Temporary Email from BugMeNot

Many sites have the requirement that you need to signup to access their content. I don’t want to talk about the positive and negative effects of forcing users to signup before they can access information on a website but I would like to point out that some websites use the signup process solely to gain a valid email address from the user which can be sold to questionable companies. A temporary email address on the other side is a way to be able to signup to those websites without revealing one of your private email addresses.

BugMeNot, the service that is mostly known for its database of usernames and passwords to various sites on the internet, is offering a temporary email address service as well. You need to use a email in the form name@bugmenot.com when you create an account on another website. BugMeNot collects the emails and keeps them for a maximum of 24 hours. Just visit the disposable email service from BugMeNot and enter the name that you have selected during account creation into the form field.

All emails that have been send to BugMeNot in the last 24 hours are then displayed. If you use a common name such as test@bugmenot.com or similar you will probably see more than one email. You should also remember that everyone is able to access the email for your account confirmation as well and is able to force the website that you signed up with to send another password.

This means that you should only use disposable email services if the service is in no way connected to you. Make also sure that you use a password that you do not use normally. So, if you only want to signup to Youtube to be able to upload some videos you could use the service. It is however no good idea to use it to signup to Amazon oder eBay.