Personally I've always used my proper business email address. If a prospective client has to fiddle about or, even worse, fill in a form they just move on to the next till they find an email address they can click on and say "hi, I need ...., can you help me?".

How often have you, in looking for something via the web, moved right on because there was no clear email address or phone number? I know I do, always. How many successful companies hide their precise contact (email, phone number and location) information? Spam emails, just delete. I especially like the ones that want me to buy something to enhance a part of anatomy I don't have

Just my two pennyworth.

Lynne

My hosting company received an alert because of the visibility of my email address on my site, and they wanted me to change it. Since I use it everywhere, that wasn't an option, but I did change to spelling out the address with 'at' and 'dot' etc. I hope I got around the inconvenience of it by repeating it lots of times on my website, and also having a contact form which visitors can fill in and send without revealing my email.

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Mary H. Ruth/Virtual Writing & Communications
http://www.writingVA.com

I need to add a contact form since my email address is readable when you hover over the 'contact me' and such on my site. I did spell out the address on my privacy policy.

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Jenny McKinney
http://www.offsiteofficepro.com

Darn guys, earlier today I was browsing around here and saw a topic about email address "encryption" (not sure if that was what it was called ) that Tess or Hamid or someone created...basically you could use that on your site(s) and your email addy would be protected from harvesters, etc.

If I find the topic again I'll post a link to it, or if anyone else finds it, please post.

ETA: I found the link! It's an email encoder - very cool!
Quick email encoder - antispam

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Jules, SunRise Virtual Solutions - WordPress Customization & XHTML/CSS Web Sites

Thanks Jules! I am going to check this out now.

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Crystal Coleman, The Northern Edge

Read this - my clients have been getting them too.
http://acswebservices.com/blog/2009/...ame-companies/

Thanks, Jules. I'm going to check this out too. Between the email harvesters and the Twitter spam I'm sure getting a jaded opinion of the Internet world.

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Jenny McKinney
http://www.offsiteofficepro.com

So, Kathie, this must be the newest scheme to make money. I wonder how many unsuspecting people will fall for this.

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Jenny McKinney
http://www.offsiteofficepro.com

Originally Posted by Offsite Office Professionals

So, Kathie, this must be the newest scheme to make money. I wonder how many unsuspecting people will fall for this.

It's been around for awhile but of course, there are always new people buying domains. My clients know to check with me first when they get domain renewal notices as I am the one that registers the domains for them in the first place (I provide webhosting and domain registrations as part of my service). I thought it best to write that blogpost on my webhosting site to alert others to the dangers of this. And this isn't the only letter, there have been others before them over the past few years. And people will fall for them - they always do.