Warning About Amazon Prime Email !

just doing that basic stuff will keep you much more secure from Phishing scams.

p.s. another word of advice which can further secure ones Gmail email account... use a YubiKey (I suggest two of the basic USB based ones (although to you will need a device that has a USB port in order to sign-into your Gmail account once YubiKey is active on that account) which are the cheapest (about $40 for two of them) ; www.yubico.com/ (that's their official website)) as then someone can't take over your email as since many important things a person does online is tied to a email it's a nice peace of mind having a YubiKey tied to ones Google account(gmail) since even if someone Phished you out of your username/password for you Google account, they still can't access it if you have a YubiKey on it and you ain't got to worry about someone taking over your Gmail account and resetting passwords etc for other websites you got tied to that email etc. or for other random services... use two-factor authentication when possible. but for sites that support YubiKey it's the most secure form of two-factor authentication since it can be bypassed even if someone gets a hold of your username/password to your gmail account. but as usual... I strongly recommend people use a password manager (i.e. you only need to remember one good password which then that password manager stores all of the log-in info for your other websites) as this way you have a unique/secure password for each website you use as then you don't have to worry about if your password becomes compromised one one account of it being used against you on others since each site you use will have a different password (basically the damage will be quite limited that way). because a lot of people use the same crappy password for multiple sites they use online and if that one password becomes compromised, then potentially those shady people could take over your other accounts etc which you definitely don't want happening on important sites like banking etc.

NOTE: the reason I said you need two YubiKey's is while technically one will work, if you happen to lose that key it's going to be quite difficult getting back into ones account. but if you have two YubiKey's, if you happen to lose one, you can still use the other to login to ones Gmail account and then simply remove the lost key, buy another YubiKey, register it, and you now have two YubiKey's active on your account again. so just store one in a secure location and use the other for general usage.

autumn

Using email is fine, just follow the general advice I mentioned (on how to avoid Phishing scams and use a proper password manager (never use the same crap password for multiple sites that are important to you as this fails basic online security for those who use the same crap password on multiple sites)) and chances are you will be fine.

also, it would not be a bad idea to have a couple of emails (say Gmail. I would avoid Yahoo due to major hacks years ago now)... one you give out for less important stuff and keep another for more important stuff like banking or when you order stuff online etc as that should help minimize any shady emails to your important email. but like I say... just by never clicking anything in a email you were not directly expecting and manually going to a website by typing it into your browser will pretty much stop Phishing scams.

but a lot of those shady types out there rely on fear, catching you off-guard so you react without thinking. but just by assuming all emails are suspect (unless you expected them of course etc) should keep your risk at a minimum right off the start.