Advanced Email Extractor Found My Address

Toddzbox · Joined: Jul 29, 2004 Posts: 23

First post.

I ONLY use Advanced Email Extractor (a spammers tool) to establish email formats of company websites so that I can (try) to email the boss etc. It doesn't always work, I know.

I opened a complaint ticket with a non-OEM company call Trust who distribute scanners etc in Europe (It's a driver issue) After poor results from my request for help, I decided to email the help desk person direct. I had his name, so I used AEE to scan Trust.com for email formats.

It was mainly gobbledegook, but one line of the report shocked me -

steve.TakeThisOut@removedfortheobvious.cn http://www.trust.com/service/sss/default.a...=14160&q=87&a=0

If I use the URL if ind myself at Trust support page, logged in, reporting on various products I have never bought from Trust.

Is this interesting, or am I being stupid?

Steve

kamenloko · Joined: Aug 18, 2005 Posts: 20

Why did you use spammers tool :angry: :angry: :angry:

goretsky · Posted: Sat Aug 20, 2005 4:46 am Post subject:

Hello,

I am not particularly familiar with Advanced Email Extractor, but based on your description of what occurred and my own cursory understanding, it sounds like Trust has (or had) a web page up with all of their customer's email addresses on it.

Another possibility might be that the program was looking at a page which was cached in your web browser's temporary file folder.

Those are just guesses on my part, though.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky