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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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Leo Leo A. Notenboom has been playing with computers since he was required to take a programming class in 1976. An 18 year career as a programmer at Microsoft soon followed. After "retiring" in 2001, Leo started Ask Leo! in 2003 as a place for answers to common computer and technical questions. More about Leo.

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Or use http://sendanonymemail.info. :)

Posted by: Gabe at February 3, 2011 12:47 AM

www.howtosendanonymousemail.info

Posted by: Gabe at February 20, 2011 2:41 AM

http://www.freenetmailer.com

Posted by: Gabe at February 20, 2011 2:42 AM

You can also use http://anonymousfeedback.net?action=send

These guys allow you to have an anonymous conversation if you like (ie allow the other guy to respond if you want them to)

Posted by: Josh at March 11, 2011 4:18 PM

What happened to enote.com? It's the only anonymous email that actually worked...

Posted by: celeste at July 14, 2011 8:38 PM
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