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January 17, 2023 05:37PM
Does anyone know of any apps or sites that provide burner emails? I have maxed out the number of email addresses that I can have with Gmail and I like to repeat shops for different clients that require a new email address for every shop. Sometimes it's frustrating to try to remember which emails I have used and which ones are still available. How do experienced shoppers keep things straight?
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January 17, 2023 05:53PM
Do this, create variations on your gmail addresses.
Regular gmail: burner@gmail.com
Variation one: burn.er@gmail.com
Variation two: burner+shopname@gmail.com (unlikely you'd want to do that!)
Variation three: burner+anything@gmail.com
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January 17, 2023 06:15PM
@olympia tennenbaum wrote:

Do this, create variations on your gmail addresses.
Regular gmail: burner@gmail.com
Variation one: burn.er@gmail.com
Variation two: burner+shopname@gmail.com (unlikely you'd want to do that!)
Variation three: burner+anything@gmail.com

Would this work for shops that require an email response?
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January 17, 2023 06:31PM
why can't you just add a number. shopper1, shopper2, shopper3 and so on?
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January 17, 2023 06:36PM
I have never heard of a maximum number of gmail accounts. I thought you could have as many as you want with them. I have to create a new account for every assignment I get with Mintel.

Lady Marius
Canadian Mystery Shopper
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January 17, 2023 06:43PM
@olympia tennenbaum wrote:

Do this, create variations on your gmail addresses.
Regular gmail: burner@gmail.com
Variation one: burn.er@gmail.com
Variation two: burner+shopname@gmail.com (unlikely you'd want to do that!)
Variation three: burner+anything@gmail.com

SORRY - just need to add that you don't need to create a new address through gmail to do this. Adding a period or +something can be done with your existing addresses.
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January 17, 2023 06:44PM
@Lady Marius wrote:

I have never heard of a maximum number of gmail accounts. I thought you could have as many as you want with them. I have to create a new account for every assignment I get with Mintel.

I thought so too until I got an error one day saying that I had the max amount of accounts associated with my phone number. I only have four accounts attached to my phone number so I was surprised that gmail cut me off.
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January 17, 2023 06:58PM
Don't know the limit. Haven't tried to open that many. What about Yahoo? You can start doing some there.
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January 17, 2023 08:29PM
I just read that... It is a 4 max with any given phone number. I have never connected my gmail accounts to any phone number so In have like 21 gmails at the moment. For current and past Mintel assignments.

Lady Marius
Canadian Mystery Shopper
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January 17, 2023 08:35PM
Hmm I might try and see if I can remove my phone number to get around that.
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January 17, 2023 09:49PM
Apple has the "hide my email" feature. Really convenient. Effortless.
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January 18, 2023 02:58AM
Olympia's suggestions are good. I do similar things with numbers in various positions, and then i use different numbers.
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January 18, 2023 05:08AM
Yes, as @Tanischri87 wrote, I can use the same email, but select "hide my email," and some random email is automatically created. I also have many with YAHOO, and have not been limited with them.
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January 19, 2023 04:07AM
You could get a Google voice number and start all over again with getting email accounts for that one.
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January 19, 2023 05:24AM
I used someone on Fiverr (Google it) to create 25 new Gmails a month for me back when I was doing a ton of new home video projects. It ended up costing me about $15 all in to get them created. I was able to immediately change each Gmail password after I paid my $15. have no idea how they did it, but they were located in Bangladesh and probably asked friends and relatives to use their phone numbers… who knows?

I only used each email once, so I have no idea if Google ever caught on to the whole setup or not. It didn’t matter to me if they were cancelled a few days later; I had to burn each email address anyway.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/19/2023 05:29AM by ColoKate63.
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January 19, 2023 06:29AM
Well...GOOGLE knows about it now, since you said it. LOL.
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January 20, 2023 02:31AM
I use a combination of gmail addresses and yahoo addresses when I do recurring shops that require different email addresses. I may be a dinosaur, but I like Yahoo mail! I set up a spreadsheet to keep track of which email addys I've used for which shops.

I learn something new every day, but not everyday!
I've learned to never trust spell-check or my phone's auto-fill feature.
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