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One example would be state disability programs, they already need my real name and identity to work with me. Are there any downsides to sharing a simplelogin alias containing my real name vs no containing my real name? I just think it would be easier record keeping for them.

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[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago

If possible you should always try to have the email for your real name to use for business and government stuff.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Someone took my name and I am forever a myname.2@blahblah.com

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 11 points 5 months ago

You can be first again if you get your own domain!

[-] sobriquet@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago

Get your own domain quickly! Or you might be myname@myname2.com

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Damn that sucks, I'm sorry :/

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago
[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

At my current university, I am firstname.lastname-4@university. My previous university, a much smaller one, I was fortunately firstname.lastname@otheruniversity, but the email client informed me there were two other people with my name there. It's wild because I didn't think I had a super common name.

[-] Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's better to use a custom domain or no alias at all for important personal stuff, but if your goal isn't to be unidentifiable by the organization, then you can safely use your own name in the adresses. You will still have the advantage of spam control.

One downside I can think of is that the (government) organization will know that you use a particular aliasing service, which may be problematic in some situations.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 5 months ago

Register a domain. Use all the emails. New one for everything. Uber sending spam? Blocked.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I have a Gmail for all important emails that's my real name. I'm very careful to only use it for important things. I never use it for online orders of any sort.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 9 points 5 months ago

Lol that's the one you should not use for important things

[-] chimera@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I think it’s okay, if he uses this account for government related stuff, banking, insurance, work and so on, he already lost all privacy because of them, so why should he bother with a private email for those things

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 0 points 5 months ago

So that phishing attacks go to the one with your name in it that you don't really use

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Bots don't know what's a real name or fake. They'll get delirious_owl@gmail.com from a list and phish with it no different than if JohnSmith@gmail.com was on the list.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I tried to use my real-name email for "professional" shit, but I always got vastly more action with my silly one. TBF it is kinda awesome.

[-] tuxec@infosec.pub 2 points 4 months ago

Custom domain + SimpleLogin which generates a random alias (Tip: you can have emails forwarded to multiple "real" email addresses) + fake names and other personal info

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