Email address exposure in spreadsheet

[Dr.Osh]

I do not see why not hiding email addresses of bounty hunters in the spreadsheet should be a problem. It is one thing to get random mails and it is another thing to want to open them. I get that all the time. The heading is what I look at to know whether to delete them or not. Those not worth my attention I delete at once without reading. The only thing to avoid is not to use an official or important email address for bounty to avoid junk mails. Create a new mail for bounties.

it shouldn't be that big of a deal. However, for some bounty hunters, or those who use their main email, it will be very annoying. we don't know what to send in the email we have. however, it could be phishing or spam.

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[Maestro75]

I do not see why not hiding email addresses of bounty hunters in the spreadsheet should be a problem. It is one thing to get random mails and it is another thing to want to open them. I get that all the time. The heading is what I look at to know whether to delete them or not. Those not worth my attention I delete at once without reading. The only thing to avoid is not to use an official or important email address for bounty to avoid junk mails. Create a new mail for bounties.

it shouldn't be that big of a deal. However, for some bounty hunters, or those who use their main email, it will be very annoying. we don't know what to send in the email we have. however, it could be phishing or spam.

If those affected are just starting out, they should learn from that experience not to use their main email address on a public forum like we have here. Learn and move on. I think hunters should generally avoid using main emails on bounties or airdrops, even outside this forum. Some airdrops do not even send tokens. They are after your email address as they will ask you to fill it in the form. And that ends it. No more communication from them once they get your email address.

[risatrakib]

This is a really bad thing nowadays doing many bounty managers. I also faced problem for this ,A lot of spam mail is coming every day which is very dangerous.Bounty managers should private our mail in spreadsheet so that no one can collect our mail and sent spam mails.

[Mata Kripto]

apparently not only me who complained about this problem, i also always received some kind of spam giveaway messages, airdrops, contests, about ico etc. even though every time I join the bounty program using a new email but there is always such a bots message.

[speedforce]

apparently not only me who complained about this problem, i also always received some kind of spam giveaway messages, airdrops, contests, about ico etc. even though every time I join the bounty program using a new email but there is always such a bots message.

I just join this bounty thing, i should be more aware of this issue, thanks for sharing. But, im pretty sure this issue was caused by unproffesional bounty manager which need more practice to manage a bounty.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Bounty managers please kindly start hiding emails in your spreadsheet because I always like using new email for bounty participation and I surprised that there are many offer mails in my email account, some are free airdrop some are affiliate marketing offers, I still remember that some people are selling email addresses online, it will be easier for such people to go through bounty spreadsheet and pack the whole email address

Thank you for letting them know this, but like seriously, do bounty managers still expose email addresses in spreadsheet this days?? The last time I experienced this Last was way back in 2017, after that, every campaign I've participated, email addresses hasn't been ever exposed in spreadsheet, if there is any bounty manager that still exposes participants email addresses on their campaign spreadsheet, I think such a  manager need to be enlightened on the dangers of this act.

[isaac_clarke22]

I do not see why not hiding email addresses of bounty hunters in the spreadsheet should be a problem. It is one thing to get random mails and it is another thing to want to open them. I get that all the time. The heading is what I look at to know whether to delete them or not. Those not worth my attention I delete at once without reading. The only thing to avoid is not to use an official or important email address for bounty to avoid junk mails. Create a new mail for bounties.

It's quite annoying to delete emails sometimes especially in email platforms like Yahoo Mail.
I gotta scroll all the way down to each and every junk mails that were not needed.
I guess it is also platform's missing feature but still "prevention is better than cure". Use another email address. It is just that easy.

[MishaSER]

I completely agree with the author, just recently an airdrop Uniswap came to the mail, which turned out to be a scam and I saw a couple of guys who got caught.

Those who come via email are almost all Scams, so it's better to just ignore them, because a good project doesn't need to send a letter to everyone to participate in it, because the good ones will always be sought after and in demand by many people.

Yes, this is understandable, but over the course of 2-3 years I have received quite a few messages in the mail, such as bounty airdrops. Scammers are so adept that they create the most beautiful messages.

[kayvie]

You can control the bounty manager to hide the email lists on spreadsheet yourself, you don't need to make post about it on here, I'm guessing that this happens almost every time when a new bounty managers tries to manage a new project, no reputable bounty manager will do such thing

Maybe the word should not be ' control the manager' but call the manager to the implications. Since my exposure twice, I usually check spreadsheet before applying for a bounty campaign. This email exposure flood your mail to numerous spam and phishing mail, am still dealing with some till date. If manager does not correct this and project looks enticing, hunters can choose to open new mail like someone said, it is an alternative to control so many repercussions

Yes, there is no need to control the manager, calling their attention and make them understand what bounty hunters want like hiding the email addresses can be solved just by approaching them. Most bounty managers do understand the situation especially for bounty hunter, they do their job as bounty managers but bounty mamagers also do what is right for the bounty hunters.

