Username, E-mail Search and Investigation

Beginners Guide to perform Username, E-mail Search and Investigation

In this article we’ll discuss how to perform Username, E-mail Search and Investigation.

You can check specific usernames to see where they are being used (e.g., social media sites) or to know whether a particular username really exists.

1. Check User Name : Check the use of a specific username on 160 social networks. This is useful to discover target social media accounts to see if they are using the same username on multiple platforms.


2. Namechk : Check to see whether a specified username is used for major domain names and social media sites.


3. Namecheckr : Check a domain and social username availability across multiple networks.


4. User Search : Scan 45 popular social media websites.

Free services can help you to locate people according to their associated e-mail address. E-mail validation services check whether an e-mail address exists and gives other detailed technical information about it.

1. E-mail Dossier : This site gives detailed technical validation reports about e-mails.


2. Emailhippo : Free Email address verification service.


3. Hunter : This website offers free Email address verification service/100 email per month.


4. E-mail Checker : You can use this site to verify whether an e-mail address is real.


5. Mail Tester : This site offers e-mail address verification.


6. Byte Plant E-mail Validator : You can validate e-mail addresses in bulk.


7. E-mail Format : Find the e-mail address formats in use at thousands of companies.


8. E-mail Permutator+ : This is a free e-mail permutator service.


9. com: Provide e-mail address patterns for more than 1,000 companies.


10. Scam Dex : This is a huge archive of scam e-mails.


11. E-mail Header Analysis : Get detailed technical information extracted from e-mail headers. This includes the sender IP address, e-mail, and sender ISP in addition to geographical information. To use this service, you need to copy the e-mail header and paste it into the E-mail Header Analysis engine and click “Submit header for analysis.” See the following note to learn how to extract the Gmail message header.

Follow these steps to extract e-mail headers from Gmail:

1. Open the target e-mail.


2. Click the down arrow located next to the Reply button and select “Show original”

Data Compromised Repository Websites

These sites hold a list of websites that have suffered from a data breach in the past. When a site suffers from a data breach, registered user details especially usernames and passwords usually get revealed to the public. Many people have a bad practice of using the same password for more than one account (e.g., using the same password for Facebook and for an e-mail account), so knowing one password may grant access to other social accounts/services belonging to the same user.

The following sites are popular websites that list information from a data breach; you can use them to gain intelligence about any target online:

Have I been Pwned : This site lists half a billion real-world passwords previously exposed in data breaches. You can also download the Pwned Passwords list, which contains additional data about each breached account (such as the number of times that password had been seen in the source data breaches). This site can be searched using a target e-mail address or the password itself to see whether it appears in plain text on any public password dump list. This is a recommended site.

Breach Alarm : Enter your e-mail address to see whether your associated online account passwords have been exposed in a previous data breach. Results will get sent to the specified e-mail address.

Global Cyber Vandalism Statistics : This site holds information about the most active website hackers, most active hacker groups, recently hacked government and academic websites, recently reported hacked websites, and reported defacements on hold (not verified).

Hacked E-mails : Check anonymously whether your e-mail has been compromised in a previous data breach.

 

 

Phone Number Search

A reverse phone lookup service is useful to find out who is behind a specific phone number. Some services also specify the carrier name and type in addition to phone number type. The following are some phone lookup services:

Z lookup : This is a site that does international reverse phone lookups including cell phones.

Reverse Phone Lookup : This site traces a telephone back to its owner for free.

Inter800 : Search for phone numbers within the United States.

Twilio : Identify phone number formats, find caller names, find caller types (business or personal), identify phone number carrier, and check phone number type (landline, VoIP, or mobile).

Spy Dialer : This is a reverse phone lookup for cell phones and landlines.

Who calld : This is a reverse phone lookup service for international numbers.

Info Bel : Search for the phone number of a person or company anywhere in the world.

Fone Finder : Search for U.S./Canadian telephone numbers.

True Caller : This is an international reverse phone number lookup.

Free Carrier Lookup : This is a carrier lookup service.

Phone Lookup : This is a reverse phone number lookup service.

You cannot get reverse phone lookup for mobile phones easily for free; however, there are many paid websites that offer such services.

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