nacoran
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Sep 11, 2017
5:54 AM
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Just a reminder... if you have a profile on MBH anyone can click it, including bots. If you list your email in normal email format there are bots that can read it and add you to their spam lists, so if your email is billgates@hotmail.com and you write it that way it will recognize it and add it to their spam list. If you write it as billgates at hotmail dot com it is less likely to recognize it. Hi, my username is billgates and I use hotmail works even better.
Of course, bots will get better. One other safety tactic you can do is set up more temporary email addresses to share publically and have them forward to your more secure email- that way your secure email is never out there on a website. When the temporary email starts getting too much spam you can just switch it. (This can be a little bit of a pain... some companies require you log in fairly frequently to keep your email account active (ironically, to make it harder for spammers to have lots of accounts).
And if you do get something from a site that you don't know, don't click it! Sometimes it's just an unwanted 'legitimate' business offer, but it can also be phishing scams or outright attempts to infect your computer. The less people respond to the spammy 'legitimate' ones the less companies will see it as a viable business model. It costs them next to nothing to do it, so if they get any business they end up with a net win.
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