HOW TO CREATE A DISPOSABLE/TEMPORARY EMAIL ADDRESS

HELLO EARTHSURFERS!

Today, we are going to learn about temporary/disposable email addresses, their uses and how to create them.  Recently, there are lots of spammers and scammers on the web and it is good to create a temporary email address that will foward to your real email address so that when you start receiving spam/scam mails, you can delete them without affecting anyone else.



WHAT IS A DISPOSABLE EMAIL ADDRESS?

Disposable Email Addressing (DEA) is a better way to share your email address. The idea behind DEA is to create a new email address every time you register and have that address automatically forward messages to your real email address. Then you can easily "dispose" of that address when it is no longer needed without affecting anyone else.

WHY SHOULD YOU CREATE A DISPOSABLE EMAIL?

Email Registration is a Fact of Life. Whatever you do on the web (i.e. buy online, download stuff, read the news, sign up for newsletters, post on bulletin boards, chats, etc.) it seems like you always have to register and leave your email address. Sometimes you don't mind because you trust the company (i.e. Amazon, eBay, etc.), and you believe that they will try to keep your personal information private. Other times, you are not sure. Plus, even the biggest companies make mistakes. What do you do?
If you don't actually need to receive emails or confirmations from the website, you can try BugMeNot. But sometimes you do need to create an account to receive a message or a service, for example:
*.order confirmations from an online purchases,
*.coupons, rebates or other promotional offers,
*.picture sharing services,
*.social networking or dating services,
*.online games or gaming,
*.newsletters, bulletin boards, discussion groups, or
*.domain name registrations. (This last one is guaranteed to get you SPAM.)
Now, instead of sharing your real email address, or even your "SPAM" email address, you can leave a disposable email address.

CREATING A DISPOSABLE EMAIL ADDRESS

There are many websites that allow you to create disposable/temporary email addresses like Mailinator, GuerrillaMail, AirMail, FakeInbox but I recommend Gishpuppy because of it's ability to create different email addresses when signing up in different websites and it also gives you a simple temporary email (e.g username@gishpuppy.com) which you can use offline (to give out to friends, family etc). All these temporary emails are fowarded to your real email address so that when you receive new mails through them, they will automatically be sent to your real email address.

HOW GISHPUPPY WORKS

With GishPuppy, you can easily create a different GishPuppy email each time you register on the web. You can also cancel GishPuppy emails whenever you want, or set them to automatically expire after a certain amount of time. This is important because if that GishPuppy email "accidentally" gets in the hands of SPAMMERs, you can cancel it without affecting anyone else. Your private email is safe, and all your other web registrations are still available.

SIGN UP FOR A GISH PUPPY ACCOUNT HERE


Stay tunned for more. In my next post, I am going to drop top 10 disposable email sites.

 

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