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==Examples== Common methods of disguising addresses include: {| class="wikitable" !Disguised address !Recovering the original address |- |no-one at example (dot) com |Replace " at " with "@", and " (dot) " with "." |- |no-one@elpmaxe.com.invalid |Reverse [[domain name]]: ''elpmaxe'' to ''example''<br>remove [[.invalid]] |- |moc.elpmaxe@eno-on |Reverse the entire address |- |no-one@exampleREMOVEME.com |Instructions in the address itself; remove REMOVEME |- |no-one@exampleNOSPAM.com.invalid |Remove NOSPAM and [[.invalid]] from the address. |- |n o - o n e @ e x a m p l e . c o m |This is still readable, but the spaces between letters stop most automatic spambots. |- |no-one<i>@</i>example<i>.</i>com (as HTML) |This is still readable and can be copied directly from webpages,<br>but stops many email harvesters. |- |''по-опе@ехатрlе.сот'' |Cannot be copied directly from Webpages, must be manually copied. All letters except l are [[Cyrillic script|Cyrillic]] [[homoglyph]]s that are identical to Latin equivalents to the human eye but are perceived differently by most computers. (See also [[IDN homograph attack]] for more malicious use of this strategy.) |- |no-one{{@}}example.com |Replace the image with "@". |} The reserved [[top-level domain]] [[.invalid]] is appended to ensure that a real e-mail address is not inadvertently generated.
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