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What public records can tell you

Guides on reverse lookups and the tools behind them, written to be useful to somebody who is not an investigator.

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Reverse email lookup: who is behind the address

One address in. The accounts registered to it, the breaches holding it, and the name attached to it where a name is public.

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The best OSINT tools in 2026

Ten tools that earn their place, what each is actually for, and the weakness every one of them has.

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Reverse phone lookup: who is on the other end

One number in. Whether the line is real, who carries it, what kind of line it is, and which public accounts are attached.

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Username search: the accounts behind a handle

People reuse handles for years without thinking about it. One handle checked against 71 platforms finds what that habit left.

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Finding someone by name

The narrowest search there is, and the one whose result depends most on who you are searching for.

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How to check a photo's metadata

A photo carries more than the picture. This is how to read the rest of the file.

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Check whether your password has already leaked

Whether a password is already in a public dump, checked without the password ever leaving your browser.

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How to find someone's social media accounts

The answer depends almost entirely on which identifier you already have, and hardly at all on how hard you look.

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Which social accounts use this email address

Every sign-up form has to tell you when an address is already taken. That obligation is the entire mechanism.

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What can someone find out about me online

The uncomfortable part is not what you published. It is the third of it that you never did.

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How to verify someone you met online

You are not looking for something incriminating. You are looking for ten boring years, and worrying when they are missing.

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Epieos alternatives, ranked

They all run the same trick underneath. What separates them is price, coverage, and whether they tell you what failed.

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What is OSINT, and why does it work

Everybody defines it by expanding the acronym. That tells you nothing about why it works, which is the only interesting part.

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Find an account by email or username

Nearly the same reach, and almost nothing in common in what comes back.

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How to find someone by email address, in five steps

The steps are ordered on purpose. Doing them out of order is how an afternoon disappears.

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How to find information on anyone

Collecting is the easy half. The hard half is noticing the moment you stopped looking at the same person.

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How to find someone online for free

Almost all of it is free. What you pay for is not access, it is an afternoon.

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Which platforms can actually be searched

Of the five platforms people ask about most, exactly one can be checked. Here is why, and what still works.

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Signs a partner might be cheating

Most of the signs on every other list describe a person whose life changed. That is not the same finding.

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OSINT techniques and methods

Three integrations on this site stopped working in one day. None of the techniques below noticed.

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How to find someone's Discord account

A Discord user ID is not a random number. It has the account's date of birth inside it.

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How to find someone on Steam

A Steam profile has a permanent number under it, and that number outlives every name the account ever uses.

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How to find someone's X (Twitter) account

X closed almost everything it used to give away for free. The profile itself is still there.

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How to find someone on Bluesky

Bluesky publishes the exact second an account was created. No other platform in this series is that open.

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How to find someone's Spotify account

Spotify tells you whether an address has an account. The playlists tell you the rest, and people forget they are public.

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How to find someone's Pinterest account

Pinterest boards are plans. People make them months before they tell anybody, and they make them in public.

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How to find someone's Duolingo account

Nobody thinks of a language app as a social network. It publishes a daily attendance record with a country attached.

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How to check a crypto wallet before you send

The chain will tell you almost everything about an address except the one thing you want, which is who holds it.

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Pig butchering scams: how to spot one early

The relationship comes first and costs them months. That patience is the whole design.

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Who owns this ENS domain?

An ENS name is the one place on a blockchain where somebody can attach their Twitter handle to their wallet, and thousands have.

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Finding the accounts somebody kept separate

You have an address or a number, and a suspicion that it belongs to more accounts than the one you were shown.

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The real name behind a username

You have a handle and you want a name. Everything below turns on whether the person ever wrote one down.

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Someone is using my username

Three different problems arrive at this search and they have three different answers. The first job is working out which one you have.

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The best people search sites, ranked

None of them would show us a price before a search, several are the same company under different names, and the regulator settlements are all public.

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Is it legal to look someone up?

The question has four parts and they have different answers, which is why a single sentence about public records never settles it.

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Has my email been leaked?

You can find out which published breaches hold your address in about a second. Almost everything people read into that answer is wrong.

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Is this website a scam?

You are about to enter a card number into a site you have never used. Here is what can be established in about two seconds, and what cannot be established at all.

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How to find someone's GitHub account

You hold an address and you want to know whose account it is. Nearly every guide on this teaches the opposite direction, and the opposite direction is the weaker one.

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Were my credentials in a stealer log?

This is the category people find after the password reset did not work. It is not a breach, and the usual advice is in the wrong order for it.

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Is this email address real?

Somebody has given you an address and you want to know whether there is anything behind it. The honest answer has more shape to it than a green tick.

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