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Summary: Sending anonymous email is actually fairly easy.

I want to send email to a person I'm talking to on a dating service but I don't want them to be able to get my real email address and find me. what do I do?

Anonymous email is actually pretty easy...

I'd create a new account on a service such as yahoo or Hotmail. Don't specify any of your real personal information when you set up the account. Then use it only for this.

Then if things turn sour, you simply stop checking this account for new email.

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some one sent me a fake email,meaning the email was sent to me from a weired email adress which does not exist on the net ,how can he do that?
can i too do the same??

Posted by: nicky at November 16, 2006 4:30 AM

Hey I stumbled on this website:
http://www.email-sent.com/
Apparently you can send anonymous emails with it, but I tried sending them to my address and nothing happened. I'm worried I'm going to be sent junk mail...
The strange thing is it was recommended on this site:
http://www.1netcentral.com/anonymous-email.html

Posted by: Marzzbar at November 18, 2006 7:33 PM

Marzzbar, I have found http://www.mail-faker.com to work very well.

I found it recommended by http://www.anonymous247.com

Posted by: Matt at January 16, 2007 12:56 PM

Right, Did you know that within the header of messages sent via Hotmail, Yahoo and others reveals your REAl IP address? That is a trail right back to you. If you want to send real anonymous email messages use a service like Ultimate-Anonymity http://www.ultimate-anonymity.com as messages sent through them are truly anonymous and not traceable back to you. They also provide "disposable email addresses" which means you can setup addresses as will, use them ,then delete them when done.

Posted by: Josh Saunders at August 21, 2007 4:45 AM

Ultimate Anonymity has been around for 10 years or more. I think I signed up with them in 98 or 99 and I still use them on a regular basis. Very good outfit in my opinion with some really cool software and services.

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Posted by: Tapi Oka at August 25, 2007 11:36 AM

I just signed up for Ultimate Anonymity. Very cool site. Its service strips the headers and allows you to send an anonymous email and make the 'from' line anything you want. You can do this from their secured web form or download software and send anonymous messages right from your desktop. There are some really cool tools there.

Posted by: Gerold at September 6, 2007 12:38 PM

Thanks for the heads up on Ultimate Anonymity. Seems they deliver exactly what they promise. Very good service and the Anonymous Remailer appears to be VERY reliable.

Posted by: Tobi at October 24, 2007 8:53 PM

You probably did get a spam trap as they ae not uncommon. Also, neither one of those are on a secured (SSL) page which renders them useless and not private. Ultimate Anonymity provides a sample of their secured web based remailer at https://ultimate-anonymity.com/web-based-remailer.htm

It being just a sample will allow you to send yourself a message so you can view the headers to see it is really anonymous however, your message will be replaced with a plug (it is a sample). the subscribers interface has no plugs or advertisements in the header OR the message. I also like the fact that you can manipulate the "from" Line to appear as anything you desire.

Posted by: Simba at December 9, 2007 7:40 AM

IP Tracking is notoriously unreliable.

E.G. I live in the MidWest but my IP address places me on the West Coast.

Posted by: Ziggie at January 14, 2008 6:01 AM

Finally I found an anonymous email service that is totally free and simple to use, no forms to fill out. It's great.
go to: ENOTE.com

Posted by: Sue at April 11, 2008 5:49 PM

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