i own a domain, and have a catchall account which forwards to a single address.

any time i sign up for a service, i use their business name as the prefix.

for example : i decide to go shop at a store called Mold Gravy, and the clerk tells me i can save 15% on today’s purchase by giving them my email address. i tell them it’s [email protected].

this keeps my actual main email account from getting polluted, and also if i notice an increase in spam, i can see which company either sold my fake email address, or were compromised, and the i can simply block it.

it costs $10/yr for a domain name, and another $5/month for hosting. well worth it.

ETA : there’s a lot of really great suggestions here, not only in response to me, but also in this whole thread!

Its my old gmail account.

It's the main email that I have been using for almost 20 years. Now it is my junk email.

I use my main account for that. I just unsubscribe from all news letters immediately so I don't generally get any spam.

My email comes with masked email options, so if I need an email I just hit create and it generates one that forwards to/from my account. Just as easy to block or delete them.

My junk mail address is the name people hear when I say my actual name. So I guess it's the more common, phonetically similar name to mine.

It's my final yahoo email. Used it as a kid so obviously it's already full of spam, now I just use it for even more spam

I like to use the scientific names of common things, like vegetables.

Simplelogin. I have like 500 email addresses, all single use

Proton. They have a mail aliases feature where you can create temporary email addresses which forward to your account. Then, if you start getting junk you didn't ask for, or have trouble unsubscribing, you just delete the alias.

[email protected]

Duck duck go has generative email addresses. Seem to work pretty well.

It’s my Hotmail account

I use Port87, so my junk email is just part of my real email, which is my name.

Buy a cheap xyz domain. Use catchall address.

Anything that needs an unconfirmed signup, I've always used Don B. Sonozi - [email protected]

I figure that one day a spammer will learn regret.

If I need a burner email I can generate a temporary one on Tempmail

Other than that - my account for "less important stuff" is just one of my old ones. ;)

It was the coolest name from the random generator

It's my cringe weeb account from when I was, like 10. I'm talking "NekoOniBakaChan_[email protected]" levels of cringe.

A couple words from a dream I'd had that burrowed deep into my brain for a short time. I figured it was unique enough, I could get the original and not have to add number at the end.