Always hide your forum email address after registration.

[Stable090]

I don’t know if this is the appropriate section to talk about this, but am sure the post will also be useful to be newbie’s in the forum here. Am sure scammers are also on the forum here which are looking for every opportunity just to steal from us, the forum is doing everything possible to fight scammers here, and all the high rank members are trying their possible best. I just noticed something recently and I decided to share it here and  am sure lot’s of people will really benefit from it.

After creating forum account here, some of us do make mistake of leaving our email public, some people don’t really know about this so after creating account, they just start using it without changing email visibility to private. Some people’s email address is not properly protected so immediately scammers have access to your email address, they can easily compromise your email address and they will compromise everything linked to the email address including your forum account, and you will be losing your account to scammer. Just imagine scammer using your account for illegal things, they are spoiling your reputation on the forum here and some might endup selling the account to other people. I think it’s better we all take preventive measures so that we won’t fall victim .

Am sure some people don’t know about how to hide email address from public, I will be providing short steps on how to do that so that we will all be free from hackers.

Click on Account related settings.


You will see(Hide email address from public?), click on the box at the front.

[Erumo]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

[Stable090]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

When I was making the post I edited the email to bitcointalk@gmail.com, the email I used for bounty registration is different from the email I used to register the account, so don’t worry my account is kind of safe.

[Nwada001]

When one creates an account, there is a default setting that makes email hidden; it's only when one goes to the settings that you can manually activate the make email public option. It's only those who are on this forum to advertise their product and don't care about privacy who can make their email public so that their targeted audience can reach out to them through those emails. 

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

I doubt that could be it; even if it is, the OP must have other active emails that he/she uses for bounty and everything else relating to this forum. 
I also don't see any point in going through the spreadsheet to search for the Ops email to prove a point. 

[tranthidung]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

It is your guess that can be correct or inaccurate.

If a person is seriously about security and privacy, he will use a specific email for important registration and account. Obviously, email for bounty or unimportant things should be a different email. I agree that most of newbies will use same email for many different things both important and unimportant.

• Forum account: security, privacy, and recovery
• [Guide] How to know if your email address was part of any data breach.

[Cantsay]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

When I was making the post I edited the email to bitcointalk@gmail.com, the email I used for bounty registration is different from the email I used to register the account, so don’t worry my account is kind of safe.

And now you just exposed your Email.

I don't know if there are existing thread about this topic, I didn't bother to check but I think could be a good tutorial for those awho have tepered with their email default settings and have made their email address visible for everyone to see.
Although, some do expose their email intentionally to the public as it meant for business purposes.

[Rikafip]

And now you just exposed your Email.

Read his post again, he just used "bitcointalk@gmail.com" for the guide purposes, that of course is not the email he used for account creation (its probably taken long time ago anyway).


@OP since you are giving advice, let me give you one: when resizing image you don't have to use both width and height as using one is enough and the other will automatically adjust. That way image won't be slightly distorted like in your case.

[Husires]

You can register with a fake email. It is true that there are problems that you will face if you try to restore your account, but signing a message from the address once you log in is enough to prove your account ownership.
It is easy to create hundreds of accounts using protonmail, using paid version will give you easy management to 100 accounts which will enhance your privacy if you know how to use it.

We hope that in the future signatures will stop requesting data publicly and some of them are encrypted in private messages.

[Razmirraz]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

Why are you so sure Op used the same email to register on the bounty. Maintaining the security of account privacy is the responsibility of each user, maybe Op uses a different email used to register here.
Email registered on the forum need to be hidden from the public because it will be very risky to the safety of your account, while to register for the bounty you can use a backup email that is not related to any account that you think is important.

[Doan9269]

It's a choice to choose between hiding your email from being open to other members to see, this actually depends on the user involved, if you think you have services you offer or businesses that could help promote your career then i see no need hiding it but if you think about not having anything to offer the public regarding what you do, then you may decided not to hide your email, if they spam you up then you must not respond on their mails except the ones that are important should in case you make your email open to everyone.

[Woodie]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

Lol ouch is this OPs email from bounty??

I guess bounty manager was suppose to keep this part of the spreadsheet hidden as we have users out there mining for such information before your mailbox starts to receive all sorts of spam ,and possibly if you use same email addy as your bitcointalk email address people could try brute  force their way to hijacking ones account.

All in all email addresses on the forum are hidden from the public by default unless you choose to change  this for whatever reasons, so no need to worry.

[Fiatless]

Am sure some people don’t know about how to hide email address from public, I will be providing short steps on how to do that so that we will all be free from hackers.

I find this tutorial useful because I have been exposed to diverse security tips like using different emails for a different purposes. This is because privacy is key to avoiding scammers and fraud. This might make one have many email accounts that will be very difficult to maintain. Hence, it might not be out of place to keep a record of these emails to facilitate easy access. I have had to go through recovery processes because I usually forget the details of some of he email accounts I had opened all in the bid to pursue privacy.

[Erumo]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

I doubt that could be it; even if it is, the OP must have other active emails that he/she uses for bounty and everything else relating to this forum.
I also don't see any point in going through the spreadsheet to search for the Ops email to prove a point.