[Hamphser]

Bounty managers please kindly start hiding emails in your spreadsheet because I always like using new email for bounty participation and I surprised that there are many offer mails in my email account, some are free airdrop some are affiliate marketing offers, I still remember that some people are selling email addresses online, it will be easier for such people to go through bounty spreadsheet and pack the whole email address

You cant do anything if the manager do have their own ways neither they would hide or show all of informations in the spreadsheet but i do agree on the point that there should be some sort of privacy but it can be helped because they would stick out to their rules. Therefore, we should use our common sense and make use of new email everytime we do participate in bounties and dont make use of your main email because that would really be prone to be taken and received lots of junk emails.

[pilosopotasyo]

Bounty managers please kindly start hiding emails in your spreadsheet because I always like using new email for bounty participation and I surprised that there are many offer mails in my email account, some are free airdrop some are affiliate marketing offers, I still remember that some people are selling email addresses online, it will be easier for such people to go through bounty spreadsheet and pack the whole email address

When I was active int he altcoin bounty hunting I seldom encounter bounty campaign that I ask for emails but there are a lot of airdrops that asked for emails if I encounter one I just use a spare email where I created specifically for my traffic lists and airdrop offer, most of these offers just landed in the spam emails.

[Lrshohag]

Hey guy, you are very right.
My email is full by such kind of sms.
Whom I never subscribe they send me sms all time.
It is very irritating.
Of course bounty manager should follow this.
It is important to hide email address.

[New_order]

Don't expect all new bounty managers to be that smart, some of them don't even know how important proof of Authentication Posts are, these new bounty managers needs our help, we need more good bounty managers like Hhampuz so let's keep supporting and also keep correcting any bounty manager that make few mistakes

[xSkylarx]

This is the reason why I avoid some bounty campaign or airdrops. The email address I used can be seen by anyone and it's possible that someone will hack it so I can't guarantee that I'm the one that is going to benefit from that campaign. I'll just join it if the bounty manager is well reputed in this forum so I'll be at ease that my effort won't go to waste.

[bosede1]

When I participate in bounties I normally don't see email been exposed but still, I get many messages on my email account. Recently there was a mail saying I have only two days to accept a token which I don't know when I participated in such airdrop and bounty for me to qualify for any token.

[Rodeo02]

This is the reason why I avoid some bounty campaign or airdrops. The email address I used can be seen by anyone and it's possible that someone will hack it so I can't guarantee that I'm the one that is going to benefit from that campaign. I'll just join it if the bounty manager is well reputed in this forum so I'll be at ease that my effort won't go to waste.

Before joining in a bounty you can check the spreadsheet first before and see it if it's hidden or any one can view  it. If you see it show to everyone you can ask the manager to hide it or don't join in that kind of bounty.

You can also use other email if you really want to join in that bounty in that case they will only send spam messages to your fake email that only use for bounty .

[bosede1]

When I participate in bounties I normally don't see email been exposed but still, I get many messages on my email account. Recently there was a mail saying I have only two days to accept a token which I don't know when I participated in such airdrop  for me to qualify for any token.

[Tervelatuk]

This is the reason why I avoid some bounty campaign or airdrops. The email address I used can be seen by anyone and it's possible that someone will hack it so I can't guarantee that I'm the one that is going to benefit from that campaign. I'll just join it if the bounty manager is well reputed in this forum so I'll be at ease that my effort won't go to waste.

if we see any campaign show our email in their spreadsheet its better to tell bounty manager to hide it. i am ever warn bounty manager about it and they directly do this. its our privacy , hackers could send our untrusted link to trap us . if we careless, our personal data could taken by them. so checking is best way than we avoid the campaign.

[qory]

For me I really think the email addresses should not be exposed publicly and if so they should ask first the participants if they are aware that their email will be post publicly and if they accept it. Since someone can take a copy of it and can be use for advertisement purposes I think the best way to avoid it is to use dummy email address.

[Baimovic]

Bounty managers please kindly start hiding emails in your spreadsheet because I always like using new email for bounty participation and I surprised that there are many offer mails in my email account, some are free airdrop some are affiliate marketing offers, I still remember that some people are selling email addresses online, it will be easier for such people to go through bounty spreadsheet and pack the whole email address

When I was active int he altcoin bounty hunting I seldom encounter bounty campaign that I ask for emails but there are a lot of airdrops that asked for emails if I encounter one I just use a spare email where I created specifically for my traffic lists and airdrop offer, most of these offers just landed in the spam emails.

yes I agree with you,, I mean if you join the bounty campaign then use a new email or not with your main gmail because it can be risky with your data too. But still, even though using new email there are still spam attacks from various airdrops and other spam messages.