{"id":546,"date":"2007-08-17T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmaster.www.websitesinaflash.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T23:52:58","slug":"keeping-your-email-address-away-from-spammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.websitesinaflash.com\/2007\/08\/keeping-your-email-address-away-from-spammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping your Email Address Away from Spammers"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many ways that spammers use to acquire email addresses. Some set up fake websites that request emails, and say they’ll give you a 1337″ flat screen TV if you do. Others buy the addresses or hack databases for them, etc.<\/p>\n

Some have bots that search the internet for email addresses. The bots search a web pages code for “*@*.com” for example (where * = any amount of characters.) Some bots also search for “mailto:*@*.com” which is the HTML code that you would use to allow a user to click on the link to email you.<\/p>\n

Is there a solution? Yes there is! You can replace the certain characters that the bots search for with their html entity code.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

“&#109;” translates into “m”<\/p>\n

Phoenix Development put together a little form that will automatically turn your email address into unrecognizable gibberish, that will be translated fine by an Internet Browser.<\/p>\n

Search for Email Encoder<\/p>\n

-“Spammers are annoying”
\n-Ashton Sanders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are many ways that spammers use to acquire email addresses. Some set up fake websites that request emails, and say they’ll give you a 1337″ flat...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[141,143,146,148,330],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitesinaflash.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitesinaflash.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitesinaflash.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitesinaflash.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitesinaflash.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitesinaflash.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websitesinaflash.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitesinaflash.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websitesinaflash.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}