Editing Anti-spam techniques (section)

===Disposable email addresses===
{{Main|Disposable email address}}

An email user may sometimes need to give an address to a site without complete assurance that the site owner will not use it for sending spam. One way to mitigate the risk is to provide a ''disposable'' email address — an address which the user can disable or abandon which forwards email to a real account. A number of services provide disposable address forwarding. Addresses can be manually disabled, can expire after a given time interval, or can expire after a certain number of messages have been forwarded.
Disposable email addresses can be used by users to track whether a site owner has disclosed an address, or had a [[Data Security|security breach]].<ref>[http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11488 Customers: TD Ameritrade failed to warn of breach] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305064417/http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11488 |date=2012-03-05 }}</ref>