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Looks like all this is doing is trying every combo of first name, last name, initials, etc @ company's website the person was employed by. Nothing new here tha
by selectout 13y ago
Looks like all this is doing is trying every combo of first name, last name, initials, etc @ company's website the person was employed by.
Nothing new here that's actually hacking in though, just checking the combos for a positive return form rapportive (or really could just be pinging the email servers).
With that said it is in a nice and "consumer" friendly system, but even if this gets shut down you can do it manually very easily and always have been able to.
- dmourati 13y agoI don't think it is that simple. I just tried with a colleague I met but whose email I did not know. It returned his gmail account.
- selectout 13y agoThey could easily be testing many of the gmail + yahoo + other popular accounts as well, doing google searches in the background for "name@gmail.com AND company" to see if the person appears or maybe it really is more than what I thought. I just thought this way originally because it showed "26 results" for a friend I looked up that I'm not connected to before it gave me the 1 final result that was his email. The 26 results as it was loading showed everything from first@company.com (not active), firstlast@company.com (not active), firstLetterlastName@company.com (not active), etc. EDIT: So based on it showing so many false positives it looks like it's just queuing up all possibilities than returning whatever it finds works.
- eli 13y agoWhatever it's doing, it's doing it on sellhacks server. It makes a call to app.sellhack.com.
- jwcrux 13y agoI believe you are correct: http://blog.sellhack.com/post/75825344472/why-we-built-sellhack http://blog.sellhack.com/post/75825344472/why-we-built-sellh...