Getting e-mailed spam a lot - strange result when searching Google for e-mail address

Discussion in 'SEO' started by Spider-Man, Feb 24, 2008.

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    Hey guys and girls.

    Today I added a captcha to our websites contact forms, and any instances of our e-mail address written in plain text was rewrited in javascript to help stop the spam coming through over time. It has cut down the spam by quite a bit already, actually. But we're still getting the 'cheap photoshop' 'i am an 18 y.o. girl and im lonely tonight...' emails. Our email address is written on our website - it was written in plain text, side-wide :(

    Anyway, on our site we have the owners name written on a specific range with something along the lines of 'contact XYZ for specific details on this product' at . XYZ has replaced the name in this case. So nowhere on our site is 'XYZ@domain.co.uk' written.

    However, our emails are hosted with our ISP, Orange. So our e-mails sent through our contact forms actually are forwarded to . Now we have started to get spam sent to 'XYZ@cupargardencentre.fsnet.co.uk'.

    This e-mail was written once on one of our product suppliers site and is now in the process of being changes to a more robot-dodging variation.

    However, on this Google search, searching for the e-mail address brings up a completely unrelated website. Nowhere on that site at all is our company named or anything. The only thing in common is the XYZ part of the company e-mail address, which is actually held with a completely different ISP.

    So why does this site yield results for john[@]cupargardencentre[.]fsnet[.]co[.]uk ?

    The right answer wins a +rep. I don't know the answer, so please hit me with your thoughts.

    Thanks
     
    Spider-Man, Feb 24, 2008 IP