I strongly recommend that before you sign up with any of the restaurants on Birthday freebie threads ("100 Places with Birthday Freebies for you!" or "Restaurants that give FREE Meals on your Birthday"), you
really really need to get a 2nd email address if you don't already have one.
I signed up with Arby's, Cold Stone, Del Taco, Acapulco, and Buffets Inc. Within hours, I was
flooded with bogus offers. Emails supposedly from Red Lobster, KFC, US Airways, CVS, and KLM Airlines just to name a few. They were ALL from fake email addresses with links to fake websites.
So, be careful out there