1. Scramble your email address
A scrambled eMail address can look like this: directorypond [at] gmail dot com. It requires an attentive and intelligent mind to recognize a scrambled eMail address and re-assemble it into a functional format. It’s the most simplest way to stop spam bots to scan your email from webpages.

2. Hide your email address in an image
A similar solution is to hide the email address within an image. You can search several online tools that will do this for you. One which provides many other functions is EmailCover. It produces an image containing your email address in a CAPTCHA format, and also host the image and provide you with a set of links you can use to embed the image in your website, signature or on social network sites. The alternative tool is Email Icon Generator.

3. Encode your Email address
If you must post an active email link to give visitors a quick and easy way to contact you, you can encode your email address which extracts eMail addresses from websites. Mail TO Encoder will decode your eMail address using Javascript.

4. Hide eMail behind a test
scr.im is a very useful tool that will provide you with an ultra short scrimmed URL, along with custom HTML to share your email address on Twitter, Facebook within HTML documents and in forums. The link will lead anyone needing your email address to a quick test. If they manage to pass the test for rewarding with a fully active email address.

5. Use a temporary contact form
Whspr! allows you to create a temporary contact form, which will relay messages to your email address. Users have to prove they are human by passing a CAPTCHA test.