Spam: Just How Sophisticated Are Spamers Anyways?

BEWARE THEY ARE VERY VERY SOPHISTICATED. When I posted the Google Apps: An Office And Email Solution Every Company Should Use 2 days ago I did not think that spam would be a problem. Considering that I average at the moment only 80 users per day I never thought that this would affect me. Well I would just like to say that within those 2 days spam bots have gotten a hold of my email address and I have received and influx of spam emails. If I did not have the protection of the Gmail/Google Apps spam filter this of course would be a huge problem and it would annoy the hell out of me. I did a little research and I suggest that if you are ever going to post your email address somewhere do so under either a secondary address or replace the ‘@’ symbol with ‘[at]’. I recently discovered that with Google Apps has a feature that lets you assign email ‘Nicknames’ (nickname@yourDomain.com) that are an extension of your email address. If a nickname is getting too many email then all you have to do is create a new one and remove the old one.