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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, I keep my email on Bitcointalk profile not hidden (and I don't know why). But obviously, it's not my main email, I created this address just for crypto things. I use it for all less important registrations. But fact thst my email address is public means that's spammed seriously - it's full of ads, scams and phishing links. But I don't care about it. I wouldn't never keep my email or phone number in public.

Using separate addresses for crypto is also something I'm recommending to every newcomer. There are some services just collecting mail addresses to sell them and besides from that it's also possible that even a legit service can be hacked and your mail + password gets exposed. Therefore, I'm also recommending to use different passwords for each account. Should a scammer have success to find out your password and you are using it on different websites, all account can be hacked.

And of course for crypto-spam reasons to avoid a huge mess in your main account.

Surprisingly, I don't get any spam on my crypto mail addresses, most spam goes to my personal address which I never used on crypto sites.  ::) ::)

If your mail provider doesn't delete your account if you are inactive for a long period of time, that might not harm. But as far as I know some mail providers are deleting them after a defined time of inactivity like gmx and the same mail address which has been used before is available for a new person. If you are still registered somewhere, that could lead to account hacks if the person is a scammer and tries to reset passwords by using "reset via mail".

But I don't know if mail.ru is doing the same. I think satoshi had a mail from gmx and that was a problem.  :D

Well, I'm still checking this email quite often, so there is no risk thst they may delete my account for inactivity. But probably I should at least change my Bitcointalk email because I'm not feeling 100% safe with this provider.

Ok, if you are checking your mails regularly, that should be safe.  :)
I'm using gmx.de and web.de (they are similar) because they are very popular here in Germany but now switching to Gmail lately if I have to create a new mail address.

I've also tried outlook.com (or live.com) but they've blocked all my accounts without any reason.  :-\

You can read the more safe email.
https://www.digitalunite.com/technology-guides/email-skype/email/email-safety-tips

why you share email public post if not an emergency? you can enable 2step or Authentication proved. all company and service provider upgrade her security. so now directly scammed are difficult.

I was trying to point out that you can become easy target for scammers can easily send you any e-mail with some phishing site or any other data retriever way of getting important data from your computer.

Receiving email spam and phishing attempts is only just the tip of the iceberg though. There could be more dire consequences if you're that type of person that uses one email and one password for everything.

I use throwaway webmail accounts for all the dodgy things I sign up for, because I know some scammers use this information to do targeted phishing attacks. So they will get your email account from the forum and then read all your previous posts linked to that Username to find a service that you use and then try to either hack your account to get access to that service or to send you phishing emails that are related to the services you use.

So if you for example mention something about "Coinbase" in one of your posts, they know you have an account there and then they send emails from fake support accounts that are not linked to Coinbase or URL links to sites that looks like it is going to Coinbase.  ::)

Not every email providers have the 2FA option, even if they did, some of them only have SMS authentication which can be hacked easily using SIM porting in some countries. Though this is not what OP wanted to discuss and I feel that you misread or didn't read it properly tbh.

This is one of reasons why in Profile page, at Forum Profile Information, we have the option: Hide email address from public?
Some people don't know that option or unintentionally to click on the checkbox to activate it, but they don't really know that disclose email publicly might catch more attention from bad guys and their accounts, their identities might be under risks of attacks.

Also pay attention when making screenshot of any dashboard. Many has e-mail as login information at the top. You expose e-mail easily if you are asking for help in some public tread. I saw that many times on telegram, discord ... support channels. Always blur or cut out important data if you share a screen shot.

If there is balance shown also cover information.

I use a gmail account for most online stuff. Google seems to put some work into blocking spam and phishing messages. The downside is that they send their own spam, but at least they put it into its own directory, so it is easy to bulk delete. For my more important emails, I host my own mail servers on my own domains.

Looking over an end of 2018 complete DB profile dump that I’ve got, there were 55.812 profiles at the time that had a visible email with a valid format. That information is public, and may have been made available by users for business reasons in some cases, but likely others followed the will to share on social media of personal data, with the implied risk.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned protonmail here yet. If you're not going to use throw away accounts, you can consider protonmail. It's pretty good in filtering spams.

Don't use email for almost everything, setup an email for corporate use, for personal use and for stuffs like bounties.

This doesn't only apply to threads, which you definitely should not do, since anyone can take that email and try to crack open your exchange/wallet accounts in theory; it also applies to registering accounts on websites of questionable legitimacy.

Ideally, you want to isolate each account that you register with a different email. This way, if one database does get hacked, then your other accounts will remain unaffected. But that is rarely practical, so what I suggest people do is to create at least two emails: one for sites that you trust, and one for sites that are sketchy. Make sure passwords aren't reused.

You may ask why. I don't think you need to go further than looking at the amount of people that reported their Cryptopia accounts constantly getting login attempt notifications last year and early this year (search up the threads on bitcointalk, if you'd like). It is apparent that this is caused by a leak in either Cryptopia's email database, or some other crypto site's in a targeted attempt to crack open their accounts. If you only had one email and it got leaked - you're screwed at worst, and at best you'll have to go through the gruesome process of resetting passwords for every site.

Using different for every account would be difficult to manage especially if you are using different exchange, wallets...
In this case 2FA is good choice make your account more secure. Still it is a good idea to use one e-mail account for the sites where you have some balance on and other e-mail for joining some airdrops, bounties, project dashboards that has no balance.

I don't think one person will use too many exchanges, so it is possible to manage with one exchange, one email to register, and different password for each account.

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Emails are kind of identities, so I don't think we should not display our emails' addresses publicly, that is so risky. If you don't want to disclose your important things, please don't disclose your emails, or store them on Cloud-based storage service.

I do this too. I have an email address for each category. I do read the emails from my bounty address. That is how you keep up to date and get invited again.
I agree with not revealing your email in certain places because scammers or advertises or data sellers collect it so they can email you "special" offers. Basically pollutes the email address with spam and scams.
I don't understand anyone using their personal email. It will really be a mess and they going to get confused.

It will not be dangerous if you are knowledgeable enough that what sent to your email is bad or good. When bad people get your email address, they will find a way to invade by sending links containing malicious code, the information seems to be useful for you but it is actually fraudulent, please Be careful and find out what emails you receive