Mário Andrade Web Design, CSS, HTML, Information Architecture

E-mail spam filter with jQuery

One practice I find important to incorporate in all web projects is protecting emails on the website from possible spammers but still allowing humans to view it and understand they are looking at an email and without removing it’s functionality if it’s an email link. Email spam filter services are increasing and becoming a very lucrative market, especially in the corporate world.

Spammers use automatic spiders to crawl web pages in order to find emails and gathering them on monstrous databases to be sell all over the world. Luckily for the developers the fact that they use automatic robots means you can trick them into not finding the email pattern on web pages.