5 Reverse email lookup tools

Find out more about the person behind that mysterious email address with the help of reverse email lookup tools. Using just an email address, you can find out a person's name, job, information about their company, social media profiles, all in a couple of minutes. A few tools go even a step further providing you with crunchier details such as the employee’s phone number, IP address or annual revenue… 🫢

A wide variety of reverse email lookup services resources are at your disposal, from free options to premium subscription-based databases.

So let’s answer some FAQS and spill some tea people.

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Google search

The kind of solution you find immediately when you type “how to” on youtube looking for a tutorial.

As you must know, google knows stuff. It is one of the quickest and most hassle-free ways to track someone down and is therefore considered as a reverse email lookup service. Since Google's search engine can access nearly all of the information on the internet, anywhere in the world, finding data and identifying a specific person becomes pretty much effortless. Beware of fake email accounts and profiles though, lots of scams out there.

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👍 Thumbs up:  Free, quick and easy/ large database of email accounts

👎 Thumbs down: You can’t be a hundred percent sure of what you get (no email verification)/ possible not to find any results

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Reverse contact

Reverse contact is a data enrichment software developed, by Visum, to find LinkedIn profiles from an email address. Specialized in B2B data enrichment, it is perfect for high-volume/speed prospection in outreach and clueless sales interns that need fast easy ways to go through their neverending list of leads.

All they’ll need to do is upload the email list via their CRM and voila! Get your contact information in a couple minutes: full name, social network, company name and professional info.

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👍 Thumbs up: Easy, efficient, reliable / has a great rate of return on personal emails/ email validation automated contact updates/ real-time enrichment/ chrome extension/ free trial/ different pricing plans/ API

👎 Thumbs down: Paid service for high volume/ can only enrich from emails

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Emailsherlock

Like a true detective, and scammers nightmare, Emailsherlock help track down rightful owners of mystery Gmail accounts (and other email addresses yahoo, outlook etc...). This reverse email lookup tool is particularly useful for pinpointing confidential data on a person such as a location, address lookup, phone number, photos etc.. simple way to avoid social catfish and get accurate data.

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👍 Thumbs up: Easy, efficient, free / lots of information can be gathered/ many enrichment features/ free features available

👎 Thumbs down: Free features include only the name and legitimacy of the email / can often provide incorrect results / redirects you to another service to unlock more information (Spokeo)

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Spokeo

As mentioned above, Spokeo is linked to Emailsherlock and can provide with juiciest details when conducting a people search , going from his personal phone number to your dating profiles (oh yeah, that bad). This reverse email search method is also great for recruiters/head hunters who would love to do a complete background check about a potential recruit: social media accounts, aliases, public records, court records, criminal records and a long list of supposedly “confidential” data.

This tool is interesting for b2c approach, gets you a heavy flow of information about your lead and lets you decide what’s best to keep in mind 😉

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👍 Thumbs up: Easy, efficient/ various types of information can be gathered/ Deep web search

👎 humbs down: No free trial/ information can be incorrect/ personal data revealed

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Info-perso

The close cousin of spokeo and people finder, Info perso is also a great data enrichement tool in the B2C sector, provider of reverse photo/email/address/name search tool, to verify and provide you  with realiable basic (and confidential) information about your leads. Great for marketing purposes in cold calling/emailing campaigns.

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👍 Thumbs up: Easy, efficent/ offers lots of features/ free trial

👎 Thumbs down: Payed service/ Poor rate of return on personal emails/ no free trial