I have three email addresses. One of these is published on the website of an organisation I am the secretary of and I get hundreds of spam emails. I have become more savvy and protected the other two by not making them public in an email form. I get no spam at these addresses. For instance I always put cutesecretsanta(at)yahoo(dot)com if I type this address in the forum. not using the @ sign particularly, stops the spammers automatic search for email addresses.
Unfortunately the secretsanta address appeared in full a couple of times last week and now, the spam has started to flow in!
I am not criticising those who gave the address - it was entirely my fault for not explaining my quirky system at the start. However, I have posted this message in the hope it might help some of you in the future.
When I get spam-mails I click on them and send them back to sender with my mac-program so that the sender gets a message that the adress didn't exist.
I also have more than one adress and try to keep my "private adress" for the important things. Have one for my business and one for all my embroidery-NL. Only problem is that my paypal-account is conected to the private-account and this caused some mistakes (even here on cute when I renew my membership).
Thank you for the tip with the writing (at)---(dot)
Grettings, Bettina
