Email address exposure in spreadsheet

[Ryushin]

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

I'm sick and tired of email appearing on spreadsheet, professional Bounty managers knows their way and they are very good at their work. The new ones especially the copper members are the ones responsible for this behavior with revealing of one's privacy. Now this email are copied by third parties especially the marketing guys and then resale for to other companies at juicy price.
When these companies want to advertise their business, they begin to spam your email with unnecessary messages without unsubscribe button. It's annoying.

I understand your pain but we want more professional bounty managers in crypto space right? So we can't allow some rooms for errors in new bounty managers? What kind of message we are trying to pass? Bubbalex, Hhampuz, wapinter, etc are all once newbies too and I'm sure they must have made such mistakes before, just correct them and the issue will be fixed.

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[SHAHKHAN22]

I think its a shocking news for  all bounty hunter that his personal mail can be steal.
But they can be safe
If they using not his personal mail in bounty you should use new mail for bounties for the safety of his personal mail data.
2nd the bounty manages should be responsible for the safety of bounty hunter mail
Best bounty manager always hide bounty hunter mail.

[asus09]

I am very worried with bounty manager not hidden our email and exposed on spreadsheet with not professional working by bounty campaign manager, so for safety with my data I always use new email without connected in other exchange wallet and never use the email for bounty campaign with social media account. Many bounties campaign show our email on spreadsheet just few campaign hidden with our email, maybe if get with trusted and experience bounty campaign manager they will hidden our email because know how most important with email account and if show on spreadsheet every time got spam and fake link in our email inbox.

[omone1]

It's highly unprofessional for any bounty manager to expose emails of bounty participants. I remember a project then that usually publish email in public. It's unethical. Participants can as well advise the manager to hide the emails.

[optimisticcm]

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

Thanks for bringing up this issue and i was also amazed to see open exposure of emails in spreadsheets which is obviously something not needed for public, team should only keep them for private record or to send important updates and notifications, displaying them is spreadsheets just do not make any sense.

[jacafbiz]

I don't see the reason why bounty managers will ask for people's email and display them in the public spreadsheet, it doesn't worth it at all. I remember this project Velic when the BM made the mistake of displaying email in the public, then I started receiving Spam messages at will and get to annoying state. This should be discourage if you want their email ask them to subscribe to the newsletter

[DabsPoorVersion]

It is very common scenario to those bounty managers who just started recently,

Compared to those popular mamagers who already know what they are doing, those unpopular managers do require their participants to submit unnecessary informations like email that will be exposed in the spreadsheet. That's why we should participate only to bounty campaigns that do not exposed any important info of their participants such as emails.

[seleme]

For privacy reasons, some columns have to be hidden by bounty managers but it is not possible to hide the identity of bounty participants in long term bounty hunting. There are many possibilities for each bounty campaign but I have respect for bounty managers who did their best in order to protect the forum users. Scam projects can send bomb email for the public email addresses, the best option is to use a temporary email address for each bounty campaign, IMO.

[Dave1]

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

Good request, but I doubt that bounty managers or the project itself will hide your email. Well, bounty managers can hide it, but what about the project, they can have the list for themselves and you don't know if they will sell this to a third party as crypto mailing lists, or they themselves using it to make email email blast.

It's easy to create new emails anyway, so why make this an issue on your end? Just don't used your private email though, because once it is exposed then you can received this junked emails for good.

[danglongbtc]

Bounty manager can simply hide that email address column or reduce column size so showcase only one or two words of your mails. I think this is better solution instead of putting a stop on asking for emails.

[Bitstar_coin]

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

Yes that's why i try not to register with my personal email but strictly a bounty campaign created email which I know even if expose won't be a problem to me, especially when email hunters hijack them and filled your inbox with junk mails,

Usually when it is required for participant to submit their email for a campaign the bm is suppose to immediately hide those mails but unfortunately some bm don't do this and as a result the bad guys will copy everything for their use.

[raidarksword]

It is pretty annoying to got some spam on emails regarding airdrop affiliation links and i got it everyday on email that's why already flagged them to automatically sent into my spam folder. Trusted bounty managers always hide email information on open public sheets for security purposes and obviously to prevent from email spammers. Just to prevent those spams it is advisable to use secondary email in joining bounty or airdrop so that personal important email is safe from spammers.

[gurunanakji777]

Yes, this is most of the bounty hunters concern while showing details in the spreadsheet Email part should be hide so that nobody uses these email Ids to sent spam emails and yes you are right even some people sell these emails also. Ultimately it's bounty manager's duty.

[maartenhaha]

The bounty manager should not need an email as a requirement to join the campaign except for account verification on the website. Even if the manager hides the email in the spreadsheet but I still receive spam and phishing, please use an alternative email for bounty activity

[MCobian]

Indeed, all confidential information should be hidden, not shown in spreadsheets. Therefore, every time I join a bounty campaign,
I never use personal email, to prevent my email from being misused. But there are some bounty managers who hide email in
a spreadsheet, so it depends on the policies of each bounty managers.

[SaRmY]

I don’t think it will help. Who said that your data is not bought from managers? Here I am not all so kind here. Thank God the era of decentralization. And then probably my passport has already been sold 30 times by managers. In general, 99% of those who ask you for an email will spam you there). Someone got the wrong number in the store. I have been receiving SMS notification for 3 years already ...

[bittick]

Just uses an email for this specific purpose. Every manager has their own way to manage their bounties and some of them are newcomers who want to try out being a manager which means they are inexperienced.
Although I'm sure 100% that if you use your email frequently for doing things online it's already exposed somewhere else. Just be cautious I guess by not revealing your primary or important email.

[Greatdev]

I use my general email address when joining Airdrops and Bounties, yes I receive many spam mails and probably scam deals but who cares? I don't check them out anyways, I only open mails that I am expecting, also I add strong password for my email and even used 2FA so I have nothing to worry about

[Kunnu]

This is very unfortunate that some bounty managers are very irresponsible in this way they don't hide the email addresses of participants which is absolutely unacceptable they must have to understand that scammers and spammers may misuse the e-mail data of participants unfortunately bounty participants have no control over it. The wise way is they must always use different email addresses instead of their real email so they can protect themselves from scammers and spammers.

[bluebit25]

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

This problem becomes extremely simple for BM business because they realize that a lot of spam will be sent if email is published on spreadsheet. However in some cases we still see it appear, i really feel very inconvenient because of that, and if possible i think if you see such cases, please report it to BM and ask them to hide it.