It also keeps such spam out of your main email box. In the office, use a Web-based email account instead of your work email address for receiving personal emails. If your company has a policy against personal use of work email systems, or if you don t want to risk your employer seeing your personal messages, this is a simple and free solution. But remember Web-based emails are frequently less secure from privacy intrusions than email through your Internet Service Provider. Never give out your email address in an open chat room or post it on an open message board.
Spammers often use software spiders to grab email addresses from chat rooms and message boards.