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SpamWars Toolbox
Three tools that can help you decode mail message bodies and URLs that have been obfuscated by spammers. (JavaScript must be enabled in your browser to use these tools.)
A Tip from Danny
Danny Goodman If one marketer has your email and physical addresses available for sale, then any other email database owners can quickly (through a technique known in the list business as appending) add that information to their databases, as well. [from Chapter 6, "How Spammers Get Your Email Address"]
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A collection of tools and resources to help you fight spam.
Deobfuscator for "&#n;" Character References (Entities)

STEP 1 Cropmark Locate text in a spam's source code that contains character references, such as .. Copy the source code and paste it into the following text box:

STEP 2 Cropmark Click here:

STEP 3 Cropmark Read the results rendered below:




USE WITH CAUTION  Cropmark This convertor uses your browser's rendering engine to perform some final conversions. If the content contains an HTML tag for an image, and the URL for that image contains a Web bug identifying your email address, your email address may be conveyed to the spammer's server. Decoding the URL by itself (without the <img> tag) is safe. The sample text provided with this page converts and renders harmlessly.