Always hide your forum email address after registration.

[imamusma]

I didn’t notice if it’s always hidden by default, I was just going through my account recently and I came across it, then I decided to check if people can see my email, after making sure that it’s hidden, then I decided to start thinking about risk associated with leaving your email address public. With your email public, your account can be easily hacked, am sure most newbies might not even know this.

Your account email will be hidden by default, so you don't have to worry about that. But if you deliberately display your account email in your profile after setting your preferences, then it means you have considered the risk. But you know, some users only use disposable emails for their accounts, so they are not too worried about the risks. But of course it will make it difficult for them to recover the account if it is hacked or stolen.

A security tip to prevent you from being exposed to risky threats is to not display your sensitive data anywhere online. Consider not posting your active email anywhere, and preferably using a different email than your account email if you decide to register on some other online platform. This will prevent your main email from getting spam or phishing, so I think you should know about it.

[Coyster]

Some managers are high rank members of the forum, it will be better if they can adjust their rules, I see no reason why they should publish users email address and telegram username on spreadsheet, even if they need those details, it should be kept private not public where everyone can see and copy it, am sure lots of people will have been scammed just because managers publish their details on spreadsheet and scammers were able to have access to it and the scammer will start communicating with the user.

Bounty managers expect their participants to know some basic security tips such as having multiple email addresses, you set them apart, some for trusted websites, some throwaway ones for untrusted website and for public exposure, thus whenever you receive an email in your throwaway email addresses, you'd be extra careful how you'd handle them, and you might just decide never to open any email received in it. Having said that, next time one wants to apply in a bounty that requires posting your email address, let them use their throwaway email address, and as for your TG username, do not respond to unsolicited messages if you receive them.

[Alucard1]

You can also use another email for this forum, that is also what I am doing, I have different emails for different platforms and social media accounts. There is no sense in hiding your email address here because it is only an email, but then if you dont want to you can do what the OP's saying.
If you are using different email, try to make different passwords for each email as well, do not use one password for all the emails that you are using that is risky.

[Davidvictorson]

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.

Before, I used to leave my email address set to public video until one day  I read a topic like this and then I weighed the pros and cons. There was just too much to lose having built my account from the ground up. Losing it would affect mental health. In addition, we know that a lot of people are on this forum with different motives and intentions so one cannot be too over careful. If you are a newbie, please follow the OP's advice. Hide you email address even if do not understand it yet.

[Stable090]

Bounty managers expect their participants to know some basic security tips such as having multiple email addresses,

To be honest just few percent of newbies will know about it, most of them use their main email address for all registration, which at the end their email address might even be complicated and everything connected to the email address will be affected. Some managers always request for email address but they are always making sure it’s kept hidden and not public on spreadsheet, but we shouldn’t trust even the bounty managers, some low managers might end up selling hunters information to scammers even if it is not published on spreadsheet. But I know reputable managers won’t want to spoil their reputation so they won’t wan to do that. The best thing to do is just have separate email address for bounty activities.

[GeorgeJohn]

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

Sometimes people doesn't use their main email for bounty, and another purpose of making their email used for creation of bitcointalk account hidden is because of hackers, and besides people who hackes email does not value email that doesn't have a merit, so I believe that, they are only targeting a grown-up account so that they can sell to another country person to use, so it's advisable to hide your emails, because checking across no prominent user of this forum the email is not hidden via the profile, I think  they have a tangible reason that is in place.

[blue Snow]

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.

Yes, I remembered that (email hidden by default), If I want to create more new accounts here, 1st time I have to do is hidden online. For me (hidden online), it's 1 thing crucial also for your privacy. So when people look at you Online, that is possible (if they try to scam you) and they will message you. I just remembered when I was still a newbie, someone message me suddenly when online. he spoke at length where the point is to invite me to join the investment. But, because I was still a newbie and don't have money, I ignored him.

[dzungmobile]

Yes, I remembered that (email hidden by default), If I want to create more new accounts here, 1st time I have to do is hidden online. For me (hidden online), it's 1 thing crucial also for your privacy. So when people look at you Online, that is possible (if they try to scam you) and they will message you.

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The forum cares about user privacy so default, email address is hidden. It is user responsibility to show it and forget to hide it later.

About the Online status, I know what you meant but if someone targets you, he will send you a personal message no matter you are online or offline. Mostly scammers will use newbie account to do that, so as a prevention, you can turn this on off "Allow newbies to send you PMs." in Personal message options.

I just remembered when I was still a newbie, someone message me suddenly when online. he spoke at length where the point is to invite me to join the investment. But, because I was still a newbie and don't have money, I ignored him.

Usually, DM first and send invitation to join investment, ask you to send money first is very possibly scam.

[Rigon]

You can also use another email for this forum, that is also what I am doing, I have different emails for different platforms and social media accounts. There is no sense in hiding your email address here because it is only an email, but then if you dont want to you can do what the OP's saying.
If you are using different email, try to make different passwords for each email as well, do not use one password for all the emails that you are using that is risky.

All these things are personal matters. In this case, if you think that you will use multiple email accounts in different places, that is your personal matter. But the most important thing in this case is that you must remember the password that you use for multiple emails. If you forget any email password then you will be in trouble. In this case, I want to tell you that if you create multiple emails, it is better not to give different passwords. Because what do you do when your phone is broken or stolen? Then you cannot recover it in any way. Again, if you want to work here, you have to create accounts on different websites, you cannot remember them by creating different passwords. Write in the notebook If your notebook is stolen then all your efforts will be in vain. So whatever you do, do it carefully.

[asawale]

Now I can guess right about where the emails containing the series of malicious links come from. They always ask to update my metamask wallet with links to follow. This is really helpful for us as newbies.

[summonerrk]

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I think that the best security rules would be to register a new mailbox for each service on which you register. And of course use different strong passwords for them.

Previously, there were bounty companies where you also had to connect Facebook, Instagram, and of course Twitter. Everyone has seen your addresses, all the information about you. At the same time, it was unwise to use a new account - it was appreciated how many subscribers you have, which means that people connected their Main accounts. The author of the post is right - you need to try to spread a little information about yourself.

Unfortunately, in my case, this will not work - because I am an Artist, I am a public person.

[Dzwaafu11]

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.

Yea. Mate I believe @Erumo should accept the op's explanation without further discussion. It is obvious that the forum has a default that, once an account has been registered, the default will automatically hide the user's email until you decide to leave it open for everyone, which, if caution is not exercised, puts your account at risk of being hacked. Some people use different addresses for bounty, which I believe is another approach to secure your privacy since even if they try to steal your account using that mail, they won't be able to. Therefore, just because you see an email on someone's profile doesn't indicate that is his primary email.

[lalabotax]

It is exactly our choice and it will relate to the kind of having more privacy. Morover those who are not joining any bounty programs. I do agree that I also prefer to hide my forum email in my profile. And for some people here, they may not use their exatc email similarly in their registration profile email and in the bounty spreadsheet.
This will not be a big matter. But once more, this is an option to be more privacy. So, fhere is nothing wrong with this.