Hey there, reporters! Hope you liked J.C.’s guest post last week.
This time I’m revisiting a tool I recommended a year ago. Initially, I only recommended their LinkedIn plugin, because their claims to find people’s emails addresses seemed a little… ambitious. Nobody can find all the emails in the world.
But! Hunter.io has turned me around.
Hunter’s shtick is that it will dig up emails on a certain domain – house.gov, for example.
You can search for a certain person, but I didn’t have much success with that. Instead, I ended up trying the most common pattern on that website: “{first}.{last}@house.gov” for example.
Here’s my usual routine:
- Look for an official’s email address with the Finder tool. Find nothing.
- Pop on over to the Verifier tool to see if there is a working email that fits my name and formula.
- Then, I hop over to Google and search for that email address (in quotes) and usually find it associated with their name somewhere in the bowels of the Internet.
- Profit!
In all seriousness, this process works way better than I thought it would, which is why I’m recommending it now. No tool is ever perfect, but this one has a very high chance of success. Good luck!