I haven’t opened the email, I’m just looking at the preview that gmail provides and it contains the name of my email with the first character missing and most of my phone number, like I stated in the title of my post. How concerned, if at all, should I be and is there anything I should be doing?

  • Zier@fedia.io
    2·
    4 months ago

    Not worried necessarily. But as a suggestion, you could use different email addresses for different purposes. I use 1 address each for;

    1. Family
    2. Friends
    3. Banking & Financial Services
    4. Shopping
    5. Lists I’m subscribed to (not related to the above)
    6. Forums
    7. Social Media
    8. Junk And I use an email client to stay up to date with those accounts. That way when your Shopping email claims your bank has been hacked, you immediately know it’s a scam because they are not connected.
    • vortexal@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      4 months ago

      While I don’t have that many, I do already have multiple email addresses that I actively use. I also have them setup as a recovery emails for each other, so that way, if a hacker wants to take over one of my emails, they’d have to hack all of them.