Shit: One Of My Personal Email Account Was Breeched--Here's How To Check, Plus Temp Email.

[customerserviceguy]

7. About every two or three months

I get email from a legitimate outfit that says that it wants to validate my email. These are for song sites, like iTunes (won't have anything to do with Apple!) or gamer sites. I immediately go in, change the password to "GoFuckYourself" or something like that, then shut down the account. Or, if there's a way to gripe to the website, I inform them that someone has used my email to sign up for an account without my knowledge or permission.

If you've got an email address that is easy to say to other people and have them remember it, you can't avoid this. I could have some ungodly combination of letters, numbers, and symbols for an email address, but even I'd have trouble remembering it!