Generally this issue relates to a CloudFlare CDN configuration.
CloudFlare has a feature called “Email Address Obfuscation“, which replaces email addresses when they think the client is bot: 
What is Email Address Obfuscation? · Cloudflare Support docs
If this feature is enabled when @ symbols are detected the string will be masked, turning off this feature in CloudFlare will generally resolve the issue.
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