A burner email in one click

What's a burner email?

A burner email is an address you use once, or for a short time, so your real identity and inbox stay out of it. It's the email version of a burner phone: useful, anonymous, and easy to abandon.

What Poofy asks for

Nothing. We don't ask for your name, phone number or another email address. Creating a burner inbox takes one click, and the address is copied for you.

Burn it, or keep it

Most burner email sites delete inboxes after a few minutes. Poofy lets you choose: ignore the inbox and it simply sits unused, or come back later with its password if a site sends a follow-up email.

Use it responsibly

Burner emails are for privacy, not for harming people. Fraud, harassment and spam are against our Acceptable use policy, and we act on abuse reports.

When a burner email makes sense

• One-off downloads, coupons and trials where you don't want follow-up marketing.
• Public Wi-Fi sign-ups, giveaways and forums that ask for an email for no clear reason.
• Testing a new service before deciding whether it deserves your real address.
• Avoiding data-breach fallout: a burner address has nothing else attached to it, so a leak exposes nothing about you.

What a burner email can't do

It can't send mail, and it isn't the right choice for accounts you'll depend on, like banking, taxes, health or your main work tools. Those use email for password recovery and security alerts, so they belong on a permanent address you control.

Burner email vs a burner phone number

A burner phone number is a different tool. Many services that ask for a phone number reject virtual numbers, and number-based verification is a common route for fraud, so Poofy doesn't offer it. Email is the simpler, safer route for most sign-ups. See how it works in what is temp mail.