Scramble your e-mail address

***Brian Turner*** · 04-01-2004, 02:13 PM

Heres a nice little tool for generating your email into hexadecimal form.

Hopefully it will cut down on spam some...
http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/services/co...en-mailto.html

***Brian Turner*** · 14-01-2004, 10:23 PM

Well, I tried to scramble the words "mailto:" - but it doesn't get parsed.

Anyway, I've tried this on my own britecorp site - let's see if it keeps away those "your site is not listed on the major search engines" spam.

Webby Muller · 30-01-2005, 01:43 PM

We all know that spambots crawl our websites to extract email addresses. Call this function below to to give more than they bargained for...He he he

function give()
{
$max_times = 100;

function random_word()
{
$seed = (integer) md5(microtime());
mt_srand($seed);
$word = mt_rand(1,99999999);
$word = substr(md5($word), mt_rand(0, 19), mt_rand(6, 12));
return $word;
}
//loop $max_times
for($i = 0;$i <= $max_times;$i++)
{
$msg = random_word();
$msg2 = random_word();

echo "<a href=\"<A href="mailto:$msg@$msg2.com\">email">mailto:$msg@$ msg2.com\">email address $i</a>";
echo "<br>";
}
}
?>

***Brian Turner*** · 30-01-2005, 01:53 PM

Looks interesting - and welcome to Platinax, Webby Muller.

**bumfluff** · 02-02-2005, 01:59 AM

The last redesign, I just used a Flash button for the mailto... I've heard that some email harvesters can read swf files, but so far I've not received any spam to that address.

Webby Muller · 02-02-2005, 09:11 PM

I admitted defeat, on the "mailto harvesting Issue" 8 months ago. I only use forms now. Not the ones where you can simply view the so-called "hidden" field usually named recipient.
Even with forms, I still get people asking bogus questions, just to get my reply email. Since I removed my email links and, put in forms I get less enquiries.

In addition, your email can just as easily end up on a spammers DB from websites which have an email link to you. For example, your local Chamber of Commerce.

I have no idea of the how "advanced" members of this forum are, so apologies if my postings appear childish and/or obvious

Webby Muller · 02-02-2005, 09:25 PM

Your right spambots can get email addresses from swf s
regardez the code below as an example:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<TITLE>Untitled-1</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<A HREF=mailto:you@yours.com></A> 
<OBJECT classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...ersion=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" id="Untitled-1" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Untitled-1.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="Untitled-1.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" NAME="Untitled-1" ALIGN=""
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="<A href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED">http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>
</BODY>
</HTML>

**bumfluff** · 03-02-2005, 01:17 AM

I guess I've just been lucky so far. The address on my site is only visible if you open up the .swf and view it as text. If I do end up getting spam from it, I'll look into encoding it, but I'm working on a new version of the site anyway so theres no point my changing it for now.

04-01-2004, 02:13 PM	#1 (permalink)
*Brian Turner* Business Guru Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Near Inverness, Highlands, Scotland Posts: 7,716	Scramble your e-mail address Heres a nice little tool for generating your email into hexadecimal form. Hopefully it will cut down on spam some... http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/services/co...en-mailto.html __________________ SEO specialist

14-01-2004, 10:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
*Brian Turner* Business Guru Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Near Inverness, Highlands, Scotland Posts: 7,716	Re: Scramble your e-mail address Well, I tried to scramble the words "mailto:" - but it doesn't get parsed. Anyway, I've tried this on my own britecorp site - let's see if it keeps away those "your site is not listed on the major search engines" spam. __________________ SEO specialist

30-01-2005, 01:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
Webby Muller Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: East Sussex UK Posts: 7	Re: Scramble your e-mail address We all know that spambots crawl our websites to extract email addresses. Call this function below to to give more than they bargained for...He he he function give() { $max_times = 100; function random_word() { $seed = (integer) md5(microtime()); mt_srand($seed); $word = mt_rand(1,99999999); $word = substr(md5($word), mt_rand(0, 19), mt_rand(6, 12)); return $word; } //loop $max_times for($i = 0;$i <= $max_times;$i++) { $msg = random_word(); $msg2 = random_word(); echo "<a href=\"<A href="mailto:$msg@$msg2.com\">email">mailto:$msg@$ msg2.com\">email address $i</a>"; echo "<br>"; } } ?>

30-01-2005, 01:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
*Brian Turner* Business Guru Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Near Inverness, Highlands, Scotland Posts: 7,716	Re: Scramble your e-mail address Looks interesting - and welcome to Platinax, Webby Muller. __________________ SEO specialist

02-02-2005, 01:59 AM	#5 (permalink)
bumfluff Super Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: London Posts: 1,300	Re: Scramble your e-mail address The last redesign, I just used a Flash button for the mailto... I've heard that some email harvesters can read swf files, but so far I've not received any spam to that address. __________________ _________ seed design

02-02-2005, 09:11 PM	#6 (permalink)
Webby Muller Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: East Sussex UK Posts: 7	Re: Scramble your e-mail address I admitted defeat, on the "mailto harvesting Issue" 8 months ago. I only use forms now. Not the ones where you can simply view the so-called "hidden" field usually named recipient. Even with forms, I still get people asking bogus questions, just to get my reply email. Since I removed my email links and, put in forms I get less enquiries. In addition, your email can just as easily end up on a spammers DB from websites which have an email link to you. For example, your local Chamber of Commerce. I have no idea of the how "advanced" members of this forum are, so apologies if my postings appear childish and/or obvious

02-02-2005, 09:25 PM	#7 (permalink)
Webby Muller Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: East Sussex UK Posts: 7	Re: Scramble your e-mail address Your right spambots can get email addresses from swf s regardez the code below as an example: <HTML> <HEAD> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <TITLE>Untitled-1</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <!-- URL's used in the movie--> <A HREF=mailto:you@yours.com></A> <!-- text used in the movie--> <OBJECT classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...ersion=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" id="Untitled-1" ALIGN=""> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Untitled-1.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="Untitled-1.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" NAME="Untitled-1" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="<A href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED">http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED> </OBJECT> </BODY> </HTML>

03-02-2005, 01:17 AM	#8 (permalink)
bumfluff Super Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: London Posts: 1,300	Re: Scramble your e-mail address I guess I've just been lucky so far. The address on my site is only visible if you open up the .swf and view it as text. If I do end up getting spam from it, I'll look into encoding it, but I'm working on a new version of the site anyway so theres no point my changing it for now. __________________ _________ seed design

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