![]() ![]() However, there is something impersonal and dissociative about numbers. Most people have several phone numbers memorized, maybe a bank account or two, or perhaps a combination lock at their local gym. In fact, in 2014, QQ was recognized by Guinness World Records for having the most simultaneous users on an instant messaging platform with more than 200 million simultaneous users and over 800 million Monthly Active Users (MAU).Īll of these QQ users have a qq.com email address, and all QQ accounts have a numeric email address. In China and parts of Asia, qq.com is like what, or are to the US in terms of providing email, messaging and communication services. QQ, which is owned by the Chinese tech giant Tencent, is a messaging application similar to Skype. You might be more familiar with the domain qq.com, particularly if you work in international business and/or marketing. They are real domains with valid Mail Exchange (MX) records that point to real mail servers for handling real email communication. For example, the domains noted above, 126.com, 139.com, and 163.com, are not fake. If you made your way to this blog article, then chances are you have encountered one or more numeric email addresses that turned out to be genuine when you may not have expected them to be. In China, all-numeric email addresses are very common. Now, what if we instead applied those numbers to the domain qq.com, to get this, Would you still think it was an ‘obviously fake email address’? Maybe not so ‘obviously fake email address’ Those are obviously fake email addresses. However, what if we instead used one of the following domains?Īnd created something like Now you might be thinking, “That’s even worse! Even the domains are all numbers now. If we were to use these numbers as an email address with a company domain like or even a free email provider like, to create something like Most likely, you would dismiss it as being garbage, fake or just simply bad. Obviously fake email addresses… right?įor example, let’s randomly type in some numbers. In this blog post, we will take a deeper dive into when to be cautious about email addresses from China. But in some countries, such as China, this isn’t necessarily the case. If you were to encounter an email address that was comprised of just numbers, what would be your first reaction? You might suspect that it was a fake or disposable email address. ![]()
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