Today, we come across lots of offers from various companies and sites on the internet. Some of them, for obvious reasons, seem dubious. In such situation, it becomes our ultimate need to safeguard our permanent email address. Although we have pioneer companies like Google and Yahoo trying to protect us from spam but some of it makes its way into our mailbox even with the most stringent spam blocks. These mails present to us the perennial problems of viruses, adwares and the like.

To rescue us from this, we have got a few sites that offer to us disposable email addresses, also known as anonymous email addresses. These are easy to set up and manage often requiring no advance registrations.

First of all, we have Mailinator. Mailinator is a hassle-free service to use. Whenever you are signing up for some offer, enter the email as your-email@mailinator.com. You don't have to visit the site for registration. To access the mail, go to the website and enter the address you entered on the site and press 'Go'. Whoa! You can read your mail. This mail gets deleted in 24 hrs so save it if you want to read it later.

Next up, we have MyTrashMail. It is similar to mailinator. Just enter your address as your-email@mytrasmail.com. The procedure to read the mails is also similar. One added advantage is that you can get yourself a secure mail address with a password so that others can't read your mail.

Lastly, there is PookMail. Even though it is used in the same way as the previous two, what caught my eye was the speed with which the site loads. This is perfect for you if you are a narrow band user even though you can use other services too. The same time limit of 24 hrs applies here too.

So, be smart and enhance your security.