Email Secrets

Do you ever wish you could send an email anonymously? Would you like to send mail with a date in the past or in the future? Would you like to send email that automatically deletes itself after your recipient reads it? For the average user of Microsoft Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail or even Gmail, these feats are impossible. Would you believe us if we told you tech-savvy geeks could do all that and more?

Sending mail via the Internet did not exist twenty years ago, and email has revolutionized the way we communicate with each other. It is not simply a substitute for a telephone call or a letter, but a completely new class of interaction between people. We had to learn a new mail writing etiquette that differs from anything that came before it. If technology leaves you behind when it comes to interacting via the web, you might lose out in terms of both business and social opportunities.

Power users of email know a few tricks that the average surfer might not. Before we get to the secrets, we have to start with the basics. What are you using for email? Gmail sets the standard now, not your old and slow desktop software. Move on to a web based solution, and while you are at it, open up multiple accounts. No one has just one email address anymore. We use sometimes use fake names to remain anonymous and separate accounts for business and leisure activities. Most high volume email users have a fake mail account set up to capture spam, which they give out when they don’t know or trust the person asking for an email address.

Everyone living in the modern world of identity theft should know about sending mail anonymously. You can look up how to use a remailer to strip your messages of identifying characteristics, yet still get a reply back to your inbox. If you have ever used Craigslist, you have used an anonymous remailing service. If you do not think you require heightened levels of security, you might start out by simply using a fake name to sign up for an online email account. It is not anonymous, but for some people remaining under a pseudonym is good enough.

Services that allow you to use the more advanced techniques for getting more out of email are not widely available, but they exist. Right now, you can easily find and use a prank email service to send fake messages to your unsuspecting friends and colleagues. FakeSend.com allows you to edit the “To” and “From” sections of an email as you wish. Many services include a line at the bottom of each message mentioning that it comes from a fake email website, Fake Send doesn’t make you include that. Its optional here. Some sites allow you to edit the “To” and “From” fields as well as the time the message states that you sent it. Keep in mind that you are not exempt from legal ramifications, and should never attempt to defraud anyone with email, or send anonymous, threatening messages, even as a joke.

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