Hotmail or Hotmail?

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Fake it

Without any doubt, the Number One collector's item on the internet today is: E-mail addresses.

An increasing number of websites - not this one - ask their visitors for en email address. Then they use this address to bombard you with SPAM. They even trade addresses, so you end up on a lot of spammers mailinglist.

One way to circumvent this, is by giving a fake email address. I prefer faking both the part before the @ and also the domain name after the @.

So:

peter@hotmail.com

won't do. Hotmail.com is a real domain and they are sure to have a user called Peter.

Instead I use something like:

cheatingisok@hotmaiI.com

"Cheating is OK" is probably not an existing user name, but "hotmail.com" is an existing domain name. - Wrong!

I used the domain name "hotmaiI.com".

But I used the popular font Ariel. And in Ariel the "l" and the "I" look the same. Below I have written it in 3 different fonts: Verdana, which is used on this website, Ariel, which is the most widely used font and Courier New which is a modern variant of the old Courier typewriting font:

verdana@hotmaiI.com

ariel@hotmaiI.com

courier@hotmaiI.com

Since Ariel is so widely used, hotmaiI is sure to course some confusion out there.

I have placed the above email addresses as normal text on a normal html web page. These pages are constantly searched for email addresses so even the fakes here will eventually get some mail. Why not send a greeting to sanserif@hotmail.com as well!?

If you want to learn how to protect email addresses on web pages, then read here.