Email address exposure in spreadsheet

[Cadaver20]

You indicate a very good point.  Like you, I also get a lot of airdrop or different service email every day.  It is very risky to open these emails.  Like you, I think bounty managers should hide bounty hunter's email address from the spreedsheet.  Because no possible path should be left open for scammers.

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[catur123]

I agree with you that many spam e-mails come to my e-mails and the rewards are very tempting.
But for this problem in my opinion it depends on the BM of the project. And my advice to all BM please hide all Emails in spreadsheets.

[lxiaoh]

Indeed this is a problem，my E-mail receive a lot of junk mail about crypto frequently，it drives me crazy. Now think about it，maybe the reason is i am using this Email address to join in bounty project and airdrop project.

[bakasabo]

Why would even bounty manager or a project needs bounty hunters email? If they want to get rid of multi accounts or cheaters, then it wont really help. Emails can be created or bought in bulk. If they think that this could be used for users identification, then identification of a hunter by wallet address is more than enough.

I've seen managers ask to "use same email while registering on projects page to get the reward". Don't know how that will help to fight cheaters. Still many dashboards simply allow to bound any wallet address to get a reward. Imho, forcing to fill email field in google form while registering in bounty is stupid and useless.

[Dollar_Hunter]

indeed this can make scammers have a lot of targeted email,
yes this is like a home address for someone, and will be used by scammers to steal,
I regret if there are bounty projects that don't hide.

[Yamifoud]

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.

That what possibly it takes, they can sell it in the black market. A reason that I won't make any participation when asking email addy and I suggest for hunters not to do as well because this also risking our personal identities 0r possible ruin.
I can't imagine if someone, a uniform personnel will bring you to their office for interrogation for a crime that you never know. That possibly a worst-case scenario that I am afraid of.

We don't know the reason why asking for such important information and if we care about ourselves, should we have not to do this.
Bounty managers also will have to think about this as well and for the welfare of their participants unless you are to have a bad intention.

[simpelplan]

I think, professional Bounty managers know their way and they are very good at their job. What is especially new is the copper members who are responsible for this behavior by disclosing one's privacy. Now these emails are copied by third parties especially marketing people and then resold to other companies at attractive rates.

[InwardContour]

It is very unfortunate for the bounty manager who still does not understand this risk,
so we must really feel worried about this, don't let our guard down, because phishing sites will always exist.

Some Bounty managers still do not hide email addresses which is awful. Last week I received phising mails containing cloned Kucoin exchange link, asking me to login to claim KCS rewards for a Kucoin campaign I didn't join. What if I ignorantly used the kucoin scam cloned site to login, my account would have been cleared. It's very important to hide mails on spreadsheet or at least hide a part of it. Security is very vital and hence should not be taken for granted.

[vaultman]

I have the same situation, but only with a telegram account. Constantly someone writes in private messages with "super profitable" offers for the purchase of something incomprehensible. And this greatly interferes with finding the desired message from some, for example, a manager who should have contacted me. Therefore, I also believe that those responsible for the bounty campaign need to do something about it, at least hide the ways of communicating with people from the spreadsheet.

[JTripathy]

Yes, I also faced issue due to this.
I'm a crypto investor and bounty hunter and there are so many bounties which need email address and also BM shows them on spreadsheet and maximum time I get email of advertisements, scam offers and many more. All BM should need to take care about this because it's again privacy also.

[MishaSER]

I have the same situation, but only with a telegram account. Constantly someone writes in private messages with "super profitable" offers for the purchase of something incomprehensible. And this greatly interferes with finding the desired message from some, for example, a manager who should have contacted me. Therefore, I also believe that those responsible for the bounty campaign need to do something about it, at least hide the ways of communicating with people from the spreadsheet.

I also receive messages from different people who ask me how my life is and how I’m doing, then they ask if you want to make money on passive. Therefore, it is necessary to close access to mail and telegram.

[Zeehaxan]

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

Mostly the emails are hidden and I have never faced such a situation yet but if some manager keeps it open in the spreadsheet that is very wrong not only participants will get spam but it also exposes their personal or private contact details which should not happen.

[bakasabo]

Addition to email address exposure, some managers ask to fill country you are from in joining google form and later expose that in spreadsheet. What is that for? Is this a "short" KYC ? While email is often enough to connect person to his deeds, exposing his country will greatly deanonymize him. Ever see confusing lines in bounty joining form - skip it. You identity cost more than a chance to earn.

[judeafante]

Addition to email address exposure, some managers ask to fill country you are from in joining google form and later expose that in spreadsheet. What is that for? Is this a "short" KYC ? While email is often enough to connect person to his deeds, exposing his country will greatly deanonymize him. Ever see confusing lines in bounty joining form - skip it. You identity cost more than a chance to earn.

I'm ok with email because you can always create emails specifically for that campaign but asking more for your nationality or anything related to your personal info is not good if you are not a fan of KYC don't join this campaign that will compromise your sensitive details, but on a legit project, I will have to cross the bridge when I get there.

[husdemba]

Bounty managers are essential to a bounty program. They should think about us on many such matters.
Our personal information must be protected and we must not be exposed to spam messages.

[bison]

Bounty managers are essential to a bounty program. They should think about us on many such matters.
Our personal information must be protected and we must not be exposed to spam messages.

Looks like mistakes have been around for a very long time. It's not just a matter of emailing the spreadsheet, but we also need to be careful about choosing projects. it could also be that the data we provide when registering a campaign is misused by the project manager or team to carry out a scam marketing project via email. someone may also sell email documents to other marketing projects.

[LastKiss]

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 better to start make another email address (alt email) for you, so when you participate in a campaign you can use your alternative email to register and have different email for your main use, example for exchange, website and others. We never know if bounty manager will use our email for phishing purpose, its better to aware to that kind of thing. 

[covfefe_]

I have always been critical of displaying my personal email on the spreadsheet. Most of the regular bounty managers have stepped up and are aware of making it private from the start yet many of the new and old bounty managers just doesn't care or gives out various excuses before actually making that private. The bounty managers and anyone that needs to view that could be easily shared while keeping the email column invisible to the public. They just need to learn using the google forms a bit.

[kevinzxz]

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

maybe the bounty manager you follow doesn't know about it, because now I see many bounty manager who have hidden our email in spreadsheet, so you better tell the bounty manager not to display email address in spreadsheet, then in the future the bounty manager will already know about it and will not do it again or my suggestion is that you better create a special email for use in bounty, so as not to affect or interfere with your main email when the bounty manager displays your email address in a spreadsheet.

[WalkerIVIV]

Bounty managers are essential to a bounty program. They should think about us on many such matters.
Our personal information must be protected and we must not be exposed to spam messages.

Any participants have the right to make complaints to the managers if they are not feeling good with the exposure that already made by its managers to the their email. I think that if the hunters can talk with the managers directly. there are still some managers are revealing the email of hunters.
There are so many scammers these days and these scammers are sending various phishing link to the participants.