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The ones that really grind my gears are the ones that clearly guessed your current work email address based on your LI profile and standard business email username formats.


Oh for sure. I bet `<first name>@<small company>` or `<first.last>@<company>` goes a very long way.

There are seem to be some techniques for verifying existence of an email address without actually emailing it.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/565504/how-to-check-if-a...

I tried the below services with a custom G Suite domain and, to my surprise, they successfully worked, even for addresses that I know have never been posted publicly (!).

https://email-checker.net/validate

https://clean.email/verifier/how-to-check-if-an-email-is-val...




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