How Email Extractors Work
An email extractor is a piece of software that is designed specifically for extracting email addresses from many different sources both on the Internet and offline. As a result, an email extractor generates a large list of email addresses in a relative short period of time from websites, HTML files and files that are located on the hard drive of your computer.
How Email Extractors Work
Email extractors are capable of extracting hundreds of email address from many places on the Internet for the purpose of sending unsolicited email campaigns to a large number of people in a matter of minutes. Although email extractors have been used for other purposes, the main use is to send spam.
Email extractors are very easy to use and can access thousands of websites in a single session by using a variety of proxies. The software is capable of channeling through many layers of the Internet to locate and extract email addresses from websites, discussion groups, social networking venues, and many other sites.
The email extractor then collects the email addresses into a file where an email message can be composed within a matter of seconds. The extractor is then programmed to send out the email message to a large list of recipients.
Email extractor software also contains a program that checks email addresses for validity and removes any duplicate addresses in the list. Some versions of email extractor software sort the email addresses according to the subject matter of the websites they were extracted from and perform multithreading tasks. Other types are capable of disguising the IP address of the sender to avoid getting shut down by an Internet Service Provider.
Email extractor software is not only used to send unsolicited email, it is also used to gather lists of email addresses that can be sold to unsuspecting marketers who do not understand the ramifications of spamming.
Email Extractor Consequences
If you use an email extractor to send massive amounts of messages you can lose your account with your Internet Service Provider. Some bulk mailers get around this by cloaking their IP address before sending the messages. ISPs shut down spammers because the massive amount of email clogs the server and slows down the transmission processes. Sending massive amounts of email can also result in a denial of service attack and can completely crash a network.
In addition to the damage that can be caused by email extractor software, in many areas of the world such as the US, spam has been outlawed and the process of harvesting email addresses using an email extraction program can result in paying significant fines or serving prison time if the offense is serious enough.
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