How Realistic is it to Pull personal emails Online? Details inside

[Deleted member 46958]

So, I'm working on a project that has me tasked to pull personal emails online for certain organizations by checking LinkedIn and googling a person's name plus the word "email" itself after it.

But how effective is this with privacy settings being what they are in 2020?

 

[Liquid Plejades]

Are you asking era how to hack people? 🤔

 

[Deleted member 54292]

call and ask

 

[Deleted member 41178]

Who is asking you to do this project, sounds pretty suspect unless I'm misunderstanding your explanation.

 

[Deleted member 46958]

Who is asking you to do this project, sounds pretty suspect unless I'm misunderstanding your explanation.

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So I'm trying to gather not for profit organizations to send out the message of the org I work for. But Googling someone's name plus "email" seems useless, and besides calling and asking, I can't think of any other way.

 

[Deleted member 2550]

How would you even verify it's them even if google returned results with their name and an email?

 

[Deleted member 21709]

What the fuck?

 

[capitalCORN]

Whatever enterprise you're in, I'd imagine was competent enough to subscribe to a listing service rather than letting people loose with google-fu.

 

[FormatCompatible]

Excuse me?

 

[Deleted member 41178]

So I'm trying to gather not for profit organizations to send out the message of the org I work for. But Googling someone's name plus "email" seems useless, and besides calling and asking, I can't think of any other way.

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Ah ok, so you're trying to get individual email addresses of people who work for specific organisations?

Honestly I'd say you're better off calling the company explaining and asking if they have an address that would deal with these sort of enquiries.

If my company receives unsolicited emails attempting to offer us a service etc. they are usually ignored, best case scenario we reply back and tell you who to direct the query to worst case we complain to the ISP/ESP that your email originated from for spam.

 

[jacket]

Are you asking era how to hack people? 🤔

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What the fuck?

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lmfao

 

[Squarehard]

Do you happen to work for a Nigerian Prince?

 

[davepoobond]

Sounds like a task assigned by someone desperate for leads

 

[EloKa]

There's probably a reason why people are not posting their private email address online, dunno.

 

[finalflame]

Dude, did you just admit to a crime?

 

[oliverandm]

Why not google your problem instead of googling your idea for a solution to your problem?

 

[low-G]

Trying to search for peoples' email online automatically probably hasn't worked since 1998.

 

[xxracerxx]

So I'm trying to gather not for profit organizations to send out the message of the org I work for. But Googling someone's name plus "email" seems useless, and besides calling and asking, I can't think of any other way.

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So instead of calling and asking for information...you decide to go about it in a really inefficient way? Cool.

edit: I am sorry, meant to type; COOL.

 

[Dr. Lucien Sanchez]

Is that illegal? I would assume that this is how the many personalized solicitation emails I get at work are discovered & sent. Not that hard to do name + company domain.

 

[Deepwater]

I don't know why you're asking how effective it is when you could literally try it out for yourself and see if you get a bounce back

 

[Deleted member 46958]

I don't know why you're asking how effective it is when you could literally try it out for yourself and see if you get a bounce back

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it's literally not effective.

i need to stop posting on this forum. Such vitriol on here. Goddamn.

 

[Darryl M R]

I'll pay you double in rubles to not.

 

[Deleted member 46958]

Sounds like a task assigned by someone desperate for leads

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yeah agreed. Idk why I was tasked with this it won't work.

I'll call up a few establishments and try and set up rapport that way.

 

[Deleted member 46958]

Ah ok, so you're trying to get individual email addresses of people who work for specific organisations?

Honestly I'd say you're better off calling the company explaining and asking if they have an address that would deal with these sort of enquiries.

If my company receives unsolicited emails attempting to offer us a service etc. they are usually ignored, best case scenario we reply back and tell you who to direct the query to worst case we complain to the ISP/ESP that your email originated from for spam.

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yeah thanks i'll try this out!

 

[texhnolyze]

There's a reason why lead generation is so tricky and expensive, emails are not up for grabs.

Also, it's asking for trouble, gathering then sending emails against the users' content is against GDPR.

 

[HipsterMorty]

LMFAO

 

[HipsterMorty]

Hey Siri, rob a bank for me.

 

[Deleted member 20284]

Depending on your region and industry there are official services you buy targeted email lists for e.g. in Australia it's ADMA based marketing companies. You specify demographics, regions, roles etc and pay cents/fractions of a cent per email based on those metrics. Australia has a decent opt in system with strict privacy laws adhered to as well, perhaps your country/target market is similar. You'll need to find an association that deals in this then approach one of their partner/membership companies to do this professionally for you. Saves liability and time as well as hit rate etc.

Otherwise jump on the phone and make your own lists, just get approval and the right contact person first.

 

[tokkun]

I can tell you that if you ever publish an academic paper with your email address on it, you will get random Chinese students spamming you with requests for post-doc jobs until the end of time.