This Site was not designed to outline all aspects of "Junk E-Mail" but to help preventing
E-Mail SPAM.
How "Spammers" get your e-mail address?
- Stripping it off the UserNet
- Stripping it off Your web Pages
- Stripping it off privately owned bulletin boards
- Spammers still looking for the other ways finding e-mail addresses on the Internet in big chunks
In fact thanks to the modern software development one can strip your e-mail address virtually from
any list, no matter how much effort you put in hiding it.
Let's say your e-mail address is: "your_name@domain.com"
so you add some string to use it "safely" on the UserNet and now it reads:
"your_name@domainREMOVE_THIS.com"
You're safe now! - NOT AT ALL.
Check out our sample script that strips out
many keywords automatically.
Here is another example of how your e-mail can be stripped right from your web page. Just enter the URL of
the page where e-mail link is present:
(it may not work on some servers as Tripod, Angelfire etc.). We do not collect the address, we just show it for
you as a test and nothing more!
If you want to see what spammers see on our Guestbook page, enter this URL above
http://www.getfree.org/guest/
Over the years of dealing with SPAM we've developed a few rules that may be acceptable
for you.
- DO NOT send reply to unsolicited e-mail messages (remove from the list etc.)
- DO NOT post your e-mail address on the UserNet (just use something like "aa@aa.ccc
so everybody would understand that it is a fake)
- If you can avoid it - do not make e-mail link with your address on the bottom
of your Web Pages. Use scripts that hide your address 100%
- Keep your e-mail address private
The other way people try to prevent their e-mail address from being picked up by the Spam robots on the web
pages is to convert plain text (ASCII) to the Unicode. So the regular line like SAMPLE would look like this
in HTML code:
SAMPLE
There are claims that e-mail link formatted this way is safe from being snatched by the e-mail collectors.
NOT AT ALL. Do not take our word for it. Enter your character line and click the appropriate button to convert:
Character replacement is very fast and easy procedure in any enviroment and done with minor
changes to the program if not used in current e-mail extractor. In fact spiders use character replacement all
the time.
Lets put it this way. If you could encode it - it can be decoded even faster than you've encoded it. In
reality spiders do not really care how you've formatted the page - they'll read it anyway.
To read more about E-Mail Spam please visit any of the following web sites: