Find Any Email Address
June 10, 2013
In a world where the Internet has become second nature, email addresses have become as valuable as gold. The CustDevHacks article “7 Tips for Finding Anyone’s Email Address” gives readers some tips on how to find email addresses.
“Email hustling is always a big part of customer development and acquisition. Sometimes the hardest part of a large email campaign is simply finding the addresses of the people you want to connect with.”
The first tip is really very simple. Start by looking at social profiles, business and personal sites that have anything to do with your initial target. Gmail along with the Rapportive plugin is another beneficial tool. Users open a new message and enter their guess in the To line and Rapportive will look up the email addresses and let you know if it is a legitimate address. Another option is to simply try and guess the email address. The article lists some common email address formats to help point you in the right direction. If all else fails ask a friend. Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter can be very helpful when reaching out to your network. Another option is to try domain searching in Google and see what you can find. If they have an active Twitter account you can try and get a message out to them. If all else fails you can look up the WHOIS information for any domain that your target may be associated with and see if you can find some creditable contact information or you check the contact information on the SSL certificates for any sites that might be related to the target. The author does offer some helpful tips but one must wonder if this is conducting research or just hacking. Seems like a thin line between the two.
April Holmes, June 10, 2013
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