How to stop email spam

[mrvillicus]

I keep receiving email spam, and woorank and other review sites always point out my "plain email address"...its [email protected] and can clearly be seen on my site, so how do I stop getting spam emails? I'm getting around 10-30 a day and its driving me mad!

 

[fisicx]

Stop publishing your email address. It doesn't need to be on review sites or woorank.

Make sure you have spam assassin up and running on your server, change the email address to sales@ and obfuscate it on your website.

But now your email address is publicly available it has no doubt been sold on to the spammers. And you have published it here as well so even more spammers will know it.

 

[emulsja]

Robots can read HTML and copy emails from web sites. You shouldn't put your email directly in HTML, it is better to use some JavaScript function, which will display mail generated based on some variables.
Spammers can also generate names. When it finds your domain it will generate email address automatically. 'Admin' is probably most common.
When robot finds domain.com will generate admin domain.com, and send spam.
If your e-mail is already spammed you can remove it and create new one with other name. If you can't change the name, try to prepare redirect rule, which will automatically move such mails to Trash folder.

 

[InternetMarketingPlatinum]

Robots can read HTML and copy emails from web sites. You shouldn't put your email directly in HTML, it is better to use some JavaScript function, which will display mail generated based on some variables.
Spammers can also generate names. When it finds your domain it will generate email address automatically. 'Admin' is probably most common.
When robot finds domain.com will generate admin domain.com, and send spam.
If your e-mail is already spammed you can remove it and create new one with other name. If you can't change the name, try to prepare redirect rule, which will automatically move such mails to Trash folder.

I'd say info is the most commonly auto generated

 

[OElite]

Make sure you have spam assassin up and running on your server

Agree with fisicx - if you know what it is; otherwise find a quality mail service provider (gmail/hotmail for free/cheap business email hosting) or some good packages such as Office 365.

 

[gibby]

Sadly its something we all have to put up with and we also need to be very careful with.
Spam assasin is good and will reduce alot of it.
The challenge with email filtering is that you will lose some genuine enquires.
A "contact us " on your website is a great idea as your customer enquires will also look very similar.

Gmail is also another great option but I really would avoid Yahoo & Hotmail as they cause us no end of problems, especially as they class alot of genuine email as spam and alot of junk as OK.

Also avoid clicking unsubcribe links as often they are just verifying which email addresses are real

One of the annoying ones for us is BT. We get aot of spam from them and their different business groups.
No matter how many times we contact them as ask for all of our addresses removing, it just keeps coming