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We give out our email address most often either to register for one thing or the other or to partake in bounty airdrops, etc we really don't have full control of who or what has access to that information.

Not to long ago I got an email from an unknown email address sending me a link to verify my account am sure of not creating even the user name of the account is one which I don't remember imputing.

The verify you account and start earn airdrops would surly have entice me if I where to be a newbie with zero or minimal knowledge but that was not the case.
I quickly did the needful by first blocking the sender address and deleting the message
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It's essential to always be careful with what you click or verify on your email no matter how genuine or enticing it looks ones you did not apply or register for it delete and block the sender

Thanks for sharing your story. I would say this is common sense to not follow any mail links from mails you dont know the sender of. Such phishing attacks are nowadays very good, often only recognized by suspicious URLs, a lot of people are falling for such attacks each and every day

There is always an "unsubscribe" button at the bottom of every email message you receive.
I usually use it and it much more effective in keeping my Email cleaner and sometimes you also get the chance to report the abusers or spammers as you are in the process of unsubscribing

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There is sense in your contribution it's still all in the same line that is keeping your email safe. Well there is no harm in apply all the means necessary effectively.
And also one can keep a particular email for a specific purposes and try to have a small dairy as to what, where and time you sent your email address out

I guess there are workers there that is tasked to collect email addresses from bounty participants and everyone who post their emails here in the forum.

Just unsubscribe, delete or ignore these kind of spam emails. You don't have to spend your time dealing with any of those especially if you know that you didn't signed up for any of them. They got it somewhere that collected or you signed up with that email before.

I have two main email addresses that I use, one for more official things like registrations on exchanges (also the inbox that my Bitcointalk account is linked to), and one for other more casual things that I register for like any airdrops or bounties I might take part in. That way my primary, more official mailbox stays spam-free and I don't have to go through and clear out spam and phishing emails on it too often. A bit more complex than having a single email address, but it's been working for me for some time.

Instead to block all suspicious emails it's more effective to allow only a listed sender

On every legitimate email. Spammers and hackers often forget to put that on their email template.
This is great thing to loot at when veryfing email.

One way to deal with this is to avoid giving out your main email address to begin with. If you are signing up for random one-off stuff eg. get access to articles on a website, use temporary email providers eg. https://temp-mail.org/en/ (https://temp-mail.org/en/)

Or even better, if you have your own website, you can create multiple one-off email addresses for the purpose of signing up and then delete them after use. For example, if your website is www.example.com, then you can create amazon@example.com for buying shoes from Amazon.com, restaurant_booking@example.com for booking restaurants online etc. Redirect all these emails to your main email account so that you won't miss a thing. When too much spam is coming in from any one account, just delete that particular email account eg.amazon@example.com

Another good thing about creating separate emails for sign-ups is that you get to trace the source of the leaks. For example, if you used shoe_shop@example.com for the sole purpose of buying shoes from a particular site and end up receiving junk from another website, you would know who leaked your email address.

This would avoid clogging your main email with rubbish. While you can always hit unsubscribe on rubbish that is coming in, from experience these spammers send emails from multiple addresses so you need to constantly unsubscribe from multiple emails which is a hassle. And would spammers be so kind as to remove you from their email list just cause you selected unsubscribe? If anything, the act of unsubscribing would let them know you actively check that email account (ie. it is not dormant) and they would continue sending stuff from other websites.

The best thing to still do is to have another email address for your subscriptions. Through this, you wouldn't be bothered by those spam email when you're using your main email address. Thus, there would be no irritating useless notifications.

You should never do this. All it does is to confirm that the mail address is valid, and that you read spam mail. This probably increases the value of you address by 100x or so, and will lead to an increase in spam in the future. Just delete the message, and block the sending address if you want to.The last action may be a waste of time, as the sending address is probably a throwaway.

For some reason, after I registered on some crypto related websites and ICOs, my spam folder in mailbox is never getting empty. Huge amount of airdrops, ICO announcements or PnD groups are trying to spam you. Seems like there is a database of crypto related e-mails and quite many people can use it.
IMHO the best way is to create a new email for all crypto related services and don't show anyone your main one.

I never thought on this line and usually I unsubscribe from the list. For next time I will just block them.

One thing that surprise me that how easily we have surrendered our private data to corporations that might be doing data analytics on it.