This page is a spam trap. Its job is to feed junk to the software spammers use to collect email addresses off the web, so the lists they build are packed with addresses that do not work. It has been running on AuditMyPC in one form or another since the early 2000s, and the bots have never stopped walking into it.
Every address below is fake. Fifty new ones are generated each time the page loads, and the link at the bottom of the page leads right back here, so a harvesting bot that follows it just keeps stuffing its database with duds.
How the trap works
Spammers run programs that crawl the web page by page and grab anything that looks like an email address. Those lists get used for spam runs, then resold to other spammers. A list full of fakes hurts them twice. Messages to dead addresses bounce, and heavy bouncing gets a sender flagged and blocked faster. And a database stuffed with duds is worth less to whoever planned to sell it.
One page cannot stop spam. What it can do is make the harvesting side of the business a little less profitable, and that is the part of the fight a web page can actually join.
Does address harvesting still happen?
Harvesting is not the whole spam story anymore. Plenty of spam today runs on addresses leaked in data breaches, and no web page can poison those lists. But scraper bots still crawl the web every day looking for addresses posted in plain sight. The trap URLs this site used twenty years ago still get bot hits, which is how we know the crawlers never quit.
Keep your own address out of their lists
The best protection is to never publish your real address as plain text on a web page. Use a contact form instead, or write the address in a way only a person can read. Once an address is harvested it gets traded around for years, so this is one of the few spam problems you can head off before it starts.
Want to help?
When a harvesting bot crawls your site, it follows your links hoping to find more addresses. Link to this page and every bot that visits you gets a ticket straight into the trap. One line of code does it:
A little gift for spam bots
Everything below this line is for the bots. Every address is made up on the spot. We hope they take it all in.