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July 18, 2019, 08:29:33 AM
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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.
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July 18, 2019, 09:16:20 AM
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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.
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July 18, 2019, 07:35:43 PM
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Don't use email for almost everything, setup an email for corporate use, for personal use and for stuffs like bounties.

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July 18, 2019, 11:55:35 PM
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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.

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.

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July 22, 2019, 07:39:15 AM
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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.

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July 22, 2019, 05:28:17 PM
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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.

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.

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July 22, 2019, 09:43:36 PM
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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.


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.
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July 23, 2019, 02:26:15 PM
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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

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