Yes you can guess an email address if you are clever
Find someone’s email address now
Are you trying to get in touch with someone that you have no contact information for but you think that it might be a good idea to send them an email? Well it’s a good idea except that you have to find their email address first.
Don’t worry, you are not alone here. I’ve found myself in the same situation several times. I like sending email because it’s quick, easy and usually relatively unobtrusive but what do you do if you don’t have the address?
The obvious answer is to use a specialist
You can spend a lot of time searching for an email address so it’s often best to go with the fastest method that has a good chance of working first. My favorite quick method is to go for an online email database specially designed to trace down email addresses for you. It’s not guaranteed that you will find the address on one of these sites but you have a very good chance of doing so.
There are literally thousands of domains and email providers on the Internet and the addresses that you are looking for could be almost any combination of letters and other characters. There is absolutely no way that any kind of compulsory registration to a central register of email addresses could ever have worked. At least if there were such a thing then email would be a lot different to what we know it as today. This is why specialist web sites have been collecting email addresses from anywhere that they can get them for years.
Email address guesswork
If you don’t find the email address you are looking for in an online email database then it’s time to get your thinking cap on and do some real Internet sleuthing to find it.
Guessing an email address isn’t easy and it requires a degree of creativity. If you can come up with a few reasonable possibilities for what the address might be then you can send them all a polite message asking them if they are the person that you are looking for. This is a bit like firing a shotgun in all directions and hoping that you hit the right spot at least once.
Before you continue you might want to make absolutely certain that you’ve never received an email from this person or a business card or perhaps even a letter written on company paper with contact details on it. If you do have one of these then finding the email address will be so much easier.
How to guess someone’s personal address
The first thing you need to guess is the email domain. Can you remember if they had a gmail.com, hotmail.com or a yahoo.com address perhaps. If you don’t know then you might use all of these as possibilities because many people use one or more of these domains for email.
Next you need to make up combinations of the persons first and last name by putting a character like a hyphen, underscore, dot or just run the two names together. Now get your list of name combinations and domains and put them together with an ‘@’ between them like this .@domain. For example john.smith@nowhere.com. Do this for all combinations to come up with a list of all possibilities. You might just have guessed the right address somewhere in this list.
How to guess a work address
If you know where the person you are looking for works then you can try guessing their corporate email address. This can often be a lot easier than guessing a personal address because corporate emails often use a more systematic approach. First find the domain for the corporate email. You can do this by looking up the web site for the business. Then look around the site for any kind of contact information that displays an email address. If you can find any address then you can examine it and have a good guess at what your persons address might be. It could be their full name with a dot in between or first initial followed by last name is a popular scheme.
Make up a list as with the personal addresses and send a polite message to each of them. Then wait to see if you get any replies.
Using an online email tracing service can be a lot easier
Well that’s the basic idea of how do I find someone’s email address by guessing and as I said, you have to be creative and a good helping of luck will help too. You may need a lot of patience to get this to work for you.
Why not try a specialist Email Tracer web site first. You might find that it’s all you need to find what you are looking for and can be a lot quicker than guessing.
Author: Steve Gee
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