Burner Email

What a burner email is, and what it is not

A burner email is an address you create for one website and burn afterwards. It belongs to nobody: no name, no phone number, no recovery address, nothing that points back to you. The address at the top of this page is already a burner – copy it, paste it into the form, and read the reply in the inbox below. When the site has what it wanted, the address expires, and the link between you and that site ends with it.

It is also worth saying what a burner email is not. It is receive-only: mail comes in, nothing goes out, so it is not a tool for sending anonymous messages, and it cannot be used to write under someone else’s name – that would be spoofing, and this service is built so that it cannot do it. A burner is a shield for your identity in other people’s databases, not a costume.

How to make a burner email in three steps

1. Take the address this page made for you. A burner email generator does not need a form: the address exists the moment the page loads, and the copy button puts it on your clipboard. If you want a different domain, open the domain picker and create one there.
2. Use it for exactly one sign-up. Paste it into the registration form, the newsletter box or the trial gate, and treat that address as belonging to that one site. Nothing else you do online is attached to it.
3. Read the confirmation here, then let it burn. The inbox on this page refreshes on its own, and the verification email opens in the browser. The mailbox lives 24 hours; delete it earlier if you are done sooner, or make a fresh burner for the next site.

People search for a burner gmail and end up here, and the detour is telling: a new Gmail account asks for a phone number and a recovery address, which is the opposite of a burner – the “anonymous” account is tied to your real identity twice before you have used it once. How to make a burner email without that? Skip the account. A burner email address here has no phone, no recovery contact and no owner on record.

One burner email address per website

What makes a burner work is not the throwing away but the separation: one address per site. Reusing the same burner across ten sign-ups builds the same kind of profile you were trying to avoid, only under a different name. A separate address each time keeps the doors between those sites closed.

• A leak names the leaker. When spam starts arriving at an address you only ever gave to one shop, you know exactly who sold or lost it. With one shared address, you can only guess.
• You drop one, not everything. Delete the burner that went bad and the flow of spam stops that second; every other sign-up keeps working, because they never shared an address.
• Nothing to correlate. Data brokers and breach dumps join records by email address. If your address at the forum, the shop and the newsletter are three different burner emails, there is no common key, and three profiles stay three strangers.

Several burner emails can be open at the same time, as many as your plan allows, and you switch between them from the address selector. The History on this page lists the recent ones, so a burner you need again can be reactivated for another 24 hours instead of being recreated.

What a burner email hides, and what it does not

A burner email keeps three things out of a website’s database: your real email address, and with it your name and phone number, which are attached to that address somewhere. The site gets a working mailbox that receives its code and then disappears; it learns nothing about who was behind it and has no thread to pull on later. That is the whole promise, and it is a useful one – but it stops there.

• It does not hide what you type. If you enter your real name, date of birth or street address into the form, the site has them, burner or not.
• It does not hide your IP address or your browser. The website you visit still sees the connection you came from, the same way it would with any address.
• It does not hide that you were there. An email burner is about the inbox, not about invisibility: the site knows someone signed up; it just cannot tell that the someone was you.

So a burner email is not a VPN and does not replace one. The two do different jobs and combine well: the VPN hides where you connect from, the burner hides who gets the mail. Use the burner for the identity part, and be honest with yourself about the rest of the form.

Burner email vs. burner phone

Most people arrive at the idea from the phone side. A burner phone is a cheap handset or a prepaid SIM you use for a while and throw away, so that the number cannot be traced to the person holding it. A burner email is the same idea applied to the inbox: an address that stands in for you, does its job and is discarded, with nothing linking it to your real accounts.

The two cover different ground. A burner phone is for calls, texts and the services that insist on SMS verification; it costs money and needs a shop. A burner mail address is for everything that asks for an email – and that is most of the web: registrations, downloads, trials, forum accounts, contest forms. It costs nothing and takes a second. And you never need a phone number to get one here: the address on this page was created with no number, no SIM and no account at all.

Burner email, burner mail, email burner – and the pages next door

Call it a burner email, a burner mail, a burner email address, an email burner or burner emails in the plural – the search terms differ, and the address at the top of this page is the answer to all of them. This page is about identity: one address per site, nothing tied to you. If your worry is mainly spam in your real inbox, the Disposable Email page takes that angle. If you need an address for exactly one sign-up and never again, see Throwaway Email. Temp Mail is the general 24-hour temporary address, 10 Minute Mail is for a code you expect in the next minute, and the Fake Email Generator on the home page is where the whole service starts.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Is a burner email anonymous?

As far as the website is concerned, yes: the address carries no name, no phone number and no link to your real inbox, and no account was created to get it. It is not anonymity in the network sense – the site still sees your IP address and whatever you type into its form. For that part you would combine it with a VPN.

2. How long does a burner email address last?

24 hours from the moment it appears, unless you delete it earlier. When it expires, the mailbox and every message in it are gone. If you need it back, the History on this page can reactivate it for another 24 hours.

3. Can I make a burner email without a phone number?

Yes, and that is the point. The address on this page was created with no phone, no recovery email and no registration. A burner that asks for your number before it hands you an address is not a burner.

4. Burner email or burner phone: what is the difference?

A burner phone is a throwaway number for calls and SMS; a burner email is a throwaway address for everything that asks for an email. The phone costs money and needs a SIM; the email is free and made in your browser. Most sign-ups only want an email, so the burner email covers most cases on its own.

5. Is a burner email legal?

Yes. Using a temporary address for a sign-up is as legal as using any other address; nobody is obliged to hand a personal inbox to every form on the web. What remains illegal is whatever was illegal before – fraud, harassment, impersonation – and a receive-only burner is a poor tool for any of them, since it cannot send a single message.

6. How many burner emails can I have at once?

As many active mailboxes as your plan allows, each with its own inbox and its own 24 hours; you switch between them from the address selector. The free plan is enough for one address per site in an ordinary week; the PRO plan adds more active mailboxes for people who go through dozens.

7. Can I use a burner email to sign up for Gmail or Google?

For signing up to other services with a burner instead of your Gmail – yes, that is exactly what it is for. A burner Gmail account itself is a different thing: Google asks for a phone number and a recovery address when you create one, which ties the new account back to you, and this page does not create Google accounts. It gives you an address that needs neither.

8. What happens to a burner email after it expires?

The mailbox closes, its messages are deleted, and the address stops receiving. Nothing is forwarded anywhere, because this service does not forward. If the site sends a second confirmation later, reactivate the address from the History and it collects mail for another 24 hours.