Email address exposure in spreadsheet

[kevincandra]

I think the reliable bounty manager will not display the participant's email address publicly, I observe that it is only valid for one day during the initial registration and after that the manager hides each email address in his spreadsheet again. this is to minimize the worst risk, such as in the case of selling email online.

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[Alert31]

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're right because not only you experienced a lot of spam email in an email account. But I don't think you should pay attention to those emails because the bounty manager will not be able to control other people to expose or sell your email. Even if BM keeps that email but after handing it over to the project manager, it still does not guarantee that they will not use the emails or sell it. Just ignore those email which is not important.

[Axelseseclevz]

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

Agree, I also get useless mail messages every day, and it makes me a little annoyed when lots of free Airdrop offers come to my email, it makes me have to clean my email every day, so I totally agree that bounty managers hide email of each participant who enters the bounty.

Do you think BM will do it for bounty participants which is one of the requirements for joining bounty? That is called Risk, not only in investing and trading but now also in joining bounty campaign there is a risk that we should take. Just don't mind those spam emails and deleting will be the better solution for that matter.

[robelneo]

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's easy just hit the spam button and all their emails will land in the spam folders and will be deleted within 10 days, I seldom participated in a bounty campaign that asks for my email and I use a different email I created specifically for these kinds of campaigns if I cannot avoid it, but you are right that some campaigns are getting your email for the purpose of sending you offers or selling your email, always hide your email or fully secure it.

[dainoran]

Agree, I also get useless mail messages every day, and it makes me a little annoyed when lots of free Airdrop offers come to my email, it makes me have to clean my email every day, so I totally agree that bounty managers hide email of each participant who enters the bounty.

Do you think BM will do it for bounty participants which is one of the requirements for joining bounty? That is called Risk, not only in investing and trading but now also in joining bounty campaign there is a risk that we should take. Just don't mind those spam emails and deleting will be the better solution for that matter.

if most of participants bothered with that, then maybe BM will do it.
if the email is one of the requirements, BM should know which data that have some risk if it show up in the spreadsheet. most of people will assume that email is the important thing. maybe they have important mail in there, but it buried by the spam email. do you think the spam problem will end after we delete all the spam mails ? NO. they keep send you some spam in the next day and will keep sending you everyday. that is must be annoying. trust me, the profesionals BM will not show your email address in the spreadsheet.

[Adya]

bounty programs are almost dead. all good bounty managers who still mananging bounty campaigns do not collect emails or they hide emails. and ethereum adresses.

[Anonylz]

bounty programs are almost dead. all good bounty managers who still mananging bounty campaigns do not collect emails or they hide emails. and ethereum adresses.

What do you mean by bounty program are almost dead? Do you know this is the cheapest way for project owners to do marketing about their project? As long as there is always going to be a new project there will mostly likely going to be a bounty program,

And as for exposing of emails, that's up to the bm to know the right 5hingbto do, it doesn't make any sense to expose participant's emails in the first place.

[cassavachips]

This is something that must be evaluated by the bounty manager, the bounty manager must also start maintaining the bounty hunter data. Email is very easy to target for spam, especially emails belonging to cryptocurrency users.

[Furious 7]

This is a dilemma when we need to submit our email address or telegram or other data in the spreadsheet, but we have to.
This is the most common thing happens, after that, we will be spammed by hundreds of spam emails or groups to join airdrops and other promotions. And most of them are useless.

Almost every day I receive spam emails from airdrops I'm sure they know my email is from the bounty spreadsheet that I joined but somehow the scamer who keeps doing this just to find referrals, however we have to send data to the spreadsheet must be hidden because it's far away kebuh is safe on appeal that publishes it.

Ahhhh, I already keep receiving pesky spam emails, scamer always doesn't stop doing this.

[cheezcarls]

I would suggest not using a personal email for entering bounty campaigns. You can create a dummy one just for the bounty campaigns. We can't really say if the bounty managers are assuring us that our emails are not sold to the dark web. Every time I see those spreadsheets with emails being displayed, it really pisses me off. It means that either bounty manager, hunter or someone lurking from the "dark web" are already gathering these emails and start taking advantage of them. Just saying.

[Sirait]

^ To be honest, I differentiate between work email and personal email. So that when they (bounty manager) or other parties see my email in the spreadsheet, it's just a work email.

But usually cases like this occur when a project is handled by an inexperienced bounty manager. Experienced bounty managers rarely ask hunters for emails.

[sapnu]

I would suggest not using a personal email for entering bounty campaigns. You can create a dummy one just for the bounty campaigns. We can't really say if the bounty managers are assuring us that our emails are not sold to the dark web. Every time I see those spreadsheets with emails being displayed, it really pisses me off. It means that either bounty manager, hunter or someone lurking from the "dark web" are already gathering these emails and start taking advantage of them. Just saying.

The idea is that the exposure of email address on the spreadsheet, what I understand if they want that to happen or not. For us, of course, that is not good because there's a lot of things that can happen when your personal email address will be exposed, there is a big possibility that some scammers will target you for messaging or spamming you just to get your personal information and that might lead to hacking or worst your accounts or wallets will be hacked. I don't allow myself to join in some bounty campaigns with that rule.

[Anish02]

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

The bounty manager doesn't need to demonstrate everyone's email on a spreadsheet. He has to protect such sensitive information because people are just waiting for the opportunity to get benefits from information like this. As well we as a hunter we have to keep an email aside for the bounty campaigns registration which would help us to protect our identity.

[abel1337]

This is an issue from way back then especially when the airdrop was on hype. If you used your emails on these crypto projects, You will surely have a crypto-related email sent to your email. I've experienced it myself and regretted that I used my main email. Because of that spam, I created a new email and make it my new main email. Until now, spam email is being sent to my email. It will be nice we create a dedicated email to be displayed on the spreadsheets. I understand that the bounty manager needs to put it on the spreadsheet, it is because of the transparency and for the community to know who the cheaters is.

[Slingshot]

This is a good information to some bounty managers especially the new ones because some old bounty managers I know always do hide email details but let's always be vigilant to ensure we announce about giving of email wheneve a bounty demands for such. This is vital and will aid in security management.

[bhadz]

Even if they will hide it from the spreadsheet, there's a chance that they're also the ones that are selling it to marketing firms that are promoting ICOs.
I've signed up to a few website and lately, I've received several emails from different ICO projects. And that's the same as merging it with those collected email addresses from those bounties. It's a huge lead for them.

[pieppiep]

If you don't want your email address to be exposed in the spreadsheet then I think you have to create a new email specifically to join like this, after that you can change your Bitcointalk email account and remain anonymous.

[Iron Fist]

Reading all of this, I just don't see why people would reveal their personal details in this way. If I understood correctly, bounty campaigns are being used to promote certain projects, right? So why don't participants use disposable email addresses that can be discarded afterwards? There are several services available for this purpose.
I don't think there is a need to list them here, you can use google search for more information.

[plr]

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

Don't give you email at all the project might use all the emails they've collected to send you offers and links to phishing sites, they don't need our emails only our report and our proof of authentication with our wallet address, if they are asking it that's dubious and they should have a good reason why they are asking it.

[Buttermellow]

Yes, it is a lesson learn to me also for some BM ask for email ad and we do not have a choice but to comply. So? the best thing to do is to create an alternate email which has been only or intended for cryptocurrency. All personal related email should not be used here to avoid getting possible target from the hackers and the phishers that are good in doing at scamming.