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harizen

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Quote from: ONEnergy on July 15, 2019, 05:28:14 AM

Scammers are always active and your e-mail is one of the data they like the most to get easy target.
Also be careful with your other social media accounts.

Not just the scam thing but I really do hate posting my email in public because of spam emails concern.

Most of those are mostly related to the advertisement - in general.

Good thing nowadays, we are now in the technology where filtering email is way much more enhanced by email providers*. Back then, even obvious spam is breaching the Inbox folder.

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Quote from: bernardos on July 15, 2019, 09:29:24 AM

Just use different emails for different purposes.

This is the right answer. One email for important personal reasons (banking, tax, bills, etc). One email for social/spammy personal reasons (friends, social media if you are that way inclined, Netflix, etc). One email for work. One email for crypto exchanges. One email (or throwaway email) for this forum. Throwaway emails for everything altcoin, ICO, bounty, airdrop, related.

Given that the majority of new altcoins are outright scams, you have no idea what these people are doing with the details you give them. It goes without saying you should never undergo KYC, but even your email address can be valuable. With very minimal searching you can find databases of crypto-related email addresses for sale, which scammers will use to target you. 2FA, while obviously better than just a password, is still not foolproof.

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Just use different emails for different purposes. Never mix private and financial information with things like online forums, even bitcointalk, airdrops, exchanges and whatever else you might be into like social media... There are so many free email clients that it is easy to create different emails for the different purposes you have.

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Quote from: OasisDre on July 15, 2019, 07:43:10 AM

There are ways to get your email secured without getting exposure for scammers,we have google authentication and with this there is no way scammers can jailbreak your email unless they get hold of your phone and your google auth password

Still, even with 2FA on your account, it's definitely still a lot safer to not have your email lying around on the internet on a dozen lists that was collected from airdrops. Even with 2FA, social engineering attacks are still fairly possible(depending on how incompetent the customer support is).

I'd go with DdmrDdmr's advice and use multiple emails.

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Quote from: OasisDre on July 15, 2019, 07:43:10 AM

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The issue is not only that someone may try to hack your email account, but also that you become more easily a target for malpractices such as phising with a crypto context (which you may be more receptive to). They may also gather more information about you by investigating the places you’ve used your email in an open context, thus allowing for more narrowed down attacks on you.

If things do not go that far, it is likely that your email account will be spammed from there onwards.

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There are ways to get your email secured without getting exposure for scammers,we have google authentication and with this there is no way scammers can jailbreak your email unless they get hold of your phone and your google auth password

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You should also create an email just for bounties and airdrops and those stuff. An email that you never read anything lol

Many people use their personal email for that. And this is really too much exposure.

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People are keep on posting E-mails on a public threads. There is no rule you need to post your e-mail here to be eligible for any bounty or airdrop or anything else.
my advice: if you post you're e-mail than cover it only revealing first few letters and not whole address.

Scammers are always active and your e-mail is one of the data they like the most to get easy target.
Also be careful with your other social media accounts.

Be aware and Stay safe.

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