How do they do it?

[Edelweiss]

I received an unsolicited email from a company, which had an email link in it to allow you to get more info. When I clicked on the link it took me to a page where all my details were already correctly filled in (job title, email, phone, address) and I just needed to check the details and then click next.

I am assuming that the link in the email must have a bit of code in it that uniquely identifies me. Is that how it works? How much work does it take to set this up?

Thanks

 

[ingroupmedia]

All your details will be stored in a database, the link in the email will have an id number contained within the link that will say to that page which record to pull up.

 

[michael_zhang]

All your details will be stored in a database, the link in the email will have an id number contained within the link that will say to that page which record to pull up.

Agree, maybe it has an unique code. For example, when you registered this forum, you were going to get an email with an URL to confirm.

 

[webber88]

Me too got an experience like this i think its all client scripting.
there are 2 types of scripting server side and client side ......
Client side scripting is simple and we can also make use of it easily.
It not some think related to hacking or something else, its purely programming.

 

[Edelweiss]

Thanks guys. Not sure I understand how it would be done with client side scripting, though. The code would have to tie back to the database, so how would that work?

 

[webber88]

No there is no need for database connectivity here.
Taking the data from database is very tough when compared to retrieving data from virtual memory.
I have actually done this type with java script.
So you can also try it by learning java script.
TRY IT
ALL THE BEST.

 

[Edelweiss]

Sorry, not understanding how you can link to a customer's full address details without linking to the place that information is kept. Do you mean that the full address is linked inside the code?

 

[Stray__Cat]

But where the client side script could pull the data from? It should be data provided to someone and sold to a spammer, and code in the link. How did the link looked like?

 

[Edelweiss]

this is what the link looks like:

[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']https://webinars.cvent.com/EVENTS/R....aspx?rc=bb7fbe65-7780-45f2-b9f3-164d2bb7428e[/FONT]