Did you ever wonder why you are getting those spam emails?

Well here are two possibilities and a way around them.

1) Most likely you have a contact page for your customers to fill their information. The contact page can be used by spammers to send you those emails too. To stop these kinds of spams, you use CAPTCHA image on the contact page. You can see it used on this site when you try leaving your comments to a blog. You are asked to type in what you see in an image. Spamming tools (robots) cannot see the image thus stopping them from spamming you.

Here is a free, elegant tool to implement CATCHA image.

Here is a working example I built for a site. You need PHP knowledge to implement this.

I have explained it all in my blog.

2)Second possibility is embedding email address on your web pages which is harvested by spiders.

These can be tricked by dynamically creating the email address using Javascript which cannot be seen by these spiders.