How Private Investigators Use the Internet to Locate People

With the advancement in the technology and the Internet, the world has become a global village, in this global village people are connected to each other to procure goods and services and to obtain information. As most of the transactions are made online these, it’s just a matter of few simple steps to locate a person for a private investigator like Danny Boice.  Here’s how the private investigators at Trustify do it;

Social Media

Social media site are some of the first places to start locating a person. It becomes easier if the private investigators are aware of the first and last name of the person of interest. As 79% of American Internet users are registered on Facebook, it is usually one of the first stops for a private investigator to start with. Facebook is a great starting point because it’s free and all information is publicly available.

There are many other social sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram etc. that can be searched to get more information about the person of interest. The search on social media can be narrowed by adding identifying details such as location or group, like the person’s graduating class. It will make it easier to locate the person.

What if a person is careful enough to lock down or hide their social media profiles? It is still possible to get information on them – legally – from their relatives, neighbors, or friends who may not have their security settings set as high. Private investigators are able to collect a list of names of people close to the person of interest and still be able to use the search function on that particular social network in order to get the information they’re searching for.

Search Engines

Whenever you sign up for membership at a website, post a comment at a forum, or perform an online transaction, you leave your identity online.  An experienced private investigator like Danny Boice only needs to properly utilize the search engines in order to find these little bits and piece them together for a more complete picture.

Though Google dominates the search engine field with the highest share of searches, private investigators go a step ahead and use a combination of all the search engines available in order to collate the maximum information. Searching on other search engines like Bing, Yahoo, AOL, and Duck Duck Go will provide different results for the same search parameters.

Data Fusion

Almost all the information we use on the web is included in a database, there are two basic types of database. One is easily accessible public records and other is less easily accessed non-public records. The quality of a good private investigator is that they have access to both types of database. Non-public records require payment for access, but it contains important information about a person’s identity, including their known addresses, landline, and cellular phone numbers, records from the DMV, details of home ownership, and even voting records. It costs as little as $10 to get a report done on someone with all the information included above.

Anyone who uses internet leaves their digital footprint online and it makes almost as easy to track as shadowing a person in real life. A resourceful private investigator like Danny Boice has all the tools available to make searching for someone online a relatively easy task. However, their knowledge of the law allows them to work within its boundaries without labeling them as stalkers that engage in illegal activities.

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