# Preventing eMail scraping and Skimming

**URL:** <https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/preventing-email-scraping-and-skimming/5275>\
**Category:** BB Theme\
**Created:** [October 30, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/preventing-email-scraping-and-skimming/5275 "2015-10-30T23:26:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![zerolimit](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/user_avatar/community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/zerolimit/32/417_2.png) [@zerolimit](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/zerolimit)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/preventing-email-scraping-and-skimming/5275/1 "2015-10-30T23:26:23Z")

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I’d love to be able to prevent email address scraping and skimming by bots and crawlers for my email address with BB. However, when I try to put in code that will “mask” my email address for Settings -\> Social Links -\> email address, the BB structure seems to strip it out, and it appears as my straight-way email address.

Any ideas on how to “mask” my email address to prevent the problem of scraping/skimming to prevent SPAM coming in?

Nick

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**Author:** ![bencarlo](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/user_avatar/community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/bencarlo/32/287_2.png) [@bencarlo](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/bencarlo)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/preventing-email-scraping-and-skimming/5275/2 "2015-10-31T20:35:10Z")

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Hey Nick,

Sorry, but the way that field works is, our theme just gets the text there and adds `mailto:` to convert it to an email link. Do you mind sharing how you’re masking it?

I’ve a few suggestions:

1. Instead of using the email field under Social icons, you can just place the link manually by using Text as content for your header/footer.
2. Just remove your email from the site and use a contact form instead.

Ben

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**Author:** ![zerolimit](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/user_avatar/community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/zerolimit/32/417_2.png) [@zerolimit](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/zerolimit)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/preventing-email-scraping-and-skimming/5275/3 "2015-11-01T10:48:04Z")

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HI Ben, thanks for the suggestions for the workaround.

Here’s a sample of what I was trying to put in the email social icons field in BB.

nic\<span style=“display:inline;”\>k@bo\</span\>\<span style=“display:inline;”\>un\</span\>\<span style=“text-align:justify;display:inline;”\>dl\</span\>\<span style=“text-align:left;display:inline;”\>e\</span\>\<span style=“text-align:justify;display:inline;”\>s\</span\>\<span style=“display:inline;text-wrap:none;”\>ssu\</span\>\<span style=“display:inline;text-align:center;”\>c\</span\>\<span style=“display:inline;”\>c\</span\>\<span style=“display:inline;”\>e\</span\>\<span style=“display:inline;text-align:center;”\>ss\</span\>\<span style=“display:inline;”\>.\</span\>\<span style=“text-align:left;display:inline;”\>c\</span\>om

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**Author:** ![bencarlo](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/user_avatar/community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/bencarlo/32/287_2.png) [@bencarlo](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/bencarlo)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 8:11am UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/preventing-email-scraping-and-skimming/5275/4 "2015-11-02T08:11:38Z")

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Hey Nick,

No worries! Yep, that’s not going to be possible as the text in that field gets attached to the mailto: link. Anyway, have fun with BB! 🙂

Ben

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**Author:** ![sognista](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/user_avatar/community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/sognista/32/268_2.png) [@sognista](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/sognista)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2016, 6:27am UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/preventing-email-scraping-and-skimming/5275/5 "2016-03-05T06:27:50Z")

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Hi Ben Carlo,  
I also am a little worried about email scraping from spammer robots.

**Could you confirm me the CONTACT FORM module of BB COVER the mail putted in the “sent to email” field?**  
Because if I see the source code, the amil shows on clear, but I am not sure if the source code is generated only in the local browser…

thanks

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**Author:** ![bencarlo](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/user_avatar/community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/bencarlo/32/287_2.png) [@bencarlo](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/bencarlo)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 8:49am UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/preventing-email-scraping-and-skimming/5275/6 "2016-03-08T08:49:40Z")

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Hey Enrico,

I’ve already filed an enhancement report for it. We should be able to make it work without the email on the markup. Thanks for the heads up! 🙂

Ben

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**Author:** ![sognista](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/user_avatar/community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/sognista/32/268_2.png) [@sognista](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/sognista)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 9:21am UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/preventing-email-scraping-and-skimming/5275/7 "2016-03-08T09:21:08Z")

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Hi Ben,  
wonderful, I hope the developers will build this upgrade soon,  
bye!

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9db1b183a7ea1efa26199a2a2b3511d742473dae.png) [@system](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/preventing-email-scraping-and-skimming/5275/8 "2019-04-27T22:19:32Z")

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