collecting email

This how-to describes in detail how to collect live, real email addresses from live, real people around the world. Most importantly, it will show you how you can collect 10 000 e-mails in less than 5 minutes work!

In addition, this How-to will help you collect additional information about your target: like photo; full name; list of friends; and potentially also mail address; phone numbers and list their favourite books.

So let’s get on with it!

1. Set up an email box on Yahoo, Google or similar tool

This is easy. Just pop on over to; Yahoo Mail; Google Mail; or any other free web based e-mail services out there. I know you are able to set up the account without my help.

Get back here and move to step two when you are done!

Set the e-mail to automatically forward all e-mails to a different account, preferably on a system you can control – either directly, or by POP/IMAP. You want to do this to save you some work later one!

You do not want to use your own name, though, but you knew that, right?

2. Get a Facebook (or pick any other social networking site) account

Just register with a plausible name (Jim Johnson, Donna James or similar). This is free, and typically available to anyone, and this is where you will meet your victims. Consider using the same name as in step one, this adds to credibility.

TIP: You may consider using a western name, preferably a woman name, as it sounds less daunting and more secure.

Now, it is out of the scope of this How-to to discuss how to set up your account. So, I just skip on to the next part, and you do too as soon as your Facebook account is up and running!

3. Set up a group on Facebook

And yes, you guessed it; how to set up the group is out of the scope of this group. But believe you me, it is plenty easy!!

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Why you need it? This is where you will plant your seeds of seduction – where you will promote your give-away, and where your victims will understand why it is so important to give you their e-mail address for free – no strings attached!

So, now you got a group on Facebook. Time to use it!

4. Add a prize!

When you want something, you should always offer something. The bigger, and more realistic, the prize, the better it is! Here is one example:

Yes, I noted more realistic above, I know…But – the purpose is to offer something that is realistic to your victims – and they are not as smart as you are, obviously. Thus, this one count as realistic.

And, unless you really want to do so, there is no need to actually give away the prize. I would strongly suggest you do NOT give it away, and use it yourself instead. Or spend your cash on something else. Your victims will never know they did not win.

Period.

5. Ask for something simple/cheap compared to the prize

By asking for something that is perceived as not dangerous to give you – like an e-mail address – you are more likely to succeed. But we do now that most anyone will be happy to share their favourite password if you give them a chocolate, so do as you like. On the other side, when you get the e-mail, you got plenty of opportunity to ask for more later on too.

So go ahead and ask for it! Make sure you add your collecting e-mail box where they can send their request for the prize, giving away their name and e-mail. Put it out there – like this:

And voila – now you got a large amount of e-mail addresses available. Addresses you can use to send nice offers of pills, travels and other stuff your customers pay you to offer to your list!

6. Collect and use

Now you have a large amount of e-mails on your account, it is time to download and put them to work. By installing any kind of e-mail harvesting tool on your e-mail client (many available, find your favourit), you are now able to take the e-mail addresses and their corresponding names from your in-box, and into a database tool.

And as e-mails keeps coming in, your database grows. High quality e-mails with real people on the other side. A great value to spammers.

So start selling it to the highest bidder!

And if someone complains about getting spam? Well, that is not what you are doing, of course. You only provide your customers with fresh e-mail addresses with real people on the receiving side!

The emails are collected, and you may now use them to send out outrages offers of pills, lottery winners and other nice-to-have stuff. But, why stop there?

Get back tomorrow to read about how to build a complete profile of your targets! That part is a Bonus – where I tell you how to collect more than only the e-mail and name of your victims – where I tell you how you can build a full profile of your victim!