Much of the junk email you receive is from spammers who bought or scraped your email address from a website where you registered for membership. Much of the junk email you receive is from spammers who bought
or scraped your email address from a website where you registered for membership.
Most registration-based websites require that you use a legitimate email address;
often, you have to retrieve an email from that address’s inbox to complete
registration.
If you hate the idea of giving your email address to any website that
asks for it and you wish to protect your email address from junk and spam, use
a disposable email address instead.
Web-Based Public Email Addresses
Several services, such as Mailinator (http://mailinator.com) offer
free, public, disposable email addresses. Choose any email name at the
mailinator.com domain — such as goaheadspammer@mailinator.com or yourname@mailinator.com
— and use it to register at a website. Then, visit Mailinator.com to check the public inbox,
Which doesn't require a password.