You aren’t aware when a bot (a program that runs around on the Internet) captures your email address from different places where you keep typing them and sends it to its maker (the real email spammer) who later on uses that email address to fill your inbox with all sorts of email spam. Bots are designed to crawl around the Internet all the time. They do not sleep and they are plenty in number. Henceforth, your emails are never safe if you have ever typed them anywhere on the Internet. In this guide I will list down literally every possible way to hide your email from the weird email spammers. By the way, if you still aren’t sure why you should hide email address from email spammers then just pass on your email to me and request me to send you real spam. Then you will come to know what real spam is. It’s dirty and you just cannot get rid of it that easily!
Tactics used by email spammers to accomplish their missions
The usual that bots use to search for email addresses is by searching for the ‘@’ symbol. Once they grab the @ symbol then the search for characters on both sides of @ so as to find a pattern which looks like an email address like test@test.com! Once they catch something that matches the patters they want then they grab such set of characters (which is actually our email address) and save it in their database. Email spammers later on use this list to make money in every possible sense.
Should I Buy Any Of The Email Hiding Softwares Available On The Internet?
The simple answer to above question is NO! These softwares are nothing but simple piece of code which is also available for free on the Internet or if you have some programming knowledge then you can go ahead and code your own script. It ain’t tricky! Here I will list some tricks that will help you hide email address from email spammers though they will be easily accessible to your friends and readers.
Simply Replace The Vulnerable Symbols
As I said above, email spammers create bots that look for @ symbol to harvest email addresses. Once you remove this symbol then you have almost foiled their major technique. All you need to do is replace @ with ‘AT’ and something similar. Like test@test.com can be written as:
- test AT test DOT com
- test_AT_test_DOT_com
- test (at) test.com
It just depends on your imagination.
Email Obfuscators
As the tag says, email obfuscators create a weird looking email address out of our pretty looking email thus totally confusing the email spammers. They actually convert each character of your email into ASCII characters henceforth making it something which no way looks like an email address. Just check this simple to use tool to understand what an email obfuscater does.
Manually Change @ And MAILTO Characters To Their Corresponding ASCII Characters
mailto: can be replace with mailto
and @ can be replaced with @
Once you do this replacement then your anchor tag will look like:
<a href = “mailtotest@test.com” >my email</a>
Use CSS To Reverse The Direction Of Your Email
Just check the simple CSS code mentioned below:
<style type=”text/css”> .backwards {unicode-bidi:bidi-override; direction: rtl;} </style>
<span>moc.test@test</span>
When you use this code then your email address will be displayed properly on the screen but behind the screens it will actually be written in reverse order. This is enough to fool email spammers and their crazy bots.
Use Flash To Fool Email Spammers
Go ahead and create a .swf file which will also have an mailto: behavior embedded in it. The action in the button that will be required to extract the email will be:
on (release){ getURL (“mailto:” +recipient+ “?cc=” + cc + “&subject=” + subject + “&body=” +body) }
Remember that if the computer being used on the other side has no Macromedia flash installed in it then the email address will not be displayed.
JavaScript Your Email To Fool Email Spammers
There are plenty of java scripts that can be used to fool email spammers and hide your email address. Let me list those that are important and worth using:
– Basic Script
<script language=JavaScript>
<!–
document.write(“name” + “@” + “domain.com”);
//–> </script>
–Basic Script With HyperLink
<script language=JavaScript>
<!–
var user = “name”;
var host = “domain.com”;
var link = user + “@” + host;
document.write(“<a hre” + “f=ma” + “ilto:” + user + “@” + host + “>” + link + “</a>”);
//–> </script>
–Inline Java Script
<a href=”#” onclick=”JavaScript:window.location=’mailto:’+'name’+'@’+'domain’+’.com’” >Send me an email</a>
–External Java Script
<script language=”JavaScript” src=”email-encoding.js”></script>
This contains the code of top 2 scripts.
Use Enkoder Form To Encode Your Simple HTML To Java Script
Enkoder Form will convert your simple HTML into tricky Java Script form so as to confuse email spammers and hide your email address.
Replace Text Email Address With An Image And Fool Email Spammers
Other awesome way to to hide email address is to replace simple text with an image that displays your email address. No bot can read such an image ever. Just wait for my enhanced article on using images to fool email spammers and to hide email address.
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