Gmail logoIf you are a user of Gmail, then you might be surprised by what you can do with your email address.
Let’s say your email address is coffeeatea79@gmail.com. If anyone sends an email to coffeeatea.79@gmail.com, or coffee.a.tea79@gmail.com or even c.o.f.f.e.e.a.t.e.a.7.9@gmail.com, it will all land in the same inbox. In other words, Gmail addresses don’t recognize the periods. You can insert periods randomly into any Gmail address and it will all end up in one place.

How can this be useful? If you have multiple accounts on a website and can only use one unique email address per account, now you have a way to “fool” the website. One account might have an email address woailoogates@gmail.com, another might have email address woailoo.gates@gmail.com, and so on.

By the way, the email addresses have been taken from my Spammers’ Hall of Shame.

Published by Geoffrey Liu

A software engineer by trade and a classical musician at heart. Currently a software engineer at Groupon getting into iOS mobile development. Recently graduated from the University of Washington, with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Music. Web development has been my passion for many years. I am also greatly interested in UI/UX design, teaching, cooking, biking, and collecting posters.

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