Is it safe to give someone my email address?
Some of the "women" you are chatting with are really old men, some are federal agents looking for pedophiles, some are male Nigerian scammers, and only a very few are really legitimate women. So you might want to think twice. The pictures they will send you are not of themselves. I once got emails from different women, but oddly, the pictures they both sent me of themselves were the same. If you do anything like this you do need a totally fake address with all fake information. You can be sure that any "women" who send you a picture would have done the same. For all they know, YOU are a pedophile/federal agent/Nigerian scammer yourself. So the end result is you have one fake person sending a fake picture to another fake person. Total informational value is zero.
What is the easiest way to create new email addresses?
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What are the dangers of giving out your email address?
The risks you get are unwanted emails with malicious intent such as embedded virus/trojan/spyware/malware. You will also get a lot of spams from unkown senders. Create another email account for this. Another email account is just for your closest friends and family members and another email account for your financial transactions. Create a "bogus" email account for peer to peer websites.
Should I add my birthday number to my Gmail address, when the Gmail we want is taken? Is it safe?
Your birth date is one of the personal details that may be used by sites, either commercial or government sites, to verify your identity.Making your birth date public knowledge by including it as part of your Google account name (your Gmail user name) will help anyone who wants to steal your identity, either for access to your accounts e.g. your bank account, or to impersonate as you for whatever criminal/illegal purposes.In short: don't do it.
What's the harm of giving a stranger your email address?
What’s the harm of giving a stranger your email address?There are at least four obvious risks.Malware Downloads. Most obviously, if you send them your email address they are almost certainly going to send you an email. Then you will have to come back here and ask if it is safe to open an email from a stranger who requested your address without explanation. And it is extremely risky to open that email. Most likely it carries a malware payload that could take control of your computer. Perhaps it will encrypt your hard drive then they ask you for a payment in bitcoin for the key. Or perhaps they just install adware. In any case it is too risky to open the email so why give them an address?Phishing Attack. Also very likely is the possibility that this is someone just trying to get your email address so that they can try a phishing attack, tricking you into providing useful data using some pretext. Maybe they will try to convince you that you have inherited $1B from your uncle, a Nigerian Prince, and you just have to send them the details of your bank accounts.Catfishing Scams. Less likely but still common is the possibility is that this is the beginning of a catfishing scam, where some old guy will pretend to be a young model who likes your profile and wants to marry you. They will then ask you for money to come to stay with you, you send it and then you never hear from them again — unless they need more money.Identifying real names. If your messaging account is not in your real name then sending an email address could help them to identify you. Perhaps you are using a pseudonym for some reason and with more datapoints like an email address someone might be able to find other accounts, find real-name friends among these and thus work out your real identity.If someone has a genuine need to send you an email they can also explain why they want to do this in their original message. For example, if a journalist from the New York Times would like to interview you about a social media post they will say that. A distant relative doing ancestry research who would like to get in touch will explain why they want to contact you.And if anyone has a genuine reason to contact you they will also do this from a real name account that wasn’t created just five minutes before they contact you. The chances that anything good will come from an anonymous contact like this are essentially zero.
I use the same email id and password everywhere. Is it safe enough?
I understand that you do it for convenience of remembering the passwords for all the websites but there is Greater risk in this approach. What you need to do is you can use the same email ID for every social media and website to login but try to create different passwords which are similar almost 70% but have a different keyword/combination for every website and include some special characters in it so that it becomes Complex and hard to crack by any hacker.Now let me give you an example. Let us assume you use the same id “user@server.com” for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Uber etc. What you can do is have a password which is easy for you to remember but different for each website like:-1. for Facebook it can be tomato123fb$&.2. For Twitter it can be tomato456twit*#3. For LinkedIn it can be tomato679li()4. For Uber it can be tomato123ub+-And so on. You can also mix and match like fbtomato123$&Twittomato1212++Litomato222+++ etc
Is mail.com a safe email provider?
It’s safe. It does feature a lot of ads unless you have a premium account though.
Yahoo mail inbox, show email addresses instead of senders names in "From" list?
Not that I reckon. If I recieve one from someone I have never recieved an email from before then it sometimes shows the email address
What is a safe option for a Gmail recovery email account?
I have a recovery email, on a separate service and would not be without it. It offers peace if mind. I use it for recovery emails from several services, and for archiving ie I forward such emails to myself. I had this service before using Dropbox. I keep it going just to be safe/nostalgia/inertia/secretiveness (pick one). I started it c.2004.I don't send from the address so its quite private and forgotten. It wont be turned off if I don't use it as its a paid service. Rarely if ever see spam there. Cost c$100 for c.5 years. Which?: one of the earlier cloud mails: Fastmail. Barebones but fast and many user options. I'm sure similar exist but this service predates my Gmail. NB I am a FM paying user only, no commission, no conflicts of interest, nada.Bottom line: I do have Gmail/SMS setup and I probably also won't lose my iPhone but have dropped two Nokia phones in the last ten years and been phone less for a while. Backup from these to new model was good but I did lose some data ESP some passwords. Multiple backup options better.