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by nnnnni 4389 days ago
Hello, my name is Guy Incognito. My email address is gincog@example.com.

Unless it requires you to click a confirmation link or something similar to that, just use a fake address at one of the example.TLD domains.

If they DO require confirmation, use mailinator or a similar service.

1 comments

Catch 22 there: you have to be able to access mailinator.com in order to generate a throwaway email.
Not with mailinator. You just choose a username and it gets sent there. No need to go to mailinator.com first.
Requiring email confirmation assumes the fact that the user can already connect to the Internet to access his/her email to read the message, throwaway account or not, so that wouldn't work too well...
Connect with your phone long enough to confirm?
Possible, but never seen free wifi actually do that.