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How Do You Fool Spam Bots?

Posted by Cliff on from the email-armor dept.

ThisIsAnExampleAccou asks: "I am currently researching Spam Bots, and the various methods by which they collect addresses. While doing my research, I have started to notice the various ways that people post their email addresses to fool spam filters (i.e. bob@hottroutmail.com - go fishing to mail me) What clever ways have you seen/done to fool spambots while still letting people know how to get in contact with you?"

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  1. My solution... by cmowire · · Score: 3, Informative

    I encode the IP address of whoever's requesting the email address and the current date and time. So each request gets a unique email address.

    The file is forbidden by the robots.txt file. I don't think that it surprises anybody that it still has gotten spambotted. ;)

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