Email Security and Saftey Tips for Domestic Violence and Stalking Victims, Part 2. Best Practices for Vivtim Privacy
What Can People See When You Send them an Email?
Here is Part 1 in how to design your email name in a more secure fashion.
-Read this one as well.
Information Victims of Abuse May Need To Hide When Sending Emails
Even after making sure your email name doesn't reveal any of information,
(maybe you even use and turn on a VPN too before accessing your email,
in case your abuser gets fancy).
we forgot what we put into two categories when creating our email.
Another O.P.S.E.C. Mistake:
Or, maybe we mistakenly use our work email to contact someone we trust (give them as little information as possible,
in case their device gets stalk-ware installed in it too).
A) 🛑Display Name*
Today I noticed an email I received, had the first and last name of the person who sent it to me.
B) 🛑 Email Signature*
They also had their professional social media links, website, workplace, office number and picture at the bottom.
- 💡 Again, think about what information you do and don’t want shared here, for your personal and business emails.
Take this Simple Privacy and Security Step Now
Go to your email settings and look for:
- Identity/Address/Signature/Email Design tabs and options
💡 2) Look at the Privacy Setting settings, and other options-settings you have while you’re there!
Questions to Ask Yourself
What does your sent emails tell others?
A) Display Name
Is yours set up showing your first and last name?
B) How can I check it?
If you want to check it out, go to Mail.com and create an email address.
Use your email address(s) and send an email to the Mail.com one.
⚠️Whats the Risk?
Whether your a victim of stalking and domestic abuse or not,
giving out your first and last name allows people to learn about you:
- Where you work
- Where you live
- Social media sites
- Blogs (maybe ones you wrote years ago)
— Your email address can give away alot too (even if you follow the article above I wrote),
if you make one other mistake!
⬇I’ll Show you how NOT too Below⬇
Listing Your Email Elsewhere
→⚠️Forgotten Email and Searching Security
By listing ways to be contacted on other websites (such as your email or number).
Have you listed your email on any:
-Social Media
-Business you own
or
-Websites you run, help out with online
maybe you listed your email on a webpage for customers to contact you at?
You may have listed one of your emails as a way to contact you on another platform (including in a social media profiles)
Impact
This site you listed your email on,
gets pulled up if someone searches that email*.
Potential-Partial Solution:
💡Firefox Browser has a few features that I like.
*Please note, I can’t cover eberything about every service.
-They add-change features,
so always give their main website a good look too.✅ Surfshark (best known for its VPN),
is a bit more complete and holistic in what it offers you though.For example:
It has a plan that offers Alternate ID.This generates an email for you when you fill out forms on websites.
It helps you create a (partial) new alias online.
Their One plus plans also has a data broker removal service (incogni),
which does help cover some of the mistakes you will may make.🚫 Not all of your O.P.S.E.C. mistakes of yours though,
one of which I go over later in the article, which relates to:
-If you use an email and post in on another site-social media post, website.
And with this information (the email and anything else that comes up with it)
and the wrong intent,
potentially much more can be discovered about you,
especially if the person uses certain types of paid sites.
Solutions
🔒Ways Stalking Victims Can Protect Themselves Using Email
A) Email Aliases and Related Services:
I will list a few below.
Let me say this, they can be a little complicated and confusing.
Some are free, some are not.
Heads Up
I have not set one up yet.So you will have to try these out for yourself.
Email Alias Through Current Provider
especially if your email provider doesn’t offer an email alias,which is probably the easiest way to go.
A) Emails Alias and Email Relay Providers
The terms are pretty interchangeable.
The basics is, they allow you you to give out a secondary email address,
that others will send email to.
Then this secondary email,
will forward the email to your main email address.
Each services has different features, but that is the basics of how it hides your email.
Some emails (like gmail), I think allow you to set up this feature too.
-Again, use a VPN when accessing your email relay, in case your abuser gets fancy.
B) Email Forwarding Services
Gmail:
More Complex Way with Gmail:
Apple Mail:
Apple Private Email Relay
(Perplexity AI gave me this one)
“Part of Apple’s Hide My Email feature
-Generates unique, random email addresses (e.g. a1b2c3@privaterelay.appleid.com)
-Forwards emails to your real Apple ID email address
-Integrated with Apple devices and services”
Having Another email for strangers/online forms
C) Mail.com is good for this. …(((article on layered system)))
My Recommendation Per Display names (for your relay services too!)
Don’t Reveal Your Last Name your display name
Also, if your first name is very unique,
that along with information your share over the email or conversation,
can be used to find you too.
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