Tomba finds email addresses in two ways. It collects the ones already published online, and it predicts likely ones from the format a company uses.
We collect public email addresses
Our web crawlers, programs that read public web pages, scan the internet for email addresses. They look at:
Company websites
Blog posts
PDFs
Forums
Professional directories
These addresses are already public. We store them so we can show you results quickly.
We predict likely addresses
When an address isn't public, we look at the format the company uses, such as [email protected]. We then:
Match that format with the person's name and the company's website
Check the address
Give it a confidence score from 0 to 100, which shows how reliable the address is
What we leave out
We filter out some addresses on purpose:
Personal webmail addresses, such as Gmail and Yahoo
Disposable addresses, which are temporary and stop working after a while
Duplicates
Results with a low confidence score
Why an email might not be found
Sometimes we can't show an email. This can happen when:
The address was never public, so it isn't in our data
The predicted address scored too low or failed our checks
We couldn't work out the format the company uses
People change jobs and companies change their websites, so we keep updating our data.
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