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1. Decode the email pattern
jane.doe@acme.com → Jane Doe at Acme. Combine the decoded username with LinkedIn's company-employee search. Works for the majority of business addresses in under thirty seconds.
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2. Google with quotes
"jane.doe@acme.com" in quotes, then add site:linkedin.com, site:github.com, site:twitter.com. Many people publish their address on personal sites, GitHub READMEs, conference bios, and old CVs.
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3. HaveIBeenPwned
Free. Tells you which services the email is registered with. Useful for confirming a real person (a SaaS founder email registered on Stripe + GitHub + AWS is clearly real) versus a role address or throwaway.
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4. LinkedIn contact import
Free. Add the email to your phone contacts, then let LinkedIn suggest it as "People You May Know". Works for personal Gmail addresses too — many people register their LinkedIn under a personal email.
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5. Free reverse-email lookup
HuntMeLeads' free tier resolves business emails to verified profiles in one click. No card required, no demo required, no salesperson to talk to.
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6. WHOIS for custom-domain emails
Free at whois.com. If the email is on a custom domain (@acme.com), WHOIS often lists the registrant's name, organization, and country — useful for solo founders and small businesses that haven't enabled WHOIS privacy.
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7. Gravatar
Free. Many email addresses have a public Gravatar profile (WordPress, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and many comment systems use it). Visit en.gravatar.com/[md5-hash-of-email] or use a Gravatar lookup tool.
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8. Reverse-image search the avatar
Free with Google Lens or TinEye. Once you find any avatar from the email (from Gravatar, breach data, or a profile photo), reverse-image search it to find every other place the same photo appears online.
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Combining free methods
No single free method is right 100% of the time. The discipline: require two independent signals before treating a match as confirmed. Email pattern + LinkedIn match = high confidence. Reverse-lookup hit + matching Gravatar = high confidence. One signal alone = a hypothesis.
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When free isn't enough
Bulk needs (more than a few dozen lookups per day), API access for product use cases, CRM sync, deliverability scoring, and mobile phone numbers are paid features on every reputable provider. The free tier is designed for evaluation and personal use — not for running an outbound team.
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HuntMeLeads offers free monthly reverse-email lookups with no credit card required. Accuracy is highest for business addresses.
Google operators, WHOIS, Gravatar, and HaveIBeenPwned all work without an account. Most reverse-lookup tools require a free signup to prevent abuse and rate-limit fairly.
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