Email address exposure in spreadsheet

[2tang]

Sometimes they even write that they won't use your data.  But they themselves openly provide your mail for everyone to see.  I don't like it either, and I even wrote to the manager, but he ignored my appeal.

Many bounty and airdrop projects do require participants to register their email address in the registration form, but some managers hide their email addresses on the spreadsheet but some publish participant email addresses publicly in spreadsheets so that everyone can see the email addresses we have. That's why every time I follow a project I will use another different email address and the email has no connection to important things, such as trading accounts, personal accounts, or forum account emails, it's too risky for us to provide an email address that has something to do with something important or personal because if someone knows the email address it will certainly be easy to hack.

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[swiftbits]

I encounter that as well, I guess it's much better to use a separate email address for bounty hunting.
I once flooded with promotions and phishing emails.
We should also protect our telegram accounts, as people been using it to their bots for auto-invite.

[jessyj48]

I've promoted two bounties managed by jr members but I warned them about the email exposure in spreadsheet and they listen, they hide the emails in spreadsheet, this can happen if the bounty managers are new to bounty managing, you just have to correct them.

In this space i trust nobody, even all these so called new bounty manager can make use of the email addresses themselves or sold it to scammers too, most especially all those affiliate marketers seeking for ways to promote their products, they are well known for buying thousands of email address

[mersal]

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

Even though manager hide the email address still you can't be sure that it will be never shared with anyone so never use your primary email address, Crypto address for bounty related submission because you will end up with what scenarios yiu are currently facing now.

[krisnajsadrak]

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

ask your bounty manager to hide the email address buddy,
because if email address shown in spreadsheet for sure, a lot of spam message will coming to your email

[JeffBrad12]

I encounter that as well, I guess it's much better to use a separate email address for bounty hunting.
I once flooded with promotions and phishing emails.
We should also protect our telegram accounts, as people been using it to their bots for auto-invite.

I do agree with it. We should never use our email to participate in the bounty. I have received hundreds of spam and phishing email from various parties. There are so many scammers who have been using the auto-invite on the telegram group too.
The scammers have been trying to use various ways to get more and more victim.
The manager should also consider this request. It's not a wrong decision to hide the participant's email from the scammers.

[Dr.Osh]

Email crypto spam is the big problem. Only special email address for crypto could solve this problem more or less

This will solve the issue, Bounty hunter should not use there personal email when joining in bounty campaign. Always expect the worst that there details will be exposed in public.

Bounty manager submit all the spreadsheet information to the project owner so even though they hide it. Project owner will see it and they are the one that selling or giving away user email to other project to have initial user for them.

agree with this. to avoid this, you should not use personal email. hiding email is a great thing for things like this. however, we cannot change the rules given. yeah, but if you still don't agree with that, and want to support a project with a bounty, then make a new email specifically for bounties.

[hossamdz]

i agree with you , such informations like email address or locations , names should be hidden by the bounty managers because there is lot of scammers who would use or sell those free informations using the spreadsheet

[Greatchu]

When it comes to bounties always have it create a separate email address for that because they will be exposed, there are places online where people buy and sell thousands of email in locked PDF, I've seen people buying them before, do not use your business or office email address, creating a new email address won't cost you more than seconds of your time.

[Inkdatar]

When it comes to bounties always have it create a separate email address for that because they will be exposed, there are places online where people buy and sell thousands of email in locked PDF, I've seen people buying them before, do not use your business or office email address, creating a new email address won't cost you more than seconds of your time.

This is the resolution to those who joined a bounty. When you joined the bounty just provide an email address that is for bounty only not your personal account. This is my issues in my email a lot of offer like networking or ponzi scheme and airdrop. We all know a lot of scam that sends phishing links so better be safe than sorry.

[modellao6]

Yes, the problem has always existed，exposing email address does lead to a lot of spam，for a experienced bounty manager，usually dont make this mistake，but if a bounty project is operating by a newbie，it is hard to say. Generally，this problems can only be solved by ourselves, that is creating a new one to join bounty project.

[tycsols]

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

It is really annoying to see open email addresses in some spreadsheets, I think bounty managers need to be more professional because you have our data but how can you forget to hide sensitive data lile email ids? Thankfully enough now most of the bounty hunters do hide them so i would hope that all bounty managers will do the same.

[Samayuki]

Not all project teams are good, some will definitely take advantage of anybody if they want to, we entrust our email address with bounty manager and after bounty manager's work is done he pass the spreadsheet to the team for distribution, bounty manager can get his hand on the whole email address or even the team and use them to their own advantage, it's good to use fake or new email address instead

[Samayuki]

If email address can be this compromising how about when we send out our national Id card to centralized exchanges to pass KYC verifications just to allow us to trade and withdraw? Honestly crypto need to start working towards fully decentralization, data will be compromised, that's for sure and there is nothing to use against it.

[carter34]

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

Sometimes too the experienced bounty managers forget to his the email but if reminded of the mistake they did by opening it, they hide it up immediately. Yes it is not proper to allow participants email addresses to be shown because of hack, sell of the email, etc.

[kindbtc]

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 have experienced this exact thing and im regularly getting spam emails from various airdroppers, phishers, scammers and sellers.
There are many campaigns even now where email ids are exposed in the spreadsheet so maybe we need to ping the managers in telegram or other accounts so that he takes action and hides it immediately.

[isaac_clarke22]

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

Why not just use a junk email? It isn't that hard to register new ones. Check the spreadsheet first if you're not yet sure if they show the email address of people.
Though I think showing email is quite bothering, but you can never control how a bounty manager does or manage his bounty.
Only best thing to do is not join or use a fake email address that isn't linked to any of your email addresses so that possible spreading of garbage mails would not happen.

[pixie85]

One of the smart ways of doing this is listing participants by their nickname or bitcointalk ID, or at least cutting the domain part of the email to make it much harder for a possible spammer to target them.

I always use different email addresses on sites that I don't trust and if you're worried you could be targeted by spam just do the same. It's more work for you but security comes at a price.

[Ghondronk]

It seems the responsibility lies on both parties. Firstly, the bounty managers should be responsible of keeping the sensitive data like email addresses without exposing those to any outsider. Also you need to use a separate email for for both bounties and airdrops as once you join those activities, your mailbox will soon get filled with large number of emails sent by them. 

[Dragonfund]

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.