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Most people here surely know "BountyDetective" because he manages a lot of campaigns, when we register he will definitely be asked to fill in an Email: (in form)
"Email addresses will be hidden, and won't be used for any spam / promotional actions. Emails are to verify users when comparing data with projects own data."

But in fact they publish our emails in spreadsheet, is this what is called professional ??? We know that email is privacy and not for publication.
How do you think?

I actually have no problem with email publications because i use a separate email for bounties. But in a general and open view, it is wrong, several spam messages are always sent to me, and i already marked them as spam, so it never troubles my inbox no more.

For newbies, i implore you to do the same, never use your exchange or personal email for Bounties, get an alternative email for Bounties, an alternative email for exchanges so you can always be safe to a certain extent. Remember, never share private information about your email, exchanges or crypto currency wallet to a 3rd party

This concern should be directed to BountyDetective itself, so you could get their own views too and for amendment to be made, because it not proper. Letting them know the dangers attached to it will be of utmost importance.
If they are not told, the mistake will continue to repeat itself until participants who expose their sensitive emails begin to fall victim.
So, OP, or anyone can pas it across to the for correction.

in which campaign you find it ? redirect it to bounty detective team about this problem, i am ever complain about this and they promised will edit it soon . but unfortunately its not yet , maybe we must we remind them again about this concern so our privacy could protected and no spam mail come to our inbox.

I guess on 🔴[BOUNTY DETECTIVE]🔴LUDENA PROTOCOL - 24 ETH REWARD POOL 🔴 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5250950.0) because @OP is joining that campaign.


For OP have you contacted BountyDetective (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2695747) about this issue before creating this thread? Also you can submit your complaint in their complaint form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQJKr3Fk3TlpUAHMWd6TZ1xQQ3VadfxmsU-ecHn9tzv4CWzA/viewform)

Using personal information (e.g. email, phone number) in Bounties or unknown project is dangerous, your identity can be used by fraudster to scam people... it will make the scammers stay undetected. You need to separate your email for personal use, business, and bounties... or you can use temporary emails (e.g. Yopmail).

Read : Why KYC is extremely dangerous – and useless (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5221497.0)

this is big problem they should hide the email address of any bounty participants its possible that some one will collect all of the email address sell and use that for other kind promotion.  You should ask the manager to mandatory hide your personal email address because its very important for every one.

If manager don't act with that complain then, forget about participating in the bounty manage by that manager.

Someone has already created a good suggestion about that and it looks like what you need to do to ask them directly and maybe there were some changes in the rules. The BD is really active giving response to the member who has asked them about a lot of questions related to the campaign.

I am also curious why they need email addresses for just bounty campaigns?
What is/are the use of an email address?
If they are asking, then they have something to do with it, it is just like before when the airdrop happened around bull run 2017-2018, you need to fill out some forms before you can get the airdropped token, for sure most of them are just farming email addresses that got interested in cryptocurrency

Bounty detective aren't professionals, they are trying hard to be, you can just tell them how unwise it is to show email address in spreadsheet and I'm sure they will adjust because bounty detective team always works in favour of their bounty hunters

This is why email should not be included or hide. Your right OP, this should be hide by the manager as much as possible no details should be shown on sheet. I like my campaign now, cause they only display the eth address used by participants. There is no way scammer can track your identity aside from the eth address you used.

Better avoid some campaigns or warn most manager so they can change their style about it.

When joining bounties do not use your private email address, always create a separate email address for bounties and airdrops, it's certain that spammers will start sending stupid mails to you and even Phishing mails, you should get in touch with BM and make them see reasons

Don't blame bounty detective, they might not see this as a threat for the email owners, they listen to bounty hunters issue that's why I like bounty detective team, please just try to tell them what they are doing wrong and they will fix instantly

It always better to not use your main email for crypto. This will save you from spam

I guess this thread was moved from altcoins sections to Reputation and that is why the large number of replies.

