Free Websites to help you Avoid Spam

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It’s really common for a spam bot to easily steal email addresses written on websites and blogs.They collect e-mail addresses from the Internet in order to build mailing lists for sending unsolicited e-maila known as spam. Their purpose is to gather e-mail addresses from Web sites, newsgroups, special-interest group (SIG) postings, and chat-room conversations. Because e-mail addresses have a distinctive format, spambots are easy to write.

Following are some of the free web-services that can help you fight against these kind of bots and avoid spam.

Mailinator

Mailinator is a free disposable email service that promises to protect your identity on the internet. It allows you to easily create an on-the-spot email identity that provides anonymity and fights web inertia in one easy step.

It doesn’t really require any registration and helps thousands of people every day avoid spam. Simply create your free email id that is followed by “@Mailinator” and check your inbox after sharing it with any anonymous person out there.

The company had  introduced a feature in March which adds “Alternate Inboxes” to Mailinator and can definitely come in handy. For example, if you check any inbox on Mailinator (say, binkypop), listed on the page is the alternate inbox name. All alternate inbox names start with “M8R-”. For example, for binkypop, the alternate inbox name is  M8R-yg1hkn@mailinator.com.

HideText

Another great way to avoid spam is HideText. A free web service that allows you convert text to an image. This means you can easily hide passwords, personal messages, pieces of code, or any kind of private information on forums, blogposts, emails, irc, msn-aim chats. Your text becomes unGoogleable and leaves no traces at all.

Spam Proof Email Generator

Here’s something similar to HideText. Spam Proof Email Generator is considered nothing but a simply program that helps you fight against a Spam Bot that crawls a website and gathers all the email addresses written there. Since they’re are not able to read images and won’t get a chance to copy your email address.

You can easily fool these bots by simply using the form on the website to create a picture of your email address.

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