Prevent spammers from harvesting your email address by scrambling it.

One of the ways that spammers obtain your email address is by sending automated programs called robots out to crawl your website. 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 "you@youremail.com" looks like this:

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 "you@youremail.com" but now the HTML looks like this:

This email scrambler, developed by Austex Websites is free to use. If you feel that it is of value to you and would like to help us with our hosting costs, a donation of any amount would be much appreciated. Thanks!

This process is known as "munging" an email address, or using an "email munger". Technically, a spambot could be programmed to decipher the ASCII code, but spammers are 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 and click "SCRAMBLE!".
A box will appear with your scrambled email code. Just copy the code and replace your unscrambled email in the HTML of your web page.