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We all have email addresses. We use them for various purposes. Some use them for bad. But many of us use email addresses for good purposes to carry out our day to day life. There are some factors you must consider when you use your email addresses (free or paid email services). You might have given your email address to various websites, forums, blogs, etc. By doing this you expose your email address to the public. Anyone can use it for any purpose then. In this post I wish to explain you about the consequences that can happen if you do so without having a thought too much.

First thing is the using your email address for scams by cyber pirates (I prefer to call them like that :-)). I have experienced this and I have put posts regarding these scams before using one of my real experiences. These cyber pirates are searching the internet for email addresses every day. They find those email addresses mainly from freely available sources like forums and blogs. If you have added your email address in those, you might have received these scam emails already and you also might have get caught and lost money. I recommend you to read my posts on the category “Scams” to get a good understanding about these scam emails. In a nutshell, you’ll receive these types of emails asking your help to transfer a large amount of money and indicating that you will be paid a portion of that money.

Next thing is get caught into trouble by making unseen friends or lovers. After some email exchanges, many people fall in love or in a friendship even without seeing or knowing the person at the other end. These good and honest feelings of yours are can be used by various underworld people like drug dealers. If you trust them without finding out more details, the chance of getting into trouble is higher. You might contact a person that you know. But there is a chance of the real person contacting you might be another one. Therefore you must find about the person who is writing emails to you. The best way is having a chat with a web cam. Then at least you can see that person. Unless you are fully satisfied with that person’s behavior, never take actions even that person talk to you with friendly and enchanting words.

The last thing is receiving various unwanted emails as spam. This will become a headache if you receive them hundreds per day. And sometimes you will buy various products which are not needed by reading those emails. This will definitely waste your hardly earned money.

If you think twice before giving your email address in public, you will be able to keep away from those troubles. I hope that you will think more about before publishing your email address in public.