Let's now take a look at find my past dotcom and Intelius dot com Web sites allow you to search the
internet and find public records and information.
What's the goal of this.
If you provide the first and last name of a person Intelius will run a check to find public information
on that person.
The search utilizes not only classic engines like Google or brain but also social media sites
as you can see.
There's a number of results for the submitted name Intelius.
Has the phone numbers and addresses for these people and knows where they lived before
full background reports on a selected person can be generated and purchased
for about $30.
You'll receive access to the person's date of birth address phone number related people list an address
history you'll know the results of the person's criminal check know if they had any financial problems.
And see the handles they used online and much more identity theft especially when it's carried out over
the internet.
Is child's play when you have a database like this at your disposal.
By using the personal details in the real world a criminal can get a bank loan or rent a car in that
person's name.
Find my past makes use of similar features.
The service was set up to help people find relatives that had lost touch with
in some countries documents such as birth and marriage records are digitalized and can be accessed online.
You can view askant birth certificate on the Internet.
The certificate contains a lot of interesting information.
If you have access to a records database and find a person who has died recently you can assume that
person's identity in different states or countries by using their personal details.
After submitting a registration form and paying a monthly fee fine my past will provide us with desired
information.
If you know the first and last name of a person you can access their full history and background
KGB people dot com and Spokeo that come along to another type of search engines that are based on social
media.
Let's see how they work.
Let's start with KGB people dot com to use the embedded social media search engine.
You need to know the first and last name of a person will type in John.
It's a very popular name but we don't want to find any specific information.
We just want to show you how the search engine works.
As you can see several profiles have been found there are profiles on Twitter Facebook MySpace blogger
and Digg among others.
All the show mechanisms have been used to find Internet traces of our John
also flicker and YouTube were checked John's personal information was found this information contains
facts and tags connected to a person who has this name.
It's enough now to pick one of the Johns and learn more about this person.