[alligator]

Does anyone know how to surf the web or send e-mails anonymously? Don't go off thinking I'm some kind of nut, I really just want to send an e-mail to our city about a neighbor that I'm pretty sure is breaking about 100 laws. I just don't want anyone to know it was me. This got me thinking about anonymous e-mail (not just a throw-away account, but fully IP anonymous).

[PurpleGiant]

There are anonymous email sites out there. However wouldn't it just be easier to send from a disposable email account, on a net cafe computer?

[alligator]

I suppose I could go to the local library. I was hoping to find a way to make my computer a net safe computer. I could also mail a regular letter with no return address.

[ghporter]

Most of the time annonymous emails are disregarded-it's so easy to drop fraudulent "tips" that just about nobody pays any attention. Annonymous postal mail is almost as easy to disregard, for the same reason.

Go to the local police office and tell the desk sergeant what you think your neighbor is doing-and that you'd like to remain annonymous. That may not be possible; you'll probably have to file a complaint to allow the police to get started, but unless your neighbor is building terrorist weapons using proceeds from his crack distribution business, you're most likely safe in reporting him.

Keep in mind that your "lawfulness" will be brought into the equation, so if you're raising two pot plants on the back porch, you'd better get rid of them BEFORE you report a neighbor raising 200 pot plants...this is something that some individuals just never figure out, even after they're convicted.

[jokell82]

Originally Posted by ghporter

Keep in mind that your "lawfulness" will be brought into the equation, so if you're raising two pot plants on the back porch, you'd better get rid of them BEFORE you report a neighbor raising 200 pot plants...this is something that some individuals just never figure out, even after they're convicted.

Uh, no. Reporting someone for illegal activity does not expose yourself at all. Now if you invite the cops into your home to take a statement and the pot plants are in the window, you have a problem. But simply reporting someone else gives the police no right to search your home...

[SSharon]

It doesn't give them a right to search your home, but I think he means that while the cops are next door "destroying" the pot plants (or saving them as evidence, whatever), they are likely to see into your yard. Then if they see them, you may have some issues.