[TriLUG] Website Marketing question

matt at noway2.thruhere.net matt at noway2.thruhere.net
Tue May 15 11:37:40 EDT 2012


> As far as I know, he visited a web site, just looking around.  Shortly
> afterwards, he received an e-mail message from their sales and marketing
> people, inviting him to get in touch and get more information.
>
> If he had left information on a Contact Form, then there wouldn't be any
> question, but from what I understand, he didn't do that.
>
> I know that I get the IP address of any visitor to a web site that I
> own, but don't remember seeing anything more informative, such as the
> e-mail address that they used to contact him.
>
> They addressed him by name, and seemed to know that he belongs to a
> particular company.  ( Well, actually, they said: "share what your team
> is working on." )
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
Based upon the IP address, they could have done an nslookup for type MX
and seen if there was a mail handler associated with that domain and made
a lucky guess at a user name.

More likely, I suspect that the website had either some script
(javascript?) or flash that harvested information and did a "phone home".




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