UTC this needs a good title It was referenced in a comment immediately below the post by a user chsh1989 at hotmail com a I don t think that is relevant and think it could be removed and b It has been proven that adding stuff like person at example dot com in an email address will not prevent spammers from getting your email I m too lazy to cite that but someone set up a web page with seven test emails each mangled in some way Then a year and a half later they measured the volume of the spam received to each address in megabytes 01 37 16 April 2015