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Finding Information With a Reverse Email Search

On the surface, an email address may not appear to provide much insight into the person behind that email address. However, in many cases, even a seemingly non-descriptive email address can provide a wealth of information about the person who uses it. Here is some of the information that you can receive from a reverse email search, and some tips on how you can perform your own, albeit limited, reverse email lookups.

Reverse email search
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Much like your full name, your email address can say a lot about you. This can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it. While your email address may appear non-descript and innocuous on the surface, it can, unfortunately, be an investigative nightmare waiting to happen if somebody is trying to find out information on you.

Some of the information that may come available during a reverse email search includes:

* Their ISP or internet service provider
* Their place of work or business
* Their full name, address, or other contact information
* Their internet usage habits – websites that they visit or have accounts at
* Their friends, family members, or associates
* Organizations they are affiliated with or associations they belong to

Especially for those who use the internet frequently — for work or play — it is usually relatively easy to locate information about this type of person based on their email address alone.

DIY reverse email search tips

While in-depth and detailed results from an email lookup can usually only be found through the help of a professional reverse email lookup service, you may be able to find a bit of information about a person behind an email address yourself. Quite simply, if you can use a search engine, you can perform your own limited reverse email research. Here’s how you can do that.

Step 1 – take apart the email address

Email addresses are made up of two parts — the username and the domain name, and a valid email address is in the format of username@domainname.com. For simple reverse email lookups, you’ll want to concentrate on the username, or sometimes called the handle, portion of the email address. In many cases, this part of the email address alone is enough to help you identify some information about the person who uses the email address.

See, when most people create email addresses, they tend to use a username that represents them. They’ll use their full name, parts of their name like firstname last initital or last name first initial, or they’ll use a username that they use in other locations online. Seldom will the average person create an email address that isn’t somehow directly tied to them as an individual or business.

Step 2 – use a search engine to search for their username

To potentially locate information on this person, you just need to search for their username in a search engine. For example, if you want to perform a reverse email search on hopper9010@gmail.com, you’ll want to search for ‘hopper9010’ in Google or another major search engine. While this is a very simplified version of how to perform a reverse email lookup yourself, sometimes it is this easy to find out some basic information on a person behind an email address.

Reverse email search services can provide a lot of information about the person behind the email address. However, unless you’re just looking for basic information, you’ll probably need the help of a reverse email investigation service to get you a full range of details on the email address your curious about.

January 16, 2010 - Posted by | Uncategorized | ,

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