Email extractors?

Howdy,

I was watching a documentary about nigerian scammers, how they use email extractors, etc. After googling it I noticed there are such programs.

This is intriguing, as it would be great for advertising.

But, how effective are these programs and what is the legality of it?

And say I got 2k emails. I send out one email a day to these email addresses. Is this considered spam?

Thank you!

 

Yes, that is considered spam and you will be facing some serious charges if caught. These email lists that you harvest will be NON-CAN SPAM compliant.

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/canspam.html

 

Yes, what you stated constitutes as Spam.

 

Thanks guys, Im going to forget about that then!

 

yeah it's spam, but there are free programs with it like net tools, it up to you what you use it for. http://users.telenet.be/ahmadi/nettools.htm

 

Wow thanks for the reference to that tool thats pretty sweet!!!!!

 

And to give you an update on punishments.

Fines of $20 per send out email isn't rare. So sending out a million spam messages will cost you approxametly around 20 million dollar.

Now can you profit more then $20 each email?

 

Haha, no , I am definitely not going to be taking this route

 

Think about what harvesting emails could do to your business. Every time a prospective client see your email, he will automatically delete it and will even include your email address on the blacklist. You'll be seen as unprofessional; worse, a scam artist.

Google and Yahoo would catch you eventually. You'll get away with the first try. After learning that email owners flagged the email as spam, Yahoo and Google will automatically place your emails in the Trash folder.