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Anti-Phishing Email Address Strategy

So far, I've pretty much avoided doing any financial transactions over the Internet, but I'm thinking that I'm (finally!) going to break down and get a PayPal account. The question is: What email address should I use? It's a good strategy to use a unique email address for each of your financial-transaction correpondents because 1) you can easily filter these messages based on the recipient address, and 2) you will be able to identify -- and ignore -- any phishing message that is sent to the wrong email address. Examples of unique PayPal addresses include: 
  paypal@domain.name
  user+paypal@domain.name
  localpart@paypal.domain.name
I'm wondering what are the advantages and disadvantages of each of these types of addresses. In other words, is it better to create a unique email address by creating a unique local part (paypal@), a unique detail part (+paypal), a unique subdomain (paypal.domain.name), or some combination of these. In any case, I will set up the address with strong anti-phishing SMTP-level (MX) restrictions at Tuffmail (my email hosting provider).

My guess is that a good anti-phishing email address strategy will be useful to everyone who uses the Internet for financial transactions. Please post if you have any thoughts or recommendations about this.

above posted by Nancy on mercredi, août 02, 2006   |   permalink to this page   |

 

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