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Level 5
Mar 20, 2018 11:59 AM UTC
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Are 126.com and 163.com fake email addresses?

I'm doing some research on the email addresses that were sent but not deliverer.  I noticed a number of email addresses for our members with the domain 162.com and 163.com.  From what I've been able to tell via limited research, these domains could potentially be fake. Because these email addresses are linked to our members, I would think they would be legitimate. Do you have any information about these domains that you can share?  Thank you.

Jamie_BarclayAccepted solution
Level 5
Mar 20, 2018 1:10 PM UTC

Thank you

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Ed_King
Level 2
Mar 20, 2018 4:15 PM UTC

They are free email ISP from China. At the Marketing Open Data Project there is a pretty comprehensive list of the free and disposable email provider domains from around the world, about 8,200+ domain:

Marketing Open Data Project - Marketing Open Data Project

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Grégoire_Miche2
Level 10
Mar 20, 2018 4:18 PM UTC

Hi Ed,

Do not bother, "Thanks you" is the correct answer

-Greg

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Grégoire_Miche2
Level 10
Mar 20, 2018 12:42 PM UTC

126网易免费邮--你的专业电子邮局

163网易免费邮--中文邮箱第一品牌

They are free ESP's, from netease NetEase - Wikipedia in China.

-Greg

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Jamie_BarclayAuthorAccepted solution
Level 5
Mar 20, 2018 1:10 PM UTC

Thank you

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Dan_Stevens_
Level 10
Mar 20, 2018 1:52 PM UTC

Probably should mark Greg’s answer as the “correct” one.

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