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Email Scrambler
One of the ways that spammers obtain your email address is by sending automated programs called robots out to crawl the web. When a spam robot (spambot) recognizes an email address on a web page, it adds the email to its database of victims.
The way a spambot recognizes an email address is by reading the HTML code behind the page. The HTML for the email link "contact Steve Cook" looks like this:
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In order to prevent the spambot from recognizing the email code, we can scramble it by substituting ASCII characters for the letters and digits in the actual code. Your browser displays ASCII characters as plain text, so you still see "contact Steve Cook" but now the HTML looks like this:
Technically, a spambot could be programmed to decipher the ASCII code, but spammers are like thieves - they would much rather rob a car with a door that's unlocked.
To scramble an email address, just type it in the field below. When you submit the form a white screen will appear with your email link displayed. Just right click in the white area of the page and select "View Source" from the dropdown menu. Then copy the code and replace your unscrambled email links.
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