OT: How to send an email anonymously ...

[Bob Elzer]

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
Now your neighbor knows they are on to  him, if he proceeds, and he is in
the wrong, then it's his own fault.

Email sent contains the IP address from where it is sent, so don't connect
to the new one from your house.

And don't use your real name as the new email address or he will figure out
it is you. :-P

This way you haven't done any thing illegal and haven't misrepresented
yourself as the HOA.
 On Apr 30, 2015 3:19 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> Every day, I receive email messages sent to me from fake sender email
> addresses, even spam garbage supposedly sent to me from my own email
> address.  How do they do that?
>
> While I have never done this before, I now have a need to do send an
> email completely anonymously (preferably using our homeowner association
> email address ;) and would like to know how this can be done safely and
> not illegally.
>
> To briefly explain, we have a neighbor who has poured the foundation to
> build a structure in his back yard (without obtaining a building permit)
> and if he should proceed, this non-compliant structure will cause him
> even greater expense and hardship if he is not prevented from proceeding.
> The size of the foundation makes it very obvious that the structure is
> not in compliance with either city building codes or HOA requirements.
>
> Needless to say, we want to avoid causing hard feelings with our
> neighbor, so we would like to be able to alert the city authorities
> *anonymously* in order to protect our neighbor from continuing and ending
> up with very costly consequences.
>
> Regrettably, our home owner's association has taken the position that
> they will indeed take the necessary corrective actions, including
> notifying the city building code department, once the building is built
> and visible from the street; however, they say that they will not take
> any action until the building is built and a "visible" violation has
> actually been committed.  How stupid is that?
>
> So, my question is, how can I send an email to the city building code
> enforcement department to alert them of the homeowner's failure to obtain
> a building permit so that the email will appear to be from our homeowner
> association?
>
> I have already spoken to them by phone, but they will not take any action
> until they receive a formal "complaint" via their online input form which
> requires submitting the name and contact information of whoever is filing
> the complaint.  They say that such reports are best and usually filed by
> HOAs and not by neighbors, to avoid needless conflicts.
>
> Obviously, I could just wait until my neighbor has spent all the money to
> build the structure and then have a prolonged legal action to force him
> to tear it down, but how much better to protect him from all that
> needless pain and expense?
>
>
>
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