Fake Gmail Generator

Published: 2017-11-16 · Updated: 2026-08-26

Gmail ignores dots. fake.email@gmail.com, fakeemail@gmail.com and fa.ke.email@gmail.com are one mailbox — yours. Every service you hand one of them to sees a different address; every message still lands in the same inbox.

Type your Gmail name below to list the variants. Between n letters there are n−1 gaps, and each gap either holds a dot or does not: nine letters give 256 forms, fifteen give 16,384.

You may also see this called the “Gmail dot trick” or “Googlemail trick”. Nothing you type here is stored: the variants are built for the page in front of you and written down nowhere.

Number of possible email aliases: 256

Where this stops working

• Sites that normalise addresses. A growing number strip dots and + tags before checking, precisely because of this. The variants collapse into one and the second sign-up is refused.
• Anything tied to the account itself. Password resets, two-factor prompts and account recovery all reach the same inbox — it is the same account. A variant hides nothing from Google.
• Other providers. Dots are meaningless only at Gmail. Elsewhere j.smith@ and jsmith@ are two different people, and writing to the wrong one is a real mistake.

The opposite tool

This page turns one address into many. To go the other way — reduce a list of variants back to the single address they all deliver to, which is how you find duplicates or spot an alias — use Gmail Washer.

Neither behaviour is a loophole we found. Google documents both itself — in its Gmail help article on dots in addresses, and in the 2008 announcement that introduced the plus tag. Worth knowing: it means this will not quietly change.

Related

• Fake email address: what it is and how to make one that works — the difference between many written forms of one mailbox and many separate mailboxes.
• A list of test email addresses — when you need addresses that reach nobody at all, rather than variants of your own.
• Fake emails: the questions people actually ask.

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