Localism Leaks Email Addresses= SPAM

Kinda disappointed.

Today I got a spam that was sent to an email address ONLY given to ActiveRain.com. So when I got the spam to that address (which is why each account I sign up for has a different email address) I knew there was a leak.

ActiveRain was, for me, the posterchild for how to keep email addresses secure and away from spammers. I constantly point to how they use a webform to hide the agent's email address away from spammers.

But then I find out that Localism, the sister site to Activerain, decided not to use this system. THey instead decided to have a clickable link (see example) to the email address (yes they use some javascript to hide it from crawlers). But now spammers pay companies in India $2 an hour to manually troll cites for local targetted email addresses. The spam I got was for a night club partying company in the DC area.

I hope Activerain will go back to their webform ways.

Have I said recently how much I hate spam?

Frank

Here is the company that did the spamming: PartyDigest.com