Fight Spam with Disposable Email Addresses (DEA)

April 12th, 2008 | Category: security

The first unsolicited message (i.e. spam) was sent more than 30 years ago and March 31st 2008 marked 15th anniversary of the term “spam”. Unfortunately the activity of a small group of people is creating one of the biggest problem on the Internet. Some experts believe more than 90% of the email traffic is spam.

Many sites require you to register and provide your email address. If it is a reputable site they do take due diligence to protect your privacy and not spam you but the same cannot be said for all sites. They might sell your email address to spammers or themselves spam you. Spammers also use spambots that regularly crawl the Internet harvesting email addresses from websites and forums. You could protect yourself from spam by using Disposable Email Addresses (DEA).

DEA are basically temporary email addresses that are random and valid only for a short duration of time. After this they self destruct. It is generally not advisable to use DEA for online purchasing because you might not be able to receive your order confirmation email.

Forum and Wiki administrators often block DEA because it makes user administration harder. Some websites (for example digg or facebook) will not allow you to use most (not all) of the disposable email addresses.

I have compiled a list of 40+ websites that provide disposable email addresses.

No registration required
http://www.10minutemail.com – works great … my personal favorite
http://www.dandikmail.com/- default page is in Deutsch but you can switch to English, Spanish, Turkish
http://www.dodgit.com/
http://www.emailmiser.com/
http://www.fakedemail.com/ – automatically copies the fake email id into clipboard
http://www.guerrillamail.com/
http://www.incognitomail.com/
http://www.killmail.net/
http://www.maileater.com/
http://www.mailinator.com
http://www.mintemail.com/ – automatically copies the fake email id into clipboard
http://www.mytempemail.com/
http://www.nobulk.com/
http://www.pookmail.com
http://www.shortmail.net/
http://www.spam.la
http://www.spamcero.com/
http://www.spamhole.com/ – have used it in the past and works well
http://www.spamify.com/
http://www.spaml.com/ – automatically copies the fake email id into clipboard
http://www.tempe-mail.com/
http://www.tempemail.biz/
http://www.temporaryinbox.com/