The point is - if you are here to teach someone, start from yourself. What is the point of telling how important it is to hide your email, when you flash yours?

[Stable090]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

I doubt that could be it; even if it is, the OP must have other active emails that he/she uses for bounty and everything else relating to this forum.
I also don't see any point in going through the spreadsheet to search for the Ops email to prove a point.

The point is - if you are here to teach someone, start from yourself. What is the point of telling how important it is to hide your email, when you flash yours?

Am sorry to ask but how did I flash my email? The one you saw on my profile is just an example, I deleted my main email and I used bitcointalk@gmail.com, you know the email won’t be available by now. The email you saw on bounty spreadsheet is not the email I used to create my account, I won’t just create thread when am not following what am advising other people to do.

[examplens]

I'm not sure why this forum is specifically mentioned for hiding an email address when it's a thing everywhere on the internet. Just don't leave your email address public anywhere, it will almost certainly be misused in some way. The Bitcointalk forum is no special exception.
There are also bounty campaigns that collect email addresses, I believe that many of them have submitted their primary email address.

Even if you take care of all such things, "hacking" of the user base of a large service happens very often, so you can easily be overwhelmed by spam.

[pixie85]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

It is your guess that can be correct or inaccurate.

If a person is seriously about security and privacy, he will use a specific email for important registration and account. Obviously, email for bounty or unimportant things should be a different email. I agree that most of newbies will use same email for many different things both important and unimportant.

• Forum account: security, privacy, and recovery
• [Guide] How to know if your email address was part of any data breach.

Some email providers allow you to enable 2fa which makes it very hard to compromise the address. I've never had any of my accounts with 2fa broken into. I usually have a password that consists of letters, numbers and signs and often use a burner email address for public forums, giveaways, product registration and similar things.

Don't worry about your email being visible people. Rather have a good and secure password, the longer, the better, enable 2fa and don't mix forum emails with the ones used for billing, taxes, or any government stuff. Keep crypto and personal information separate!

[salad daging]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

Lol ouch is this OPs email from bounty??

Just a guess, but Erumo is so sure but has been denied by the OP that forum registration emails and bounty emails are different even though there are slight similarities in account names.

I guess bounty manager was suppose to keep this part of the spreadsheet hidden as we have users out there mining for such information before your mailbox starts to receive all sorts of spam ,and possibly if you use same email addy as your bitcointalk email address people could try brute  force their way to hijacking ones account.

All in all email addresses on the forum are hidden from the public by default unless you choose to change  this for whatever reasons, so no need to worry.

Maybe the bounty manager forgot to hide this part or it is his rule that he publishes everything that is entered in the spreadsheet, so nothing can prevent him except awareness of the bounty manager.
But you are right with the email being published in the spreadsheet so that more people will know including the scammers who will send spam messages about other types of fraud, but the OP has denied that email is not the same as on bitcointalk.

[Hyphen(-)]

What is the point of hiding your email for registration here, if your email Stable080@gmail.com can be found in bounty spreadsheets. I am 99% sure you have used that email to register here

I doubt that could be it; even if it is, the OP must have other active emails that he/she uses for bounty and everything else relating to this forum.
I also don't see any point in going through the spreadsheet to search for the Ops email to prove a point.

The point is - if you are here to teach someone, start from yourself. What is the point of telling how important it is to hide your email, when you flash yours?

Am sorry to ask but how did I flash my email? The one you saw on my profile is just an example, I deleted my main email and I used bitcointalk@gmail.com, you know the email won’t be available by now. The email you saw on bounty spreadsheet is not the email I used to create my account, I won’t just create thread when am not following what am advising other people to do.

There is no point of explaining all this OP, I think @Erumo should note the explanations that has been made by other users.

Privacy is very important that is why the forum already set hiding mails as default so that problems of account hacks can be minimized because if the email is exposed many people will attempt to try their luck to hack into users account.

[Crypto Library]

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Everything is alright but the things you are suggesting or sharing , you already don't apply on yourself .
We are seeing that your email  on your screenshot, I think you forgot to remove or blur that part.
Any way there is no doubt that email hiding is also a good idea to avoid the scammers- and phishers phishing emails link.
And I think for hiding your email from the beginning you don't have to go through this process you can easily done this on the registration form of bitcointalk forum by checkmark the box.

[Stable090]

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Everything is alright but the things you are suggesting or sharing , you already don't apply on yourself .
We are seeing that your email  on your screenshot, I think you forgot to remove or blur that part.
Any way there is no doubt that email hiding is also a good idea to avoid the scammers- and phishers phishing emails link.
And I think for hiding your email from the beginning you don't have to go through this process you can easily done this on the registration form of bitcointalk forum by checkmark the box.

I think it’s better you read other members comments first before you make your own comment, if you read all the posts that are ahead of you, then you will know that I applied it to myself. I already said it more than once that the email that you are seeing in my post is fake, I decided to edit my main email and replace it with the one you are seeing on the screenshot when I wanted to make this post.