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The video above gives a quick look at three free options — SpyTox, ThatsThem, and SpyDialer — showing the kind of results each one returns. Here's a sample of what ThatsThem results can look like: 2025 update: A few more options have emerged since this was first posted, and the Google removal tool mentioned in the 2022 update has expanded significantly. More on both below. For a broader look at public records resources beyond email lookups, there's a dedicated post on that here . Free Ways to Look Up an Email Address Owner The approach shown in the video (searching ThatsThem by email) still works. ThatsThem searches public records and can return a name, location, and phone number associated with an email address at no cost and with no account required. Results are better for addresses that have been used publicly in some way, thinner for purely private addresses. A few other options worth knowing about: SpyTox — one of the three shown in the video. It sear...

In this section we'll be exploring sites to look up credit reports and scores. Free sites are ideal for most people if they're looking up their own so we'll cover most of that before anything else. Keep in mind that you can't legally look up someone else's credit report, or credit score without proper authorization. How about a site that lets you check your credit score for free without even needing a credit card? There is a fair enough chance that you already know of it before landing on a blog like this. It's a site which lets you do all that, and can also help protect you from identity theft. Scroll down to Getting Your Free Credit Report to immediately find out more about this site. Now, here are a few facts to know about id theft. A large percentage of id theft is through someone you know, and children are especially vulnerable to it. Hopefully you already know that you should destroy any personal information about yourself before discarding it. Even...

Popular public records resources and related items of interest. Have you been Googling people's names to get some background info on them? The results probably weren't very promising. Search engines are great for a lot of things, but pulling together a coherent picture of a specific person from scattered public records isn't really one of them. That's what the sites below are better at. A few things worth keeping in mind before diving in. You can't legally look up someone else's credit report or credit score without their authorization. And personal background check services like the ones linked elsewhere on this blog are not permitted for professional use — hiring, tenant screening, and similar purposes require FCRA-compliant services. For personal research, though, there's quite a bit available, and more of it is free than it used to be. 2025 update: Many dead or otherwise outdated links that used to appear throughout this post have been remove...

The short answer: yes, it does. Inteligator Free Trial Click here August, 2021 I'm not sure how relevant this service is or was to begin with. I think it's a pretty random online background check service for casual use. They were obviously never as big as a site like Been Verified. After I search Reddit to check for mentions of this service, there didn't seem to be any results. When I searched Twitter to also see what people were saying, all tweets about it were ads, and the most recent one dates all the way back to 2018. The service might still work as well as it did when I reviewed it all the way back in 2012. A website called SiteJabber had mostly unfavorable reviews of Inteligator. Before I finish this post, I'd like to point out that I noticed a site called Intelligator.org which is just an extra 'L' in the name. This does sound like something you could get sued for if you're offering the same kind of service, but maybe they found a workaround, ...

If you're interested in checking someone's background for criminal records for free online, you're not going to find a professional one. What you'll find is companies who let members search their databases, which use information that's publicly available (yet scattered all over the place.) Their goal is to be as accurate as possible about people's details which include, but aren't limited to a person's former and current address, criminal history and court records (may include records of divorce and marriage, judgments, etc). In this post, I'll show a review of Been Verified which does offer a free trial. Your info and searches are kept safe, people you search for won't know what you were up to, according to the company (and most if not 100% of their competitors, as far as I'm aware). As I'm updating the text of this post in the late summer of 2021, I can't remember the last time I've seen an advertisement from this company. ...

Before I answer this question, I need to know something else from you. Does a free trial qualify as "free"? With that, you would have to have your credit card number ready so that you can't re-use the trial over and over again. Cell phone numbers are currently not published in the USA, so data brokers have found a way to make money. They pull information from as many free sources as possible and put it into their own database, which is searchable by members only. It costs money to have such a site running, so it wouldn't make much sense for this kind of a website to be free. Watch this video to have an idea of what the results are for a reverse phone lookup. You could speed up the playback of the video too, since it's pretty mildly helpful and not very interesting, if you even bother to watch it. Update (2025): The link that used to sit below that video is long gone, and the service it pointed to has been difficult to track down in any current form. ...