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Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by cryptoz »

veemjeem wrote: post #68
cryptoz wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have not been able to register a gmail address without a mobile number for about four years.

You can still do it, you just have to do the captcha thing. Here, I created one just now, for you: login/pass: blah44141@gmail.com/mypass125

You're very kind, thank you. But you are still incorrect. I cannot register a gmail myself without entering a phone number. Your "workaround" of a captcha does not exist when I try. Others are talking about country restrictions - I live in Canada, if it makes a difference.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by cdcarter »

nwh wrote: post #63
cdcarter wrote: post #53

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They don't require mobile numbers, and setting up a throwaway gmail takes about a minute, not tied to your identity at all. You don't even have to click and activation link, if you pass the CAPTCHA. That being said, they certainly have IP logs, so make sure to enable Tor.

They've enforced mobile numbers for quite a while now, though I suspect that might be country dependant. I can't sign up for an account without one, through my normal or torified IP (I tried several). http://i.imgur.com/l9diG.png

US based, for me, the form element appears, also with country code pre-filled, but it is not required. Further down there is a CAPTCHA that you can elect to complete or tick a box for phone verification. Strange that it's country dependent!

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by feralmoan »

DanBC wrote: post #75
Roedou wrote: post #72

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Dan, I was looking into anonymous sending options recently. Two quick questions: - "don't mind having to pay"; what might you be willing to spend? $5/month? $50? 2c per email? - "they have to work very hard to get my real identity"; get-a-court-order hard? Or harder than that?

get a court order hard; $5 per month.

Hi, I'm building something just like this called bip.io, throw away email addresses and identity protection are a 'feature' of a wider messaging API (its a glue platform, similar to ifttt or zapier or engineio). We're approaching a stable beta. If you'd like to try out the service, follow us on twitter @bipioapp and we will notify when the gates are open. Realistically about 4-6 weeks away, just putting it out there if you're looking for options...

(oh, and you can use whatever domain you can manage MX records for - its preferable in fact)

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by LiveTheDream »

easy_rider wrote: post #103
vidyesh wrote: post #69

These are the services I use quite often when I need a disposable email id / fake inbox. http://mailinator.com/ http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://www.guerrillamail.com/ http://www.dispostable.com/ http://dudmail.com/ http://getairmail.com/ http://mailcatch.com/en/disposable-email http://spambox.us/ http://www.yopmail.com/en/ https://ssl.trashmail.net/ http://www.fakeinbox.com/ http://www.fakemai…

Thanks for the list! I will add them to our blocklist :) Our business values e-mail destinations where we can actually incite the signed up user with interesting offers, or new product features, instead of sending it into a black hole.

By removing customer's choice to use a blackhole email, I suspect you are much more likely to lose them as a customer, rather than gain a happy customer with a valid email.

If they do go the latter route and give you a real email address, it is really so valuable to you? More likely, your interesting offers will get tagged with the "spam" flag, or auto-deleted by a filter.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by LiveTheDream »

jacobn wrote: post #57
arscan wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a service prevents me from signing up with whatever email address I want, I won't be using it. It's one thing to discourage weak passwords, as that's a common mistake for people that don't know any better. It's another thing altogether to deny signing up with something like this, as they clearly will know the ramifications of doing so.

I have a website that gives freebies (=$$$) to new signups, so allowing throwaway accounts makes people do things like sign up for 100 accounts. Not giving freebies is of course an option, but then there is goodwill lost on that end instead. It sucks both ways. At least I don't spam my users, but they of course only trust that assertion so far and I certainly don't blame them - there seems to have been a significant…

Then just give the freebies to non-throwaway accounts. Now your users still have a choice, and you don't lose any goodwill (obviously, explain that throwaway accounts don't qualify).

This is on the same level as adding a CAPCHA if someone comment looks like spam.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by LiveTheDream »

garrettdimon wrote: post #95
josscrowcroft wrote: post #86

Question for business owners/founders: how do you feel about people signing up for your services with these throwaway email addresses? On the one hand, I respect people's privacy and right to use whatever email address they like. On the other (more relevant) hand - I sometimes need to contact users who violate terms and conditions that their access may be switched off (I'd never do this without contacting them 2-3 ti…

My feelings are that trust is a two-way street. If people don't trust us with their email address, I don't think it's fair for them to expect us to trust them with an account on our service if they provide a fake email address. If they are serious about evaluating our product, they can provide a real email address. If they aren't very serious or inherently don't trust us, then I'm willing to miss the opportunity of h…

Why should a potential customer be willing to trust you with their email address? Perhaps you are very respectful of their privacy, but already their trust has been violated plenty of times by other, less honest companies. "One bitten, twice shy" and all that.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by 4ad »

easy_rider wrote: post #103
vidyesh wrote: post #69

These are the services I use quite often when I need a disposable email id / fake inbox. http://mailinator.com/ http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://www.guerrillamail.com/ http://www.dispostable.com/ http://dudmail.com/ http://getairmail.com/ http://mailcatch.com/en/disposable-email http://spambox.us/ http://www.yopmail.com/en/ https://ssl.trashmail.net/ http://www.fakeinbox.com/ http://www.fakemai…

Thanks for the list! I will add them to our blocklist :) Our business values e-mail destinations where we can actually incite the signed up user with interesting offers, or new product features, instead of sending it into a black hole.

Thanks for the notice. Now I'll add your business to my blacklist of enterprises which I'll never do business with.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by 3825 »

I have a google apps account which runs something like administrator@example.com I put their domain www.suspiciousvendor.com@example.com as my email address when I sign up. I get all emails sent to *@example.com in the google mail archive folder and I can search if I need to

Too bad google discontinued the free option.

Re: Receiveee.com - disposable email address

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Post by piyush_soni »

easy_rider wrote: post #103
vidyesh wrote: post #69

These are the services I use quite often when I need a disposable email id / fake inbox. http://mailinator.com/ http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html https://www.guerrillamail.com/ http://www.dispostable.com/ http://dudmail.com/ http://getairmail.com/ http://mailcatch.com/en/disposable-email http://spambox.us/ http://www.yopmail.com/en/ https://ssl.trashmail.net/ http://www.fakeinbox.com/ http://www.fakemai…

Thanks for the list! I will add them to our blocklist :) Our business values e-mail destinations where we can actually incite the signed up user with interesting offers, or new product features, instead of sending it into a black hole.

So that makes you a spammer. Tell us about your business name, so that we can add it to our blacklist too ;).
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