Guides

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.

Username search: the accounts behind a handle

One handle checked against 217 platforms shows where that name is taken, where it is free, and which profiles are worth opening.

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

The profile still returns the account ID and the creation date. The follow list is the part X took away.

A board name is a plan made in public. The pins under it show where each picture came from.

A handle holds no name. Three places where people signed their own do.

Facebook stopped answering the email question in April 2018, and most tools still selling it are selling a copy of an old list.

YouTube prints more about a channel than any other creator platform prints about a profile, and almost none of it is where people look.

The number is the account, so one link settles whether it exists — and four privacy settings decide everything you see after that.

Create an account and the first report is a couple of minutes away. Nobody you look up is told.

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