If you’re an avid internet user you must be used to seeing your inbox getting swamped with 20-30 spam emails on a daily basis. Reports have it that spam makes up 50% of email traffic. One of the easiest ways to get scammed of a clean inbox is to input your e-mail on a random webpage. Spam bots will eventually find the address and spam your e-mail account. Spam bots refer to those computer programs that scour the virtual world searching for email addresses. These are then inserted into a central database from where huge volumes of junk emails are sent. If a spam bot comes across your email address, you are sure to be bombarded with mails containing sales offers of products that you probably do not need.
However, there is a method by which you can include your e-mail address on a webpage without being bombarded with junk mail. Thus, your inbox is saved from being flooded with useless data that wastes space. You would be required to make an image file of the email addresses that you have. The spam bots are designed in a manner to search through text to snatch up email addresses, but they are not able to read an image. Therefore, when your email address is in the form of an image, there are lesser chances of you getting spammed.
Another way to circumvent spam bots in their efforts is to use a script while writing your email address. This means that while your email address would be visible to the human eye, it would be able to hide itself from spam bots. One of the best ways to prevent your email address from being barraged by a deluge of emails is by making sure that it does not appear in the internet. You can write your email address without using the ‘@’ symbol. One way to do this is to write it out: myusername (at) mywebsite (dot) com. This will fool the spam bots that are programmed to pick up your email address.
Using these methods offers protection against being picked up by spam bots. You will fare much better with spam bots if you put these techniques to use. Apart from employing these methods, you should also always keep in mind not to reveal your email address in online bulletins or public forums that can be easily found by any email harvesting software.
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