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How do I send an UNTRACEABLE email???
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One poster found that site in two seconds; quicker than it took you to post the above message.
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It's not uncommon for certain places to want this kind of functionality to promote whistleblowing and other such things. For those raising legality, it's also generally respected by the courts.
I'm pretty sure sites like Wikileaks for instance aim to help ensure confidentiality of sources in this way. Could be worth looking there.
I'm pretty sure sites like Wikileaks for instance aim to help ensure confidentiality of sources in this way. Could be worth looking there.
Couldn't you go to the public library, set up a bogus address, send the email, and be done with it? I know that you are not completely safe, but this would probably be better than doing it from home or something.
To hard to send Spam and get paid for it that way...
As others said, if you are really freaked out about someone finding out....go to a public library or some other place....create an account...and send it from there
Create a new account at any mail site, or use an anonymous/disposable email service.
As long as you aren't threatening to pose any harm to any one, or doing something illegal then no one will bother to trace an email you send.
As long as you aren't threatening to pose any harm to any one, or doing something illegal then no one will bother to trace an email you send.
Perhaps if you explained the purpose of your question, we might have a better tool to recommend.
Anything is traceable. But budgets reduce the likelihood of trying.
If you piss off your neighbor with anonymous email, there's only so much they can do.
If you do it to Apple, the budget increases.
If you do it to the IRS, you're asking for it.
When sending something anonymously, do you trust the service you're using? The free one? The one that just put up a website and promised never to ever tell anybody who you are, collect logs, track it?
Do you trust your ISP to not show that you connected to the anonymous service? How about the upstream ones on up?
I could put up a website and say that I send anonymous email. And then harvest the names and sell them for spam.
If you've got something truly important, there are services for you. If you're trying to screw with somebody, you're wasting your time.
Anything is traceable. But budgets reduce the likelihood of trying.
If you piss off your neighbor with anonymous email, there's only so much they can do.
If you do it to Apple, the budget increases.
If you do it to the IRS, you're asking for it.
When sending something anonymously, do you trust the service you're using? The free one? The one that just put up a website and promised never to ever tell anybody who you are, collect logs, track it?
Do you trust your ISP to not show that you connected to the anonymous service? How about the upstream ones on up?
I could put up a website and say that I send anonymous email. And then harvest the names and sell them for spam.
If you've got something truly important, there are services for you. If you're trying to screw with somebody, you're wasting your time.
Untraceable messages may become traceable if the right people want to know who sent it.
I don't know what the OP wants to send or why he is insisting that it be untraceable, but I did some work for a government agency that I can't mention here a few years back. If it smells bad, they can trace it.
If you set up a library account that is accessed with a card number, that won't do any good. The basic thing this person doesn't understand is TCP/IP. It includes a string identifying the computer that sent the message.
Dale
If you set up a library account that is accessed with a card number, that won't do any good. The basic thing this person doesn't understand is TCP/IP. It includes a string identifying the computer that sent the message.
Dale
This is a good plan, but I recommend wearing a fake moustache. This plan sounds all fine and good, and it seems like it will work no problem, but then you're in the middle of executing it and bam! You get caught. When it all could have been avoided if you'd used the fake moustache.
And, don't forget about the clear nail polish on the tips of your fingers to eliminate the worry about finger prints.
And a trench coat, so you can disappear into the shadows easily should it become necessary.
And when you do all this, make sure to announce to the whole building, "I AM GOING TO SEND AN ANONYMOUS E-MAIL NOW," because if you say that, no one will believe that that is what you'll really be doing.
Are you kidding me? You have to break in after hours. It would be stupid to go during business hours.
Are you kidding me? You have to break in after hours. It would be stupid to go during business hours.
Unless you have a mullet and you face away from the computer. Cuz, you know, business in front, party in the back?
Are you kidding me? You have to break in after hours. It would be stupid to go during business hours.
That's just because you're weak.
You walk in during broad daylight, wave your hand, and say I am not the guy sending anonymous emails.
Then, since it appeared to work on Robot Chicken, wave your hand again and say bring me a taco.
+1 to the fake moustache. I'd even go so far as to recommend a fake beard too. Part of the Patriot Act installed Phase 5 Facial Recognition Scanners in libraries. Those suckers are wicked fast and accurate but the newer model no longer comes with an Expresscard slot.
If you use a proxy server or service such as TOR and then create an email account with fake details and send an email it should be "hard to trace" nothing is "Impossible" to trace though doing this may be enough to stop police from finding out though don't count on the FBI who knows what tricks they have up there sleeve. The Proxy server will hide your IP address making it untraceable to an extent.If I am wrong feel free to correct me.
i dont think it should matter if they can trace ur IP
unless he is using it to threaten someone and they call the cops,
but lets say he does it to prank his friend by sending
Bob,
i have ur garden gnome hostage!
hand over the cupcakes in the backyard
lol
unless he is using it to threaten someone and they call the cops,
but lets say he does it to prank his friend by sending
Bob,
i have ur garden gnome hostage!
hand over the cupcakes in the backyard
lol
yeah if doesn't need it for serious reason what ever but if he wants to hide good enough that the cops possibly wouldn't be able to find him he will have to hide his IP. IP addresses contain information that CAN reveal his location down to the address among other things, and once someone finds his address they can easily find a online phone book or something and gain access to his name as well.
Its actually really easy to trace someone's email and find out where they live and what there name is, who there ISP is and so forth. One of my friends actually paid me 20 dollars one time to trace an email for him lol
This doesn't work because you still have something that tracks your entrance into the TOR as I understand it.
Once inside it's all obfuscated, but then again, I wonder how many TOR sites are actually the Feds just tracking the data that flies by.