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Email Checker - Make sure that email is real

How email checker is helpful for webmasters, website owners, email marketing services

Emails still stay the most reliable and most popular way to contact your clients. Emails are being used everywhere — sign ups and registrations, comments, website news subscriptions and so on. But besides the usual visitors, emails could be used by spammers, they use both real emails addresses and fake ones. This fact brings certain risks to any online business.
While planning an email marketing campaign, you have to be sure that your list of email addresses is correct.

  1. Real emails weren't used by spammers. If it's the case then the email owner can report your mailing list.
  2. Real email belongs to a spammer — you wasted your money, your letter won't be read.
  3. Non-existent email — you have risks to be blacklisted.

All this could lead to problems: Block Lists, low rate of delivery, your letters could go directly to "Spam" folders.

According to the CleanTalk statistics, about 30% of email addresses that were used to spam websites are fake.

Non-existing email addresses also entail several other problems for website owners:

  • You can never contact them by email,
  • The client will never receive any notifications from you (account activation letter, password recovery, email distribution, notifications, etc.),
  • If you use email marketing for your clients, then a large number of nonexistent emails in the mailing list may result in your IP address being added to various Block Lists of email servers.

CleanTalk email checker actually connects to the mail server and checks whether an email exists or not. Don't risk your reputation.

Each CleanTalk Anti-Spam Plugin supports Email Existence Verification in real-time.

Anti-Spam Plugins by CleanTalk

I have a question

What is the difference between Spam and Scam?

Spam refers to unwanted or unsolicited messages, usually sent in bulk for advertising or promotion and not always malicious. Scam is a deliberate attempt to deceive people in order to steal money, personal data, or access to accounts. While scams are often delivered via spam messages, not all spam is a scam.

This app provides reliable data about spam activity across multiple websites based on an email address. At the same time, an email address may be used for scams, but we cannot guarantee or prove scam involvement.

Can I report abuse activity related to an email address?

Yes, you can. Use this page to submit a report: https://cleantalk.org/blacklists/report-ip.

Why would someone use a fake email address?

Someone may use a fake email address for several reasons. It can be done to avoid spam, protect privacy, or sign up for a service without sharing a real address. In other cases, fake email addresses are used for spam, scams, fraud, or to hide the sender’s identity, which is considered abusive or malicious behavior.

What is the difference between fraud and phishing for email?

Phishing is a form of email fraud, but not all email fraud is phishing.

Phishing is a specific type of fraud where emails impersonate a trusted organization or person to trick recipients into revealing passwords, payment details, or other sensitive information, often by clicking a fake link.

Fraud is a broader term that includes phishing as well as other email-based schemes, such as fake invoices, payment redirection, or impersonation emails that aim to steal money or data.

Why do people spam websites?

People spam websites mainly to promote products or links, manipulate SEO rankings, or drive traffic to other sites. In many cases, spam is also used for scams, phishing, malware distribution, or testing stolen data. Because it can be automated at scale, website spam is cheap and profitable for attackers.