The web swarms with free webmail providers. You can create a free email address in nearly any country you would need or want to. The data you are providing to the register vary depending on the provider.

You are usually asked to give your nickname or existing email address, your first and last names, age, location, a secret question/answer twosome in case you forget your password, and then it's over - you just have to valid the registration by entering the captcha word.

A captcha (or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a weird-looking text string appearing in weird colors and generously stuffed with camouflage dots, stripes and curves. You usually have to submit it so that the system knows you're a human and not a bot (yeah-yeah, we know it can be bypassed - but that's a different topic :-p )

Now it seems that some providers possess a good sense of humor when it comes to choose the words they use for their captcha:

Of course, this provider is located in a country where computer fraud is a rather palpitating issue.