Report abuse

We take misuse seriously, but the design of this service limits what we can usefully act on. Reading this first will save you time.

The single most common report

"I received a threatening or fraudulent email from your domain."

This service cannot send email. Addresses here are receive-only and there is no outbound mail path at all. If a message appears to come from our domain, the sender address was forged — which is trivial to do with any domain, and something we cannot prevent from our side beyond the anti-spoofing DNS records we already publish.

To find where such a message actually came from, look at the full message headers, specifically the Received: chain and the authentication results. Those identify the sending server. Report it to that provider, not to us.

What we can act on

• Bulk automated abuse of the service — scripted account farming, scraping, or traffic that degrades availability.
• Illegal content stored in an inbox, where you can give us the specific address. Note that the message has probably already been deleted; we hold nothing beyond 24 hours.
• A specific address being used to abuse your platform. We can block an address or a pattern from receiving mail on request.
• Security vulnerabilities in this site. Please report these privately and give us reasonable time to fix them before disclosing.

What we cannot act on

• Spoofed sender addresses, for the reason above
• Identifying who used a particular address — we hold no account data, no registration and no linkage
• Recovering deleted messages, which do not exist anywhere
• Disputes with a third-party site that rejected one of our domains

Blocking our domains on your own service

If you would rather not accept our addresses at signup, you are entirely free to block them, and you do not need our permission. Before you do, it is worth reading the trade-offs — blocklists reject a lot of legitimate privacy-conscious users and stop very few determined abusers.

How to report

abuse@fake-email.org

Please include:

• What happened, in plain terms
• The specific address or URL involved
• Full message headers, if a message is involved
• Timestamps with a time zone

Law enforcement and legal notices should use the same address and identify the requesting body.