A contact form that doesn’t put your email at risk
This post was published 2 years 6 months 18 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.If you own a website and have yet to find that illusive contact form which would a) allow visitors to reach out to you via email, and b) prevent unnecessary spam from landing in your inbox, Contactify may be the solution to your problem. Contactify acts as the intermediary between your visitors and your inbox. Rather than simply dropping your email somewhere within your website – accessible by both innocent readers and vicious spam bots, send visitors to your unique Contactify web form and let them do the contact me message filtering.
Visitors who click on a unique Contactify link will be taken to a web form which hides your email address making it a little bit harder for spammers to send their oh so useful messages.
Does a simple PHP contact form not do the same thing?
I guess this is meant for people who have their own websites, but are n00bs, because yeah, I’m pretty sure a PHP form does exactly that.
Of course this is for boobs. Actually this works very well for WordPress.com users, or anyone else who does not have access to actual backend code.
have you seen this service which relays emails to your account.
It worked like this:
Your email address is someone@non-real.com
You want to register a new account on XYZ’s webpage… so you goto the service, and create a new email address: someone-xyz@non-real.com.
You start receiving messages from XYZ… then later XYZ sells your email address (someone-xyz@non-real.com) to a spam artist.
So you just log into the service and delete the email alias for someone-xyz@non-real.com now you don’t have to contend with all that junk mail.
I read about this about 5 years ago, but have since forgotten the provider.
Any ideas?
@roy
gmail somewhat does this : all emails sent to xyz+someone@gmail.com will be recieved by someone@gmail.com so just block xyz+someone@gmail.com if you start recieving spam there
@hitsuji, thanks for I’ll have a look.