How to protect and hide your email address from spam when online
Posted on November 30, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Looking for something to hide or protect your email address from spammers? Are you working for a company where you are somewhat important and you have your own profile online with your contact information, such as a phone number email address, etc? After the initial pleasure of being listed online, true pain sets in when you have to scroll through hundreds and thousands spam email messages every day!
For anyone who has to or must put their contact information online, especially an email address, you’re creating a nightmare for yourself unless you learn how to protect and hide your email address from spam. It’s actually not really that hard and will save you lots of time having to delete and sort through lots of spam mail.
So for anyone (not just special people at your company) who wants to be able to put their email address onto a webpage without fear of it being spammed to death, you need to check out a really cool web service.
MailPic will help you protect your email box from spam. Here’s how it works: simply enter your email address, configure some options for font and colors, and MailPic will generate a picture version of your email address. By using a picture, it is almost impossible for spammers to find your email address and send you spam mail. It’s just like all of those verification boxes you have to fill out whenever you sign up for something.
Click Submit, and you’ll get your email address shown as a picture in about 6 different sizes depending on how big or small you want it. You can click Show Code for HTML for your website, code for forums, and code for Wikis.
Here’s an example of my email address as a picture in a couple of different sizes and colors:
Overall, MailPic is one simple and effective way to protect your email address from any kind of online spam bots. It’s free and easy to use, just copy and paste the code onto your blog or web site! Enjoy!
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Looks like a nice tool. I have been a victim of spam because I openly display my email will try to use this to create images.
Keith, there are a couple of more tools like this out there, but this one is really easy to use to protect email addresses against spam.
I actually use a service from Nexodyne. The graphics with the email images make them look a little more attractive as well!