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disposable email

disposable email

A Web-based email service that lets anyone create and use a temporary email address. For free reports and software, websites often require users to sign in with a valid email address. The site then emails a validation code to that address to authorize the download, but the address is often sold and winds up in a spam list.

Disposable email services such as www.Mailinator.com only receive mail. Anyone can use the Mailinator domain along with any made-up username as long as they expect a quick reply. Depending on the service, every message is discarded after as little as 10 minutes or as much as a couple hours.
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You can avoid all this by creating disposable email addresses.
Using a dedicated disposable email service, according to Murphy, also isn't completely secure because people at the service's website could view your emails, and if they're bad guys, they could even lock you out of your account by resetting your password.
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Users can now create a disposable email address if they don't want to give out their primary address.
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