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The first thing that you want to do after you gather some initial information about your target is to

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collect all usernames that they used on social media accounts and save them in your notes or in a txt

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file.

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Because in next lectures I'm going to show you how can you use these usernames to find more accounts

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that the target has?

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Here are Rishi Kabra online accounts.

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And we can see that we have gathered his Twitter account, his LinkedIn account and many other accounts.

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So what I'm going to do is to copy all the unique usernames and save them in my notes.

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For example, here we have this username Rishi Kabra.

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I'm going to put it in here.

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We also have underscore RK 132.

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I'm going to copy it put it in here.

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We also have this one.

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And this one.

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And these are the usernames that he used on his social media accounts or any other account.

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So here we can see the same username, so I'm not going to copy it.

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We also have Rishi Raj Cobra.

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And that's it.

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So these are Rishi Cobra usernames as you can see here.

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I can just type usernames.

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And I'm going to show you how can we take advantage of these usernames to find more accounts that Rishi

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Cobra has.

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The first method that I would like to show you to find Rishi Cobra or any other person's online accounts

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is by using search engine operators.

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So we are going to use the internal search operator to check if a certain username is indexed by search

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engines, and the search operator is going to be as follows.

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We're going to say in URL and then the first username that we have gathered for example Rishi Kapoor

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132 Two.

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And then I'm going to say or in URL and then the second username and so on.

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So this will check whether a certain username is found on search engines.

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Because we might be able to find another account that uses the exact same username that we weren't able

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to find before.

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So we have gathered all the usernames we can see Rishi minus cobra underscore, RK 132, Rishi, cobra

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132, etc..

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So the first thing that I'm going to do is just to go to Google and then I'm going to say in URL and

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then the first username which was Rishi minus Cobra.

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And then I'm going to say or in URL and then add the second username which is Rishi cobra 132 and then

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r, and then the third username and or in URL.

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Let me check again.

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We have Rishiraj Raj.

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Cobra.

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So as you can see, we have used the internal search operator and then the first, username, second,

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third, fourth and fifth username.

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So you want to add all the usernames that you have found about a person in Google and then search for

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them.

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So let me give it a try and say enter so we can see that this is the first account which is Rishi Kabra

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Twitter account.

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We already have this.

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We also have his LinkedIn account, his Facebook account, his GitHub account, his Instagram account,

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SoundCloud.

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And here we have another LinkedIn account, which I believe is not for him.

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So what you are going to do is just to check whether you were able to find any additional social media

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account or any online account that belongs to the person that you are looking for.

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So I'm going to scroll down to see whether we can find something.

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So here we have a Quora account.

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Let me open it.

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and see whether this is his account.

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And as you can see, this is his account.

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And he uses the username Rishi minus cobra minus two.

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And we weren't able to find this account before.

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We can also see some of the questions that he asked on how to learn Linux, or how he can start learning

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Java, etc..

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So this will give us an idea of his interest.

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I can copy his profile URL and then add it to my notes.

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Now let me come back.

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I can scroll down and see that we have a Tableau account.

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So we can see that this is his account as well.

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I can come back again and see if there are any additional accounts.

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We can see his Twitch account, which we already have.

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And this is another account that does not belong to Rishi Cobra.

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Because here we can see another profile picture and you will see that there are some search results

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that are not related to Rishi Cobra that has the name RK 132.

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8132.

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So if I open this URL, which I believe if is a product or something, but this is not related to Rishi

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Cobra.

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Now of course I can exclude it from my search because this will make my search easier.

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So I'm going to exclude it like this.

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And then I'm going to say enter again.

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And now we should get less search results.

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As you can see.

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So here we can see another person with the name Rishi Cobra which is not the one that we are looking

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for because this one lives in the United States.

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We already have his default blog account, and we can also see a search result with his email and phone

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number.

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I'm not going to get into this because I would like to cover it in a future lecture.

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So in this lecture, you have learned how you can utilize search engine operators to check if a certain

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username is indexed by search engines, because this might reveal some additional accounts that you

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were not able to find before, just like the Quora account that we found earlier.