How to Find ANY Email Address Contact in 2 Minutes

February 13, 2013 · by Tim Sae Koo · in Methodology

Whether you are an experienced salesman looking for leads or a young kid looking to get in touch with a CEO, finding their email addresses is difficult and time-consuming. But I’ve discovered a neat little trick that can help you find any email address contact you need in 2 minutes tops. It has worked for me 90% of my time selling at Tint to Fortune 500 executives, reaching out to huge press outlets, and even getting in touch with prominent investors!

Here’s what you need to do:

1) Get a Gmail account and download Rapportive on it (http://rapportive.com).

2) “Connect your social networks” on the top right hand corner after installing Rapportive.

3) Click “Compose” on the left hand side.

After installing Rapportive, connect your social networks and click Compose.

Now here comes the fun part. Basically how Rapportive works is if you enter in a person’s valid email address, the side of the email will show the person’s social networks, general location, etc. Rapportive is meant to be a widget to give you supplemental information on a person you’re emailing, but I found out that you can take this one step further: find any person’s email address through trial-and-error until the person’s information appears.

Example of what appears if you enter a valid email address.

Now start guessing the email address and click out of the To: field after you try. Through many trial and errors I have done myself, I found out that there are 6 combinations you can try to find it and they take < 2 minutes. Let’s say I want to find Ben Gold’s email and he works at tintup.com .

1^st: ben@tintup.com

2^nd: bengold@tintup.com (or ben.gold@tintup.com)

3^rd: bgold@tintup.com

4^th: beng@tintup.com

5^th: ben_gold@tintup.com

The 6^th one is one I found out works surprisingly well. Go see if they have a Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn username. Copy that username and add @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, or @hotmail.com to the end of it.

6^th: twitterusername@gmail.com

You’ll know you found the right email address when see the person’s information appear on the right hand side like so:

And there you have it! Go ahead and try it for yourself by finding my email address (my name is Tim Sae Koo and I work at tintup.com). And if you do, say hi!

If you liked this and it worked for you, feel free to share it out to others who could benefit!

-Tim, CEO

http://twitter.com/adamloving Adam Loving

Hi Tim, I coded up a quick page (http://linksy.me/find-email) to generate email addresses and test them against gravatar. Of course, you can also paste them in and have rapportive look them up to. Can you try mine and let me know what you think?
- Ernesto
  
  Hi Adam,
  
  Thank you for your link. I tried to enter the page but the link in your comment is wrongly spelled (the closing parenthesis is attached) and get an error message. “Sorry, we can’t find that link. Contact: …”
  Regards
  Ernesto
- Ernesto
  
  Hi Adam,
  
  Wonderful ideas for creating accounts names
  I made a try using my name, and some actually existing accounts are showed as “no match” Would you check it please?
- teamtint
  
  This is awesome Adam! One thing you should mention after the tool generates all the email is to let the person know to paste it and click on each of the email addresses for Rapportive to check if it’s the one or not.
  
  What do you plan on doing with this? It’s pretty sweet!
view1234@yahoo.co.uk

you are a not only funny but a jocker shit
http://www.facebook.com/khemka.jaya Jaya Khemka

i m not able to open my facebook page on tintup.. need help
- teamtint
  
  Hey Jaya,
  
  Can you email me tim@tintup.com with your question and I can help you from there ASAP?
  
  Thanks so much and looking forward to helping,
  Tim
Fredy Fredy

It’s not working for people who have email addresses differ from their names… like blood or rain or meteor @ something