoor soccer, the local league has demanded we register each child with a separate, never-before-used, email address. So we can't use the email address we used last season, and we can't use the same address for both kids…

Does anyone know a hack around this?

Edit: Big thanks to everyone who said [email protected]. I was wracking my brain trying to remember this trick and DuckDuckGo'd to the best of my ability and could not find it. OzBargain hivemind to the rescue!

Internet

Comments

  • juzza87 on 09/07/2022 - 08:22
    +3

    Gmail accounts are free.

    • 87percent on 09/07/2022 - 08:33
      +10

      And just use [email protected] to get even more email addresses

      • dust on 09/07/2022 - 09:35
        +2

        Adding random dots in your Gmail account also works.

        • Muzeeb on 09/07/2022 - 09:45
          +1

          That's my workaround for all my Macca's accounts.

          • elgrande on 09/07/2022 - 09:59
            +1

            @Muzeeb: Gotta love cycling through looking for the best discount

      • WARvault on 09/07/2022 - 10:05

        This is the tip I was looking for!

    • Dave Bowman on 09/07/2022 - 08:37
      +4

      You can also set a forward from a Gmail address to your own, so you don't need to check multiple addresses for correspondence.

  • WreckTangle on 09/07/2022 - 08:51
    +9

    Thats weird. Why do they do that?

    • Muzeeb on 09/07/2022 - 09:46
      +3

      Because some volunteer with no idea is running the show.

    • WARvault on 09/07/2022 - 10:06
      +3

      I dunno! The whole situation has a super wired vibe to it. Are they reselling the email addresses? It smacks of scamming or maybe carving out vulnerable kids…

      • Dave Bowman on 09/07/2022 - 11:17

        Maybe their system just doesn't allow duplicate email addresses. Sounds dumb, but I can think of some platforms that this would be a problem with.

      • jetblack on 10/07/2022 - 10:22
        +1

        It honestly just sounds like someone has created a system on the cheap and whoever built it has given no fucκs about usability. Like it was easier to just not figure out how to handle duplicate email addresses and to put the problem onto users, than to build a system that is easier to use.

        Money tends not to flow freely in community organisations, so as long as it works - even if poorly - they'll work with what they have…

    • 87percent on 09/07/2022 - 09:05
      +2

      And the bonus of doing this, if someone sells your email, you can see whom it is!

      • dust on 09/07/2022 - 11:05
        +2

        If I was selling email addresses though I'd just make a script to delete all the "+" so that they don't know I'm selling their email addresses.

        • whatwasherproblem on 09/07/2022 - 17:18
          +1

          Too much work, and anyone that knows how to write a regex is overqualified for the position anyway.

        • DoctorCalculon on 09/07/2022 - 21:52
          +3

          If I was selling email addresses though I'd just make a script to delete all the "+" so that they don't know I'm selling their email addresses.

          If you are a smart scammer, yes. You would trim all the `.` as well as anything after '+".

          99% don't bother. This is why I was able to trace some of the scam emails right back to the ShopBack data breach.

  • John Kimble on 09/07/2022 - 11:01
    +4

    Have you asked them why they require this? Makes no sense.

  • Ocker on 09/07/2022 - 12:18

    Use Spamex - about $10 a year for up to 500 disposable address', which you can turn off/on at will.

  • Rako on 09/07/2022 - 18:41
    +1

    simplelogin email alias
    Next time a website asks for your email address, give an alias instead of your real email.
    Emails sent to an alias are forwarded to your inbox without the sender knowing anything.
    https://simplelogin.io/

  • susannetsv on 10/07/2022 - 09:57
    +2

    If you have an Apple phone you can use the “Hide My Email” feature which creates a new email address and then just forwards and incoming emails to the email address used for your iTunes account. It keeps a list of email addresses you have created in the phone settings and you can deactivate any email addresses at any time. I have been using this a lot as it’s good to have different email addresses for everything so your details being hacked is less of a risk for the hackers to gain access to other accounts you have . Many people use the same email address and password across lots of different websites which is a hackers dream but using Hide My Email solves this issue . You also do not need to remember any passwords as there isn’t one, it’s just a sub account of your main email and it even creates the name of the account and you get a choice of 3 different email addresses you can use, it’s very quick and very effective.

    • StingyBritches on 10/07/2022 - 10:57
      +1

      This! Works a treat, especially as you can so easily find who sold your email or was breached by the bad guys.

      Saved my bacon a few times.

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