How To Send An Anonymous Email?

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by superstar, Apr 14, 2011.

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  1. superstar

    superstar Major-Superstar

    My sister wants to send an anonymous email to HR at her work on behalf of her and some fellow ladies who have been discriminated against. It's a serious matter but they would like to be anonymous about it first and see what comes out of it before choosing to go another route.

    How can she send an anonymous email without it being tracked back to her? She's afraid her ISP, IP address, or other confidential information that can uncover them will be visible to track them back. Is there a way by using a specific email client, some sort of web based form, or something?



    Thanks
     
  2. Colemanguy

    Colemanguy MajorGeek

    Easiest bet is payphone, and making a phone call, with out getting into a tricky technical mess.
     
  3. Sgt. Tibbs

    Sgt. Tibbs Ultra Geek

    Easy answer is to log in from the library and create a gmail, yahoo, or hotmail account to send it. She should be aware, however, that most companies will not take an anonymous report of anything seriously. Also, in order to include enough information that the company might know it's legitimate, she'll probably end up including something that would narrow down who it might be from considerably.
     
  4. Rikky

    Rikky Wile E. Coyote - One of a kind

    I don't agree with the approach your sister is taking,if there are multiple parties then you should have no problem making a complaint.I don't think you'll accomplish what you want an anonymous email will just give them grounds to fire your sister if they are vindictive and they may end up losing their jobs anyway,they will have no legal recourse because the email won't be legitimate.

    I think your much better off filing a formal complaint or seeking third party legal advice.
     
  5. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Go old school and write a letter!! Keep a copy for your attorney. ;)
     
  6. Triaxx2

    Triaxx2 MajorGeek

    My advice would be to send it through a lawyer. An e-mail coming through from JohnSmithStein(@)LawyersOffice.com is more likely to be paid attention to than if it comes from ConcernedCitizen565146465421064(@)yahoo.com.

    Stupid forum.... Those should not be real addresses.
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Apr 15, 2011
  7. theefool

    theefool Geekified

    Hence if you were to put (@) or spaces around the @, ye'd not have issues.
     
  8. silas

    silas MajorGeek

    I agree with getting involve with a lawyer before sending the letter. Because Ive seen job places do bad reactions after getting letters like this. So say she sends the letter and gets fired. You got your lawyer there that knows that she was working and is a good worker and just now sent that letter in. So the firing isn't right and she should sue em.
     
  9. oma

    oma MajorGeek

    You say it's a serious matter. Therefore, yes, I'd go with my coworkers to see a lawyer specialized in that sort of thing to see what the best step would be. That is if they're really serious about the matter. Initial consultation should be free? Then take it from there. Of course, their jobs could be at stake if they go ahead with it so they must consider that prior to taking pursuing anything and that also counts for an anonymous letter or from a lawyer.

    That's IMHO
     
  10. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    No but it will mess up the spam harvester bots a hell of alot, they will think they are live addresses and will be added to spam lists, hope its not a real company!


    As for the advice to Superstar then I agree with Rikky and others of seeking legal advice and discrimination is looked at very hard by the legal system and you just have to think of Walmart and the sex discrimination case over pay that they may if they loose the class action suit, could cost them billions.

    Make sure dates, times and conversations and evidence is kept at all times, even if they seem insignificant.

    A random email thats hidden will not do the grievance any good, will actually cause more harm as the company will then start using secretive methods to catch out the suspects they have of sending such email and use leagl disciplinary methods to remove them.
     
  11. Triaxx2

    Triaxx2 MajorGeek

    Well then, anything I can do to help the forum is fine by me.
     
  12. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    +1 neat ;)

    To all... Not that we want everyone posting now random email addresses, if you do I will randomly delete your account ;)
     
  13. gwolf

    gwolf Private E-2

    have you tried anonymous email sender? there are many free ones available online. I have used <snip> and had no problems. But simply do a google search and you will find a bunch of them.
     
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  14. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Four year old thread. :major
     
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