Readers Respond: Best Ways to Find Email Addresses

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The potential ways to find email addresses rival the sought addresses in number — almost. Many of them work, too — almost.

What's your experience with trying to find an email address? What did you try? What worked, and what didn't? Share Your Experience

I agree with cdw350 and Mark. I tried these sites — and talk about false advertising. These people are criminals and should be banned from advertising.
—Guest Fed Up

Every "free" email search site I looked at wanted to charge me. — Bunch of lying con men. What a joke!
—Guest ken booker

There's no such thing [as a free email address search service]. All these sites are scams. They state free but all that is ever free is your effort to search. What you find after the names comes up is that you have to pay to actually see the email address itself. That's like having a restaurant advertise "free food" only to find what's free is your option to be read the menu. I have no problem with legitimate companies charging for their services. However, this is fraud and these people should be put in jail.
—cdw350

There's no such thing. All these sites are scams. They state free but all that is ever free is your effort to search. What you find after the names comes up is that you have to pay to actually see the email address itself. That's like having a restaurant advertise "free food" only to find what's free is your option to be read the menu. I have no problem with legitimate companies charging for their services However, this is fraud and these people should be put in jail.
—Guest Mark

I just checked out Spock.com, and it's not free anymore. They charge you a fee for unlimited membership.
—Guest SnoopyShorts

Heinz, Good article. You show some great tricks of the trade when figuring out people's email addresses. Typically, if you know a person's full name and know where they currently work, then you can figure out their email address. I've recently put together a free web resource that pulls together the corporate email address patterns for the largest US companies, which can be found at www.Emails4Corporations.com This resource is great for job seekers, salespeople, small business owners, or customers..anyone looking to speak with company insiders directly..
—Guest Logan Coker