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Covert online investigation on other people. Seriously, it's really not as
bad as it sounds and it is your right to know everything about the person
you met at an online dating site and are corresponding with. Since there are
dishonest people out there you might as well use all the free online
resources available at your disposal. You can use one or all of the below
ideas and web site links. All the links will open up a new window for you,
and are to sites that provide this information to you for free. If by chance
they start charging for the information, please let me know via my contact
page so I can remove them from below. Likewise if you have a web site that
provides free research, investigative, or database information and you'd
like it listed here then please send us a link to your site. Once we check
out what your site has to offer, it's confirmed as useful here and it's
free, we'll post your site.
First... we recommend you check out
People Ferret.
They have all the free tools you'll ever need to locate people, telephone
numbers, their real age, value of their house and a bunch more. Once you're
finished there you can then use any of my (ahem) sneaky tools below to find
out exactly who that really is behind that dating profile!
Googling People via the Google Search Engine.
Yes you heard right, and in case you've never heard about
"Googling" someone here's the inside scoop on what it's about. Google is the
most popular search engine online and has literally billions of pages of
online web pages and information stored on it's search engine hard drives.
To you this means there's a very good chance that the person you're
corresponding with has information about themselves listed out there
somewhere on the Internet whether they realize it or not. Their information
could be listed at an online club, blog, forum, guestbook, or really
anywhere. In order for this to work correctly for you takes a little bit of
search savvy plus some investigative skills on your part. In the long run
the time that you invest in "Googling" someone could prove to be well worth
your time as it could prove that the person you're writing to "is" really
who they say they are. And on the other hand it could also save you ton's of
time (and possible heart ache) if you find out that this person has been
lying to you or is not really who they say they are. OK here's what you'll
need, most of which you can expect to be able to gradually collect over a
period of time through their email correspondence or on their profile:
First Name and Last Name. This is the
minimum, however if his name is Bob Smith for instance, then there will be
too many search engine listings for the information to be of any value to
you. To further define the search engine results, you can add the additional
information below (from your emails, chat, their profile, phone conversations
etc.) in various combinations.
Other search items: City, address, age, profession, hobbies,
occupation, email signature line, email account host, things passionate
about, etc. Go ahead and try a search
now, even if using your own name (first and last) or the name of a friend,
family member or co-worker of yours. On the next page you can return back to
this page easily via the "back" button.
What you
might confirm from your Google research is that Bob Smith is in fact an
attorney, living in Dallas, he is 32, has made postings at the "save the
whales" web site (his email signature showed "save the whales" below his
name in his last email to you), and he has a profile listed at Yahoo (his
email account host) that mentions his love of basket weaving which he does
to relax after a hard day at the office - hmmmm you didn't know that about
him did you, but you do now. On the other hand you could find out absolutely
nothing about him (no information about him online, or not enough
information collected by you). On a bad note you could also find out that
through the information you've collected and the Googling you completed that
he's really 21, lives at home with Mom and Dad, uploads comedy videos all
day on the You Tube
Top Rated site (actually one of my favs, hence the link), and works at
McDonalds, part time! So don't expect
immediate Google miracles however, do understand that the more information
you have on your potential mate and the more time you spend Googling, the
better your outcome on your search results. |
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