Finding emails in bulk for free

Replaced it with a working link...
thanks for letting me know.

https://www.useloom.com/share/51fe04...07fb74ef2a5e85

Spam them?

Just to clarify this even further. I know many of you are thinking you cant send emails without a prior ok... And you get this from the mail services that require so when list building. What they want is compliant right? no, not really.. compliant with thier back end bandwidth needs yes.. compliant with law.. way over the top over kill.

CAN - SPAM 2003 very specifically states that it does not require e-mailers to get permission before they send marketing messages. There is no mincing of words here. This is why in many circles the " Law " is called the " YOU - CAN - SPAM " act

Compliance falls into three main categories. UnSubscribe Compliance, Content Compliance, and Sending Behavior Compliance. I copy and pasted from the Law directly the section below that bullets what is compliant from each:

Unsubscribe Compliance

• A visible and operable unsubscribe mechanism is present in all emails.
• Consumer opt-out requests are honored within 10 business days.
• Opt-out lists also known as suppression lists are used only for compliance purposes.

Content Compliance

• Accurate "From" lines
• Relevant subject lines (relative to offer in body content and not deceptive)
• A legitimate physical address of the publisher and/or advertiser is present. PO Box addresses are acceptable in compliance with 16 C.F.R. 316.2(p) and if the email is sent by a third party, the legitimate physical address of the entity, whose products or services are promoted through the email should be visible.
• A label is present if the content is adult.

Sending Behavior Compliance

• A message cannot be sent through an open relay.
• A message cannot be sent without an unsubscribe option.
• A message cannot be sent to a harvested email address.
• A message cannot contain a false header.
• A message should contain at least one sentence.
• A message cannot be null.
• Unsubscribe option should be below the message.

So I am sure some of you are smart enough to notice #3 in the last list " A message cannot be sent to a harvested email address." Pretty straight forward correct? no - not really later in the act we find this:

it is illegal to initiate commercial email to a recipient where the email address of the recipient was obtained by:

• Using an automated means that generates possible electronic mail addresses by combining names, letters, or numbers into numerous permutations.
• Using an automated means to extract electronic mail addresses from an Internet website or proprietary online service operated by another person, and such website or online service included, at the time the address was obtained, a notice stating that the operator of such website or online service will not give, sell, or otherwise transfer addresses maintained by such website or online service to any other party for the purposes of initiating, or enabling others to initiate, electronic mail messages.

So the first one is pretty obvious.. start with Bill and end with a list that is Bill9876 or the like... ok that's just silly, but I can look in my mail box and find a some piece of SPAM doing just that..

And the 2nd one.. oh this is when things get fun... technically speaking... one would have to look into the terms of use clause and search for this one. So Manta was the OP's target of choice.. so we can go here: https://www.manta.com/resources/page..._conditions%2F and find section " Your Information " and we quickly see that a statement that clarifies no 3rd party sharing.. in the case of Manta is NOT present... it is actually stipulating 3rd party sharing.. so obtaining e-mail address in the OP's manor is CAN - SPAM compliant.

To make this even a bit more fun... there is the better than average assumption that when creating a list to help boost overall conversion one must offer a free report or otherwise to obtain the email address correct? GUESS WHAT?

" ...offer a product or service free of charge as long as the user provides a valid email address " IS NOT compliant within the scope of CAN - SPAM.

The law is basically all jacked up... It is not enforced... to the extent that it could be... the services that provide e-mail services could care less about being compliant, and are simply concerned with bandwidth. Service providers jump hoops that do not exist in terms of end users that complain about what they perceive to be CAN - SPAM complaints. and honestly... I will bet for but a very select few ( the world over, let alone this forum ) have not a clue what Spamming is / or isn't in terms of the laws that govern as such.

So pretty much stop whining... follow the simple rules above, staying within the laws that are present.. and make sales.

Hope that Helps.

PS @Peter Lessard, 2 per 1000? I would say those are damn decent numbers.. my efforts usually get about a 1 in 2300 on average.

Like I am sure many of you have read me state before.. to even consider this method ( cold e-mail ) that the numbers had better be there.. my last campaign as an example was from a pool of 1 million address that took 3 weeks to send out which resulted in 437 respondents and resulted in 38 closes.

Not necessarily.

If the email addresses are harvested online (automated or manually), mailing to those addresses violates the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003..

Alex

This is actually a case i have been watching with some amount of interest. Just to clarify it is HiQ that took LinkedIn to court, and not the other way around. What gets interesting if you read the article linked is LinkedIn is fighting for members " Privacy " and HiQ is arguing the point I make in the post above about Terms of Service and YOUR information... 2 very different arguments and it is no wonder LinkedIn lost. We can share your data with search engines, but we dont want companies to mine the data for their use.. just a flat out loosing argument.

Now what gets a bit interesting in this David vs Goliath battle is exactly what HiQ does with the data it collects. They happen to be Head Hunters... You being a business owner need new talent, you hire HiQ to provide a list of talent.. and HiQ uses the " Public " data to provide prospects based on a number of calculated dispositions.. IE How long will each prospect stay with your business. ok sounds good right? read this: https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/h...ia-hiring.aspx

Skip the overall text and go right for the pinkish peachish box along the left side about 1/2 way down the article and look specifically at points #2 and #7. In essence ( being as generic with what I am about to say as possible ) but you the business owner hiring HiQ would more than likely in some way shape or form be breaking laws.

Step forward what 8 months? from the time the article was written that Ewen left a link for to Facebook / Cambridge Analytica and there is a huge blow out over " scraped " data. I will also note what separates LinkedIn/HiQ vs Facebook/Analytica is there was no legal battle for the later.. Facebook basically became a fall guy to all things " BIG DATA " even tho L A W aka HiQ vs LinkedIn/Microsoft would suggest nothing was wrong in what happened.

Like I said before... all of this at this point is just a huge jumbled mess of screwed up law that was written with some amount of good intention, but the reality is, none of it is protecting or stopping anything.

And with that I will leave you with this... I am sure many are familiar with the Manhattan Project. I am sure many know that aside from E=MC2 Einstein's only input throughout the project was SIGNING a letter urging the States to develop the bomb.. as we also know he later regretted signing the letter.

So listing off a bunch of names here... Licklider, Kleinrock, Taylor, Shapiro, Carr, Crocker, Rulifson, and Stoughton... at what point did one of these fine men that can be attributed to giving birth to the " Internet " Look back and think What the Hell did I do? LOL

Rubbish.
There is no mention of Can-Spam or any other legislation in the definition of spam.
Spam is Spam.
And Spam is not marketing.

Great question.

My experience is I've come up with more email addresses
using the custom search rather than the Google search string.

Using the Google search string for heavy usage has Google
blocking me until confirm I'm not a robot.

That has never happened using the custom search.

Best,
Ewen

Some fairly hefty fines being handed down in UK.

Example:
https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken...nance-limited/