Office LifeOct 29, 2018

How do people from LinkedIn find your work email?

Obviously I don’t have my work emails listed on LinkedIn. Yet people (recruiters, salespeople, vendors) who find me from LinkedIn often email me to my work email, and this is at several different jobs now. I assume they can just guess, but it’s not always the same formation, and how can they be sure? Anyone know what they do?

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State Farm 599 Oct 29, 2018

Firstname.lastname@company.com or some pattern that can be easily guessed?

Microsoft JavaMonstr Oct 29, 2018

They may ask their friends who work at ur company to look it up for them

Apple Fruitella Oct 29, 2018

Recruiters sometimes take a contact list with them when leaving a company. And then use it at the new company by sharing leads with another recruiters. This is a clear violation of non-solicit agreement, but this happens occasionally.

Comcast keysersözæ Oct 29, 2018

The format is typically the same company wide. Once you have one email all you need to know is the name of whoever you want to email. Assuming your first and last name are accurate in LinkedIn it wouldn't be that difficult.

Sprint lxCy58 Oct 29, 2018

There are some online tools out there that scrap emails and suggest the winning first name last name pattern. Even without tools you can guess the email address and if it’s wrong you’ll get a bounce back and you can try again. Essentially you get unlimited tries for guessing someone’s email until it goes through.

Twitter 0nMyWay Oct 29, 2018

why r u even on LinkedIn? It’s useless spam. Delete your account

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