Recently, one of our clients complained about receiving a large amounts of unwanted mails (SPAMS). After some preliminary checking, we realised that our client has, against our advise, put his email address back on to his contact us page.

This is one of the things that we should NEVER do unless we are prepared for the onslaught of unregistered mails.

Out in the internet, professional spammers actually run spiders that crawl through each and every webpage to extract out email addresses to run their email campaigns from Viagra to Nigerian Scams to Imitation Watches.

To protect our email addresses from being illegally harvested, we should never leave it on the contact us page. Instead, we should encourage our customers to contact us directly through the contact us form.

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