Finding Anyone’s Email Address
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Finding Anyone’s Email Address
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#2The person who wrote the article suggested randomly trying common email formats. I like to do something similar, only to increase the reliability (and decrease the number of guesses), I like to use Google to find his/her company's press releases. Press releases always have at least one email address. This is a great way to figure out what format that particular company uses. It doesn't always work (and is particularly unreliable with extremely common names) but it is still better than random guesses!
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#3many of these methods will only work for very unique names (or domains). just because an email exists, doesnt mean it's the person you're looking for.
ironically, john.doe@common-domain.com will never reach a person actually named john doe.
i remember http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_protocol which was open for business on many servers in the 90s, could get a person's info by their email, etc.
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#4Jigsaw (https://www.jigsaw.com) can be a useful tool to confirm email addresses and also get direct phone numbers. An easy way to bypass their credit payment system is to click "Update All" on the contact screen and then unlock all of the fields by guessing their email address. Enter the common variations listed in this article and once you have the email format for the company you can quickly unlock their co-workers.
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#5In my experience Google employee emails are harder to find.
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#6Interesting that this is the only blog post on this site, must be brand spanking new.
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#7In my experience Google employee emails are harder to find.
Thats probably because their customer service strategy is to eliminate as much as possible any direct human-to-human contact with the company.
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#8In my experience Google employee emails are harder to find.
Actually, if the employee in question has ever contributed to one of Google's many open-source projects, it shouldn't be that hard.
For instance, just look at the history of the chromium project. You'll see lots of email addresses ending in @google.com
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#9I wrote up advice about the 'Rapportive Hack' last year, and published a spreadsheet to automate it:
http://www.distilled.net/blog/miscellaneous/find-almost-anyb...
which others have taken and improved in creative ways.
This was one of my favorite versions, which checks against Gravatar: http://linksy.me/find-email