Defeat Spammers with Disposable Email Addresses!
Here are Three Good Places to Get Disposable Email Addresses
The world is full of disposable things – disposable diapers, disposable razors, disposable lighters, and so on. Disposable email addresses are desirable if you don’t want to give someone, something, or some company your real email address – mainly because you don’t want to be flooded with spam – or maybe you just want to skulk around the Internet furtively like EB.
For every one of you who’ve ever wished for a fake email address that you could use when ordering online, joining something, or flaming EB, there is probably a fake email site. There are dozens of them. If you’re favorite is not listed here, don’t blame me – three means three.
1 > MailDrop
Number one on our list of three – zowie! what an honor! MailDrop is number one because we just put it number one. It could have been #3. But something has to be #1, right?
Well, I’m not going to spend my time being redundant (yes, I’ve turned over a new leaf)… so I will let the MailDrop folks tell you all about it.
MailDrop is a free throwaway e-mail address. It’s temporary. It’s transient. It’s disposable. It’s meant for those times when you don’t want to give out your real address. Just give someone any e-mail address in the maildrop.cc domain, come back here, put in the e-mail address, and you can see that inbox.
MailDrop has no signups.
MailDrop has no passwords.
MailDrop is designed for no security.
MailDrop is designed for little to no privacy.
MailDrop offers the ability to give out a quick e-mail address to any site or app, then after you’ve established more trust with that site, you can give them your real e-mail address.
MailDrop helps to stop your inbox from getting flooded with spam from that one time you registered on a site that got hacked.
MailDrop can be used to get your receipt for your e-commerce purchase, without signing up to be spammed regularly with “latest offers”.
In short, MailDrop can help you cut out the amount of junk in your inbox.
Get your own fake email address at MailDrop and send the spammers scramming.
2 > ThrowAwayMail
Love the name, don’t you? You know all about tearaway clothing right? It’s big in football and funeral homes. Well, this has nothing to do with tearaway or caraway, but it has a lot to do with ThrowAway…mail that is.
With ThrowAwayMail you cannot make up spiffy email addresses like eb-hates-me or eb-eats-dead-flies, you have to take what is generated for you. However…look at it this way, it’s completely random. Just make sure you don’t forget your own fake email address or you will be gnashing your teeth.
ThrowAwayMail.com is a disposable e-mail address service. Every time you visit ThrowAwayMail.com a new e-mail address is generated just for you. The generated e-mail address can immediately receive an e-mail, and any e-mail that is received will show up on the main page. No one other than you will see the e-mail that is received.
When should you use ThrowAway Mail?
You want to sign up for a website but you’re concerned that they might share your address with advertisers.
You don’t want to publish your email address in a place that could be picked up by address-harvesting bots.
You are required to provide an email address to a mobile app that shouldn’t be sending you email messages anyway.
When you have to give your address to companies that have a track record of less-than-stellar security.
When you are making a one-time purchase from an e-commerce site where you don’t want follow-up spam about their “latest deals” in your inbox.
You need to receive exactly one email from a sender and then you can completely ignore every other email afterwards.
You are just trying out an internet service that requires you to verify your email address before proceeding.
Go forth now, if you dare, and get your own disposable email address at ThrowAwayMail
3> Guerilla Mail
Love this one. I created an email address doctordolittle@spacelasers.com. See, and I can paste that because you can spam that address all you want. If I’m signing up for something I am not quite sure of, I can just use doctordolittle@spacelasers.com. Spam me if you dare! The email address is good for one hour- I can check that email and reply to it – but only for one hour. After that poof, no email address, no spam.
Here’s what Guerilla Mail has to say:
This is your Inbox ID, there’s no signup or passwords. You may change your Inbox ID to whatever you like. You may choose alternative domains too, all email will arrive to the same inbox below. All addresses last forever, and anyone can access it if they know this Inbox ID. Email messages are held for one hour before they are deleted, if you check them or not.
I can even scramble my doctordolittle@spacelasers.com address and use the scrambled address to give to someone or when I sign up for something. The scrambled address looks like this…
sr3fgx+7btw1w6vpc4ydd35dnkhq8@spam4.me
But it still comes to me at doctordolittle@spacelasers.com. Or it was me. That address was only good for one hour. Just long enough for me to give someone I don’t know an email address that I can actually check and verify. And after an hour they can’t bother me again.
There’s also a password manager on Guerilla Mail too. You might want to check that out – it looks interesting but we didn’t try it out this article is about disposable email addresses, ya know?
Visit Guerilla Mail now ,,, and get as many disposable email addresses as your little heart desires. Each email address is disposable – it will be flushed down the internet drain after sixty minutes.
Are you looking for #4?
There is no number 4! There are a lot more disposable email places besides these three. You can pick your own #4 and #5 and so on. There are many, many more disposable email sites. We might feature a couple more, but not today. I’m too tired. EB made me do laundry today as well as fix computers and polish her Crocs.
If you have a favorite fake email place, comment on this article and share your favorite disposable email sites with us all – and save me a lot of writing. I have laundry to do, crocs to polish, and computers to fix!