Spammers get email addresses from a variety of sources including guessing. Businesses will often have common emails like ’support@domain.com’ or ’sales@domain.com’ and make them easy targets for spam. There are also domains that have thousands, even millions of email accounts, like Hotmail, which also make it easy to guess. It’s a pretty safe bet that someone has the address ‘john@hotmail.com’
To make it harder for spammers to guess your email try adding extra characters. You can also make it harder to guess by increasing the length of the address to make it harder to guess. Instead of ’support@domain’ you could make it ‘2468support@domain.com’ or ‘123John123@hotmail.com’.
It may sound weird at first but people who contact you regularly will add you to their address book so it doesn’t matter how obscure your address is.
