Email Privacy Scanner
Scan your webpage for exposed plaintext email addresses. Protect your users and organization from spam lists, phishing attacks, and automated harvesting bots.
What is Email Privacy Scanning?
Email privacy scanning helps you identify plaintext email addresses embedded in your website's HTML code. When emails are visible in the source code, they are easily collected by automated harvesting bots used by spammers and cybercriminals.
- Automated Harvesting: Software that crawls the web specifically looking for the
@symbol to build spam mailing lists. - Plaintext Exposure: Mentioning an email directly in text or a
mailto:link without protection. - Source Code Audit: This tool looks at the underlying HTML that bots see, not just the visual page.
Why Protect Your Email Addresses?
Once an email address is harvested and added to a "spam list," it is nearly impossible to remove. This leads to an endless stream of junk mail, phishing attempts, and potential security risks for your organization.
A single exposed email address can become a gateway for professional phishing campaigns. Protecting your contact info is a fundamental step in organizational security.
Best Practices for Contact Info
Follow these methods to allow users to contact you without inviting spam bots:
- Use Contact Forms: The most secure way to receive messages. The recipient's email is kept on the server and never sent to the user's browser.
- JavaScript Obfuscation: Use scripts to dynamically generate email links only when a user interacts with the page, confusing most simple bots.
- Email Mapping: Use "info [at] domain.com" format. While some advanced bots can read this, it still stops basic scrapers.
- CSS Content: Use CSS
::afterpseudo-elements to display the domain part of an email, which bots rarely parse.
How to Use This Tool
Enter the URL of the page you want to scan (e.g., your homepage or contact page) and click "Scan". We will analyze the page's HTML for any plaintext email addresses and provide a report of what we found and where they are exposed.
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