Russian Prosecutor General Blocks AnonymousEmail Anonymous Email Service

While monitoring the registry of banned websites, we discovered two anonymous email services listed there: anonymousmail.me and anonymousemail.me. The first service has already been removed by its hosting provider, while the second is a well-known online resource that allows users to send emails anonymously without registering on the site. Emails can be sent with or without attachments. For replies, users can provide their own email address, but if they choose not to, as the service owners put it, “it becomes a one-way message.”

The Prosecutor General’s Office has the authority to block websites without a court order if they are found to be distributing extremist, terrorist, or riot-inciting materials. In the case of AnonymousEmail, the issue most likely relates to false bomb threats, which frequently appear in news reports.

This resource has been among the most frequently mentioned anonymous email services in industry media since at least 2015. Earlier this year, the supervisory agency blocked the temporary email service Dropmail, and before that, a Telegram bot for working with emails called Etlgr, as well as secure email services like ProtonMail, Cock.li, Tutanota, CryptoHeaven, SaluSafe, AnomimousSpeech, Vistomail, and Tempr.email. As reported by the media, such blockings have not stopped either extremism or false bomb threats. Moreover, ProtonMail expressed its willingness to cooperate with law enforcement within the framework of Swiss law, where it is registered, but such cooperation never took place. The company also called Russian authorities’ claims of regular government requests “inaccurate.” Incidentally, the contact email for AnonymousEmail is registered with ProtonMail.

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