5 “DISPOSABLE” Web Accounts to Keep Your Identity Safe

Another good disposable service is http://www.drop.io – drop.io lets you create drops which are disposable web addresses that you can store files, notes, whatever on at http://www.drop.io/disposablespace - all the media gets converted to be web friendly. But the service also automatically gives you an email address at disposablespace@drop.io – this is really useful simple way to be able to receive emails and store whatever you want online without any registration… i have used it several times and really like it.

awesome post!! really important.. ill save it to my bookmar.
thank you..

I’ve used spammotel.com for several years which gives permanent, long-term email storage. Also, trashmail.net for temp email accounts.

Nice little collection. What are the privacy policies at online file storage places?

I also use gmail for this stuff– just generate a new account with usual.name.thisjunkysite@gmail.com. Then I can track and see how sleazy the site really is. And nothing goes away, so I can find it later, if need be.

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disposable, shareable notes : http://cl1p.net/

I just tried Mintemail. The site says “MintEmail.com gives you a four hour temporary email address.” I use mailinator.com for junk sites. Mailinator only holds your messages for 15 muinutes and if you have an unusual name there it is likely no one would read it. But for those pesky registration sites it is great.

MintEmail is actually based on the code I wrote and open sourced for 2Prong.com. I’d also point out that 2Prong has a new domain every few weeks to avoid Mailinator style domain bans.

Just wanted to point that out. Great tips on the Numbr thing, thanks.

mailinator.com……for email

I have been using http://www.grandcentral.com by google.

WH4F has disposable email accounts as well

URL for file-io is bad.

Correct URL is:
http://file.io

Yes, the www does actually mean something.

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FYI- Bugmenot tends to not work….

Great article, I posted something before but it wasnt up. dugg. I also posted it on , opentopix dot com

I use http://www.sneakemail.com/ for disposable email addresses. It works fantastically well.

I’ve used all of these before, but the disposable phone number surprised me. As for the identity generator, you’re better off randomly searching the yellow pages. It’s pretty easy to verify addresses now.

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@Matt: I didn’t know there were any cheap places that verify addresses.. Do you know of a cheap/free one?

Check out 10-Minute Mail.com
Works like a charm!

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I’ve used GishPuppy for a while now. Full online management and a firefox extension so I don’t have to leave the page I’m filling in.

We sometimes use disposable video rooms at mebeam

Disposable Email - Account disappears as soon as the browser closes.
http://2prong.com

I would recommend dodgeit.com for fake emails.

I use http://www.spaml.com for all my disposable email needs. It automatically checks new mail for you.

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10minutemail.com is a throwaway email generator. You can extend the time if need be — I don’t know if this is indefinite as I’ve never needed to do so more than once.

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Spamgourmet.com

I’ve use them for the last 3 yrs and its so easy. I must have about 200 addresses. Instantly come up with email address, since emails addressing goes “anything you want”.”# of emails you want to get”.”user id”@spamgourmet.com. So just to keep track of how well certain site keep your email private, I put the website’s name into the address I creat.

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I can’t believe I haven’t seen Spamgourmet(.com) mentioned. Your e-mail is permanently (unless you change it) associated with a spamgourmet login, and you append a prefix to your login@spamgourmet.com to have all e-mails sent to that prefix forwarded to your e-mail address. The beauty comes in the prefix — you can specify a certain number of messages forwarded before the prefix becomes inactive, or you can associate it to forward e-mail from only one address. All of this is done in the e-mail address itself, so you don’t need to go and create an address.

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This really has nothing to do with the topic, but http://esnailer.com/ lets you mail some online. It’s totally free too! Great post by the way.

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I use

10minutemail.com

instead of the one listed here, and quite like it.

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Spamify.com generates a disposable email address for you as well, it lasts 15 minutes, and you can also respond to messages sent to the disposable email address. If 15 minutes isn’t enough time, you can click a button and get another 15 minutes.

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You can create free disposable addresses with Yahoo.

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Great Website for Identity Theft Information and Resources:

http://www.IDTheftDefense.com