Reduce Spam With a Temporary Email Address

Almost all websites require a valid email address to register. The more unscrupulous ones sell your email address to spammers and you get deluged with emails, pornography, scam attempts or worse. There is a simple way around this: use a free, no registration required, temporary email address.

These free email accounts are created on the fly, hold emails for a set period of time and delete their contents when they expire. They are an excellent option if all you need them for is to receive a password that allows you to post a comment or download a file.

Steps

1. Do a search on temporary email address using your favorite search engine.
2. Look for an option that:
   • does not require you to register.
   • allows you to configure the length of time it is active.
   • forwards emails to your real email account.
3. Provide the temporary address to the website you are trying to access.

Tips

• If you choose one which does not forward emails, save the automatically generated email address to a text file on your hard drive (so you remember it if you need to check your email)

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References

• See this page for reasons why temporary email addresses are banned on some sites.

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