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Geek Speak: Do you fear having your email address visible to spammers?

Posted: Mar 20, 2009 by Steve Pham | with no comments |
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Well have no fear, because Scrim is here!  Scrim is a wonderful new tool that masks your email address from the spam bots that scour the internet to find an email to send their "spicy meat" to.  Think of Scrim as Tinyurl for your email address (why didn't I think of this?), you simply enter in your email address and let Scrim do its business.  After it works its magic, you get a URL that a user will have to click on and correctly select the captcha to reveal your email address.  I created a fake email address for fun (ieatspamforbreakfast@fakemail.com) and this is what Scrim created: http://scr.im/15b

Oh yea, did i mention you get 12 characters to create your own link?  Unfortunately, if you already created a randomly generated link for your email address you are stuck with it.  So now place your email address freely on the web and let Scrim do the spam fighting for you. 


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