False professional email addresses

An opportunity for scammers

An address in the form bank@financial.com or johndoe@consulting.com is not necessarily a business address.
Indeed, some sites offer free use of domain names for a free email address.

These services are commonly used by fraudsters to set up scams currently circulating on the websites displaying ads or by mail (SCAMS).

Avoiding the trap

The best way to tell if an email is really professional, is to search the directory to check on the actual existence of this company and to contact by mail or telephone to ensure that emails and phone numbers phone match those provided by your contact.

Here is a non exhaustive list domain names used frequently by scammers

• A : accountant.com, activist.com, adexec.com, africamail.com, afrikamail.com, alabama.usa.com, alaska.usa.com, allergist.com, alumni.com, alumnidirector.com, alumnidirector.com, americamail.com, amorous.com, angelic.com, archaeologist.com, arcticmail.com, arizona.usa.com, arkansas.usa.com, aroma.com, artlover.com, asia.com, asia-mail.com, atheist.com, australiamail.com, australiamail.com
• B : bartender.net, been-there.com, berlin.com, berlin.com, bigger.com, bikerider.com, birdlover.com, brazilmail.com, brazilmail.com, brew-master.com
• C : california.usa.com, californiamail.com, caress.com, catlover.com, cheerful.com, cheerful.com, chef.net, chemist.com, chinamail.com, chinamail.com, clerk.com, cliffhanger.com, collector.org, colorado.usa.com, columnist.com, comfortable.com, comic.com, comic.com, connecticut.usa.com, consultant.com, consultant.com, contractor.net, counsellor.com, count.com, count.com, couple.com, cutey.com, cyberdude.com, cybergal.com, cyber-wizard.com
• D : dallasmail.com, dallasmail.com, delaware.usa.com, delhimail.com, delhimail.com, deliveryman.com, diplomats.com, disciples.com, disposable.com, doctor.com, doglover.com, doubt.com, dr.com, dublin.com, dublin.com, dutchmail.com
• E : earthling.net, earthling.net, elvisfan.com, email.com, email.com, email.com, engineer.com, englandmail.com, europe.com, europe.com, europemail.com, execs.com
• F : fan.com, fan.net, feelings.com, feelings.com, financier.com, fireman.net, florida.usa.com, footballer.com
• G : gardener.com, gardener.com, geologist.com, georgia.usa.com, germanymail.com, germanymail.com, graduate.org, graphic-designer.com
• H : hairdresser.net, hawaii.usa.com, hilarious.com, hockeymail.com, homosexual.net, hot-shot.com, hour.com, howling.com, humanoid.net, humanoid.net
• I : idaho.usa.com, illinois.usa.com, iname.com, iname.com, indiamail.com, indiamail.com, indiana.usa.com, innocent.com, inorbit.com, instruction.com, instructor.net, insurer.com, iowa.usa.com, irelandmail.com, irelandmail.com, israelmail.com, israelmail.com, italymail.com, italymail.com
• J, K, L : japan.com, japan.com, journalist.com, kansas.usa.com, kentucky.usa.com, koreamail.com, koreamail.com, lawyer.com, legislator.com, lobbyist.com, london.com, london.com, louisiana.usa.com, loveable.com
• M : mad.scientist.com, madonnafan.com, madrid.com, madrid.com, mail.com, mail.com, mail.com, mail.org, maine.usa.com, maryland.usa.com, massachusetts.usa.com, mexicomail.com, mexicomail.com, michigan.usa.com, mindless.com, mindless.com, minister.com, minister.com, minnesota.usa.com, mississippi.usa.com, missouri.usa.com, mobsters.com, monarchy.com, monarchy.com, montana.usa.com, moscowmail.com, moscowmail.com, munich.com, munich.com, musician.org, muslim.com, myself.com, myself.com
• N : nastything.com, nebraska.usa.com, nevada.usa.com, newhampshire.usa.com, newjersey.usa.com, newmexico.usa.com, newyork.usa.com, nightly.com, nonpartisan.com, northcarolina.usa.com, northdakota.usa.com, null.net, nycmail.com, nycmail.com
• O : oath.com, ohio.usa.com, oklahoma.usa.com, optician.com, oregon.usa.com, orthodontist.net, orthodox.com
• P : pacific-ocean.com, pacificwest.com, paris.com, paris.com, pediatrician.com, pennsylvania.usa.com, petlover.com, photographer.net, physicist.net, playful.com, poetic.com, polandmail.com, polandmail.com, politician.com, popstar.com, popstar.com, post.com, post.com, presidency.com, priest.com, priest.com, programmer.net, protestant.com, publicist.com
• R : radiologist.net, realtyagent.com, reborn.com, reborn.com, reggaefan.com, registerednurses.com, religious.com, repairman.com, representative.com, rescueteam.com, revenue.com, rhodeisland.usa.com, rocketship.com, rocketship.com, rockfan.com, rome.com, rome.com, royal.net, russiamail.com, russiamail.com
• S : safrica.com, saintly.com, saintly.com, salesperson.net, samerica.com, sanfranmail.com, sanfranmail.com, scientist.com, scotlandmail.com, scotlandmail.com, secretary.net, seductive.com, singapore.com, singapore.com, singapore.com, sister.com, sizzling.com, snakebite.com, socialworker.net, sociologist.com, songwriter.net, soon.com, southcarolina.usa.com, southdakota.usa.com, spainmail.com, spainmail.com, surgical.net, swedenmail.com, swedenmail.com, swissmail.com
• T : teachers.org, techie.com, techie.com, technologist.com, tempting.com, tennessee.usa.com, texas.usa.com, thegame.com, theplate.com, therapist.net, toke.com, tokyo.com, tokyo.com, toothfairy.com, torontomail.com, torontomail.com, tough.com, tvstar.com, tvstar.com
• U, V : umpire.com, usa.com, usa.com, usa.com, usa.com, utah.usa.com, vermont.usa.com, virginia.usa.com
• W, X, Y, Z : wallet.com, washington.usa.com, webname.com, weirdness.com, weirdness.com, westvirginia.usa.com, who.net, whoever.com, winning.com, wisconsin.usa.com, witty.com, worker.com, writeme.com, writeme.com, wyoming.usa.com, yours.com