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The above are just a few instances in which your email address could end up in a
bad place, and even worse, you account details count end up compromised.
This doesn't necessarily mean that you should never use your email to sign up for
different places or of course, to share with friends and family (etc). It just means
you need to be far more conscious of where you are using your email.
One helpful suggestion is to create ANOTHER email account for signing up to
different forums and services around the web. Then you can choose to FORWARD
the emails from that account to your main email account.
Nearly all email providers will allow you to forward your emails from one address
to another, along with a myriad of different forwarding options.
This means you can keep junk email exclusive to a different account and create
extensive filters to take care of that. Allowing you to keep your main email
account free and safe of that sort of compromise.
** NOTE: If you follow the steps in this course for setting up a secure password
and account security question - you shouldn't have to worry as much about a
user name and password database leak.
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