http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2009/06/24/how-to-find-the-owner-of-a-gmail-address-reverse-email-lookup/ Computer and technology questions and answers from Andy Kaiser Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:37:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2009/06/24/how-to-find-the-owner-of-a-gmail-address-reverse-email-lookup/comment-page-1/#comment-1391 Chuck Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:57:43 +0000 http://www.andybrain.com/qna/?p=185#comment-1391 I agree with Shelly above. It's unfortunate that an individual can't do a reverse look-up to verify that respondents to classified ads are legitimate, especially when in their replies to classified postings they have two email addresses and several names. I recently posted an ad on Craig's list and got a reply from someone who stated they were at work (email address showed up as: From: Tarah Gardner but asked me to email "her" at home, so “she” could send me a photo of an item I was looking for, cause "she" couldn't respond from work (funny, because "she" just did), gave a home email address as: louiseholly104+56456@gmail.com and signed the reply: Marilyn. In using some of the free email search engines I came across registrations for these email addresses as Frankfort Maine and Sunnyvale California. Just a bit too fishy to follow up with "her" request for a reply. Thanks for the information on absence of a Google directory. Maybe someone could start a searchable database of questionable or bogus email address. I agree with Shelly above. It’s unfortunate that an individual can’t do a reverse look-up to verify that respondents to classified ads are legitimate, especially when in their replies to classified postings they have two email addresses and several names. I recently posted an ad on Craig’s list and got a reply from someone who stated they were at work (email address showed up as: From: Tarah Gardner but asked me to email “her” at home, so “she” could send me a photo of an item I was looking for, cause “she” couldn’t respond from work (funny, because “she” just did), gave a home email address as: louiseholly104+56456@gmail.com and signed the reply: Marilyn. In using some of the free email search engines I came across registrations for these email addresses as Frankfort Maine and Sunnyvale California. Just a bit too fishy to follow up with “her” request for a reply. Thanks for the information on absence of a Google directory. Maybe someone could start a searchable database of questionable or bogus email address.

]]> http://www.andybrain.com/qna/2009/06/24/how-to-find-the-owner-of-a-gmail-address-reverse-email-lookup/comment-page-1/#comment-1272 Shelly Marshall Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:13:22 +0000 http://www.andybrain.com/qna/?p=185#comment-1272 Very good info and truthful! I was trying to find "angry redneck" at gmail who is leaving abusive emails and now I know I probably won't find them "angryhick55@gmail.com" so I won't go on a futile search! Very good info and truthful! I was trying to find “angry redneck” at gmail who is leaving abusive emails and now I know I probably won’t find them “angryhick55@gmail.com” so I won’t go on a futile search!

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