How can I send anonymous email?

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If it's easy to set up an anonymous email account, does that mean it is nearly impossible to find someone's real name by an email address. Question is...if my husband has set up an anonymous email for himself & he wants to keep private can I find the email address or not?

In the general sense - it would be extremely difficult. Nearly impossible for most. It normally takes some kind of "extra" knowledge --- like access to the computer used when using the account, or assistance from the anonymous email provider (which typically happens only as the result of a court order).

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hi, first im amazed that u can handle all these questions and helping all those people gr8 job!but like the others i have a question too lol im sorry if u awnsered it befor but i searched and didnt find it so here goes, do u know how i can send an anonymous email by that i mean whateveriwant@whateveriwant.wateveriwant, thanx for ur help and again gr8 job! bye

As the article states, the easiest way to send anonymous email is to set up a free email account with hotmail or other free email provider, using made-up information. Most techniques for using an arbitrary domain (as in @whateveriwant.wateveriwant) can be complicated, and could still be traced to the email account you used. Just create and use a free acount.

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My question is, I have created an anonymous yahoo email account with anonymous profile information etc.
I now hear that the company who has received the one and only email I have sent from that account (which has now been deleted) has contracted someone to 'trace' the origins of my email.
Am I safe or should I be worried? Are there any further precautions that I should take?
Thanks again!

Well can you trace an email from Yahoo or hotmail?

Nope.

If I set uup an email on yahoo (like the above one I have) no one can tell it came from my home computer. I was interested because if you chat with people and then decide to start emailing I wouldn't want them to trace where I was.

So, can an email account from an anonymous hotmail account be traced back from the computer at which the account was set up?

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