OP, you can either of the following:

1. Use a secondary email for signing up for bounties. Do not use your personal email or work email.
2. Ask BountyDetective for modifying his work so that the email would not be published in the public spreadsheet.

Point is that email gathering and bulk email spamming is a normal marketing method, so option 1 is always better from your side.

The purpose of collecting your email address is obvious. They will either be leaked, sold to advertising spammers, or they themselves will spam the hell out of your email addresses. Like most members have said, never use your primary email for such crap bounties and ICOs.

And No, what they did isn't professional.

It is a bad practice indeed, to reveal email address of bounty campaign participants for many reasons (you might get spam or malware links etc)
With that being said, have you contacted anyone from Bounty Detective and  asked them about that issue (it can be sorted easily, basically just one click of the mouse) and another thing, do they reveal email address on all of their bounty campaign spreadsheets , or that was just the case of the bounty campaign you joined?

He/they uses this forum for managing bounties so if there are concerns relating to it I think it's just good to know his/their opinions about the matter, and besides the thread has already been created. This isn't professional and they should not continue the practice.

Have you contacted the campaign manager? If BountyDetective said that they will not make email list public, I think it was a mistake from their side. You can contact with them. It's of course not a good practise since for their mistake, the list may go to a lot of spammer.
However, I think you should use throwaway email for such purpose of activities. Why would you even use your regular email here?

I don't even know why an email address is required to join a bounty campaign!
I don't see how it can be used to detect cheaters, creating a new email is totally free and won't take more than 2 minutes.

can you, please, add the link of the topic from where this sentence was taken.

Probably, it's an innocent mistake and he just forgot to remove or hide the emails' column. Contact him and let him know about it.

I have looked through the tables of the latest bounty that this manager maintains. I didn't find any information about the emails there. Perhaps this was a requirement of the project itself and not the fault of the manager. Sometimes after the end of the bounty, notifications are sent to e-mails. Perhaps this required email. And of course, I'm not defending anyone, I just look at things positively. You should always be very suspicious and not trust your personal information and email to everyone. In each case, it is sufficient to create a separate email address and a separate password. This will protect you from many problems.

Good saying but in my own thoughts I will advice you using an alternate email and ETH wallet address to things you do online. I don't think I have a view of my email on the spreadsheet probably give us a picture to which spreadsheet your email appears on.

Like this: https://pasteboard.co/JjDOMoh.jpg

You can find it on all bounty campaign forms that they manage

https://i.imgur.com/wh139VT.png

Yes maybe they forgot it for now but I will keep checking all the campaigns they manage for the next few weeks. if they do that again, I think they are unprofessional.
Besides why asking for an email address if the token will be sent to participant's wallet, unless participant has to register website to receive payment, then I think it's okay to asking participant's email address
Btw, I already sent them message on telegram and now email column has been hidden

As far as I remember, most bounty campaigns require an email address. And sometimes I also saw a column with email in spreadsheets. But for me personally, this is not a problem as I use a separate email address for bounties.

Then what OP experienced was probably just a mistake from someone on their team and not the standard practice, to reveal bounty hunters email. In my opinion, if that happens best is to contact their team immediately and tell them to sort that out.

From what I saw, in most bounty campaigns they do require email address. I guess it serves a another sort of verification, as bounty hunters probably have to register on the  project website using the same email. address. But yeah, people shouldn't use their main address for that purpose.

@OP, why are you getting too much bothered? Either use fake emails or masked email addresses to sign up in those bounties, that way your privacy will also be preserved.

And to bounty managers, I urge you to keep your words intact and don't let users complain about you because this will only downgrade your reputation for not following your own rules. Please hide email addresses of users as people might get offended due to the fact that you guys do promise that their email addresses will remain hidden.

actually I'm not have problem with it but I just feel sorry for newcomers or newbies who are still using their main email because surely they will receive lots of spam or hacker links in their emails

That's would be really wise advice mate, because as a bounty hunter we never have to need to reveal our identity by providing our main email instead of that we have to create another email for the bounty campaigns.