Scraping emails from websites

August 26th, 2009 by sandra

Ever wondered where spammers get your email address so they can send in those wonderful emails about enlarging parts of you body that you dont have or trying to flog pills or watches, well chances are they took it off your own website.  Using a programme, spammers can scrape email addresses off websites, hence you get lots of spam.  A few years ago I landed into work with 1279 emails awaiting me, tankfully not all work but I did have to delete all the spam, 1272 of them, which took some time. 

Do you want to ensure your email address cannot be scraped?  Use this Email Address Encoder tool http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html. Its easy and best of all its free.