people-search-engines

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Use people-search aggregators and public records to find a person's contact and background data. Use when looking up someone in people-search sites, finding addresses/relatives/phone from public records, or aggregating identity data across data brokers.

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People Search Engines

Data brokers aggregate public records, marketing data, and scraped profiles into searchable people profiles. Fast leads, but noisy and error-prone.

Sources

Aggregators — Spokeo, BeenVerified, Whitepages, TruePeopleSearch, FastPeopleSearch, Pipl (business/investigator tier), That'sThem. Coverage is strongest in the US.
Public records — voter files (where lawful), county court and property records, business filings (→
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corporate-registries
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), obituaries, and alumni directories.
Region-specific — most countries have their own registries and phone directories; the US-centric brokers won't cover them.

Method

Start from the richest selector (full name + city, or a phone/email the brokers reverse-lookup).
Cross-read several brokers — each buys different data; the overlap is your most reliable signal.
Use relatives/associates listings to disambiguate namesakes and map a family/network graph.
Pivot found emails/phones/handles into
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email-osint
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,
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phone-osint
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,
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username-osint
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.

Cautions

Broker data is frequently stale or wrong (old addresses, merged people). Treat every field as unverified until corroborated.
These sites are the raw material of doxxing — see ../../ETHICS.md. Use only for a lawful objective, and note that many jurisdictions (and the brokers' own opt-outs) restrict use of this data.