Anti-Spam E-mail Address Encoder

Want to frustrate (most) e-mail address harvesters out there? Most spam operations get e-mail addresses by scraping them off websites. Using the encoder tool on this webpage, you can potentially stop your e-mail address from being harvested. Go to the tool I made here.

How does this work? The encoder basically encodes each character of your e-mail address into a “character entity reference”. This entity reference is rendered into their character equivalents in your browser so you won’t see any difference there but they exist as encoded characters (the char. entity reference) when you look into the page source. It is this encoding that will frustrate e-mail address harvesters because to them it will look like jibberish. At least until e-mail address harvesters figure out how to decode them!