Email address exposure in spreadsheet

[sniveel]

I am also favor of hiding email addresses in the bounty spreadsheet cause I found it unnecessary to be include in the sheets. Exposing emails can be used by scammers to scam other people by sending fake emails, sending links which may lead to pishing sites. But the decision is still up to the bounty manager whether he/she hide the email address or not.

[yazher]

maybe the manager does that to avoid fraud and anticipates it but other people take advantage of it and take our email and then pass it on, actually if you get an email like an airdrop or information about other crypto it really helps, the problem is if someone sends a scam or fraudulent email to people new to crypto

I often receive some strange emails after I register my real emails to some of the airdrops and bounties that I have joined before and the result my email is like the garbage of spam messages. You don't need to click all the links to check if they are real or not. instead, don't gamble your email to check those stuff and just delete all of them when you are not sure where you get those messages. Usually, they tell you about your account on another website that it needs to change its password and that's their strategy to access your account because what they gave you is a link from a phishing website.

[DonFacundo]

Maybe that bounty manager is new, he didn't know how risky to exposed the email addresses of the bounty participants in the spreadsheet. He should hide it because they will get spam emails. I advice to the bounty hunters that do not use your main email when joining bounties, just use a second email for it.

[gurunanakji777]

We should ask the bounty manager to hide the email Id column in the spreadsheet but It happens in some bounties some bounty managers are smart they do hide the emails in the spreadsheet without asking but some are careless they should know hacker or promoters copy the emails to send their phishing links or promotional links that I hate to open it. I usually avoid all such links until and unless from a trusted source. Even we should know there are sellers who sell the email list in exchange of money So we have to use different email id for the bounties.

[Bitloca]

I don't really care about my email being exposed on the spreadsheet, because it's just a work email, not a personal email, and I don't check those emails very often. so there is no problem.

[Jackl87]

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 really is part of the job of a bounty manager to hide information like personal e-mail adresses from the public.
For some bounties there is KYC required, which means you also need to provide an e-mail adress and even way more sensitive data too.
So it's very important that boutny managers don't just copy and paste that info into their public spreadsheet.
The only thing this spreadsheet should contain is your forum name, twitter name, telegram handle or whatever identifies you and the address the payment goes to. Nothing else.

[uelque]

I don't really care about my email being exposed on the spreadsheet, because it's just a work email, not a personal email, and I don't check those emails very often. so there is no problem.

Well not all people here are using different emails or work emails just like you. If you're not having any problem then good, but some are having real issues. And bounty managers need to be aware about the spreadsheet that they are publishing in public.

And you may not now check your mails but don't wait for the time where you accidentally click a pop up email coming from an unknown sender and then boom, lost some of your precious stones. So you better need to have a problem about it. 

[Natalim]

So it's better to separate your email address in a bounty campaign so it will become safe. But it's better if they are keeping hiding the email address of the participants so people feel safe that their information is really safe because some people are scared of exposing some of their identity because they really want to be anonymous here in the bitcointalk and the crypto world

It's nice if the email is hidden so email is only for a certain project you are promoting. On the other hand, you are right that we should separate personal email and for bounty email requirement so our personal information will not be compromise.

When I was still actively participating in bounty, I made sure not to use my real email as I want to be anonymous and that's what I like to promote being in the crypto space, so we should be smart at the same time while joining a bounty campaign because we cannot control the bounty managers.

[0t3p0t]

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

I agree. Email spamming is so annoying sometimes hackers send some phishing links on it that is why creating special crypto email is advisable for your convenience, safety and privacy. This is not just the bounty manager's obligation but we can request for them to hide our emails but it is also on our part to be aware of this.

[BaeSuzy]

Dude if you deciding to join the bounty campaign i think u smart enough to not use ur real email.. You can use a new email just for bounty, how can you use ur real email for bounty it will be a lot of spam coming into ur inbox.

[Bazlur]

I don't really care about my email being exposed on the spreadsheet, because it's just a work email, not a personal email, and I don't check those emails very often. so there is no problem.

