<p dir="ltr">Go to a free WiFi hotspot, create a new gmail account. Send your neighbor an email explaining what you told us. Say you heard it from someone at the HOA <br>
Now your neighbor knows they are on to him, if he proceeds, and he is in the wrong, then it's his own fault.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Email sent contains the IP address from where it is sent, so don't connect to the new one from your house.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And don't use your real name as the new email address or he will figure out it is you. :-P</p>
<p dir="ltr">This way you haven't done any thing illegal and haven't misrepresented yourself as the HOA. <br>
</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 30, 2015 3:19 PM, <<a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Every day, I receive email messages sent to me from fake sender email<br>
addresses, even spam garbage supposedly sent to me from my own email<br>
address. How do they do that?<br>
<br>
While I have never done this before, I now have a need to do send an<br>
email completely anonymously (preferably using our homeowner association<br>
email address ;) and would like to know how this can be done safely and<br>
not illegally.<br>
<br>
To briefly explain, we have a neighbor who has poured the foundation to<br>
build a structure in his back yard (without obtaining a building permit)<br>
and if he should proceed, this non-compliant structure will cause him<br>
even greater expense and hardship if he is not prevented from proceeding.<br>
The size of the foundation makes it very obvious that the structure is<br>
not in compliance with either city building codes or HOA requirements.<br>
<br>
Needless to say, we want to avoid causing hard feelings with our<br>
neighbor, so we would like to be able to alert the city authorities<br>
*anonymously* in order to protect our neighbor from continuing and ending<br>
up with very costly consequences.<br>
<br>
Regrettably, our home owner's association has taken the position that<br>
they will indeed take the necessary corrective actions, including<br>
notifying the city building code department, once the building is built<br>
and visible from the street; however, they say that they will not take<br>
any action until the building is built and a "visible" violation has<br>
actually been committed. How stupid is that?<br>
<br>
So, my question is, how can I send an email to the city building code<br>
enforcement department to alert them of the homeowner's failure to obtain<br>
a building permit so that the email will appear to be from our homeowner<br>
association?<br>
<br>
I have already spoken to them by phone, but they will not take any action<br>
until they receive a formal "complaint" via their online input form which<br>
requires submitting the name and contact information of whoever is filing<br>
the complaint. They say that such reports are best and usually filed by<br>
HOAs and not by neighbors, to avoid needless conflicts.<br>
<br>
Obviously, I could just wait until my neighbor has spent all the money to<br>
build the structure and then have a prolonged legal action to force him<br>
to tear it down, but how much better to protect him from all that<br>
needless pain and expense?<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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