How to Share and Protect Your Email Address from Spam Robots

Normally when you share your email as plain text in any forums or other classified sites, its more likely to come in spam target. Spam robots or some email harvesters can easily collect your email address from public sites and than keep sending you spam emails with useless and embarrassing offers. You might wondering how they have your email address. Here you can solve your problem with Src.im that allows you to share your email address safe way.

Src.im is a free web service which convert your email address into a short and safe link (like http://src.im/99cblog) that you can share anywhere online like Twitter, Facebook, Forums, Craigslist etc.

To get scr.im version of your email, go to Src.im site, enter your email and pick your available URL and hit the protect my email.

In next screen you will see your safe scrimmed URL

Now use this Src URL whenever you share your email address on public sites. Now when anyone will click on this URL, it will lead to this spam filter test where you have to identify the right  letters from given image.

When users pass this test, only after that they’ll able to see your email address therefore only real people will able to use it.

So people willing to see your email will go to this your src.im URL and that will reveal your email address. Spam robots or automated scripts can’t go through this test so they’ll never know your email and you won’t be a spam victim.

So give this website a try and share your safe Src.im URL.