I don't think anyone who works in cryptocurrency submits a personal email. Everyone submits work email. But the problem is that some times we may receive phishing email. And if you click on that phishing email by mistake, your crypto asset can be stolen. Also, emails with different offers seem annoying to me.

[kak uli]

I think your writing can be an input for the bounty manager you are referring to. I agree with you.
  Manager should be able to hide bounty participant e-mails should not be displayed in the spreadsheet. because it can be misused by other parties

[yurez]

I don't even know for what purpose bounty managers collect email address data from bounty participants, if only in the future to send spam or something else. To weed out bots, it is enough to publish a link to a PoA post.

[bakasabo]

I don't even know for what purpose bounty managers collect email address data from bounty participants, if only in the future to send spam or something else. To weed out bots, it is enough to publish a link to a PoA post.

Some projects, that distribute rewards to dashboard, identify users mostly by email. They match email from spreadsheet/registration form with the one user created account and confirmed it. The false opinion is that bounty hunters are identified on the dashboard by adding their ERC20 address to it. But that is not true. Because if this was, cheaters will search spreadsheet for highest reward and add its ERC20 address to their dashboard account.

[Smartvirus]

I don't even know for what purpose bounty managers collect email address data from bounty participants, if only in the future to send spam or something else. To weed out bots, it is enough to publish a link to a PoA post.

I suppose it’s part of the means to catch bounty cheaters but, it doesn’t end at that as, these mails are a means to sending out informations regarding the bounties since, the bounty threads is usually a packed with POA and Bounty reports almost on a weekly bases.

However, projects do need to ensure users stay informed on changes via a channel, like project launch, project switches on blockchains and some integrations that might prove costly if not activated in time.

The downside has always been, these spam mails and managers/CEOs could use the mails available to them for whatever cricket business that sadly wouldn’t benefit you!

[Oilacris]

I don't even know for what purpose bounty managers collect email address data from bounty participants, if only in the future to send spam or something else. To weed out bots, it is enough to publish a link to a PoA post.

I suppose it’s part of the means to catch bounty cheaters but, it doesn’t end at that as, these mails are a means to sending out informations regarding the bounties since, the bounty threads is usually a packed with POA and Bounty reports almost on a weekly bases.

However, projects do need to ensure users stay informed on changes via a channel, like project launch, project switches on blockchains and some integrations that might prove costly if not activated in time.

The downside has always been, these spam mails and managers/CEOs could use the mails available to them for whatever cricket business that sadly wouldn’t benefit you!

On bounty hunters point of view then it would really be that recommended that you should really be just that make use of a dummy email or simply it is really just that created for the sake of bounty hunting nothingless. You wouldnt really be having any stress about this and that.   It would really be just that too foolish of you if you do make use of your main email on doing bounty hunting
on which it would really be that normally be flooded out by tons of spam emails on whatever it would be. As long it would really be that exposed on a public spreadsheet then you could
really be possibly be able to experience out those things. So it would really be that recommended that you should really be that making use of dummy emails.

[Smartvirus]

~snipe~

On bounty hunters point of view then it would really be that recommended that you should really be just that make use of a dummy email or simply it is really just that created for the sake of bounty hunting nothingless. You wouldnt really be having any stress about this and that.  It would really be just that too foolish of you if you do make use of your main email on doing bounty hunting
on which it would really be that normally be flooded out by tons of spam emails on whatever it would be. As long it would really be that exposed on a public spreadsheet then you could
really be possibly be able to experience out those things. So it would really be that recommended that you should really be that making use of dummy emails.

Bounty hunters don’t care so much about this.

Also, given the lots of bounty campaigns out here for participation, most bounty hunters don’t have the time or get the chance to create a new mail for every campaign. Well, it ain’t bad having that one or two dummy mails to use for POA and Reports. You just have that peace of mind that, it ain’t your official mailing address and you can go ahead to off notifications on it.

It saves you a lot of energy from spam mail notifications and having yo constantly visit your device over every alert.