Why this exists
A brand-new email address is one of the most reliable warning signs in online fraud — scammers burn through fresh addresses because the old ones get reported and blocked. But there was no simple, honest way for a normal person to ask "how far back does this address actually go?" without signing up to an enterprise fraud platform. This tool is that check: paste an address, get an answer in seconds, free.
How it works
No email provider publishes when an inbox was created, so the tool estimates from signals that exist publicly: the earliest date an address appears in known breach corpora (via Have I Been Pwned), the domain's registration record, its mail configuration (MX, SPF, DMARC), disposable-domain lists, and public profile data. Every figure is a floor — the address is at least that old — and the tool says so plainly rather than implying false precision.
Who's behind it
Check Email Age is built and run by George Skentzos as a personal project exploring what's possible building real software with AI — not a company or a data broker. The $5 report keeps the lights on and the data sources paid for. If it was useful, think of it as buying me a coffee. Say hi on LinkedIn.
Data sources and credit
Exposure data comes from Have I Been Pwned, used under its Creative Commons Attribution licence (no affiliation or endorsement). Domain data comes from public DNS and registry (RDAP) records. Provider trademarks shown on the site belong to their owners and indicate which services can be checked, nothing more.
The honest limits
This is an estimation tool, not an oracle. An empty history doesn't prove an address is fraudulent, and a long history doesn't prove a sender is safe — the report gives you the signals and the reasoning so you can make your own call. For decisions regulated by law (credit, housing, employment), use a proper consumer-reporting service; this isn't one.