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The methods that I'm going to talk about in this section are similar to the methods that we have used

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to find someone email address, but the approach is a little bit different.

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Now, finding someone's phone number is more challenging and more difficult than finding someone's email

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address, because an email address is more frequently shared publicly for communication purposes, such

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as on websites, forums, social media profiles, and professional networks like LinkedIn.

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However, phone numbers are generally considered more private and are less commonly shared openly,

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and most people use their email address to register on a website instead of using their phone number.

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Now, having someone's email address makes it easier to find someone's phone number, because if you

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have someone's email address, then you can check in data leaks or find the accounts that this email

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is registered on, and then checking these accounts later to find or see whether they have their phone

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numbers shared publicly or not.

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But we will learn more about this in future lectures.

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So the first method that I would like to show you is to check whether the person has shared their phone

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number on their online, or on their social media accounts.

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Normally this does not happen, but this does not mean that you shouldn't check their accounts because

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even if you did not find the phone number, you will find some useful information that might help you

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to find someone's phone number.

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Now here are the online accounts that we have gathered so far.

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What I would like to do, just to make the page a little bit cleaner, is to cut all the accounts with

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Ctrl X and then go to usernames or the page that you have created previously and paste them in here.

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And now let me copy the usernames that we have extracted from a previous section and I'll put them in

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here.

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So you want to go through all of these accounts and check whether they have any additional information

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on their accounts?

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Because we have already seen that Rishi Kabra has linked his YouTube channel to his Twitch account,

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and his email address was displayed on his YouTube channel.

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The second method that I would like to show you is using search engine operators to check whether a

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person has a phone number that's indexed by search engines.

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We have already used this method before to find someone's email address, but this time we're going

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to use a slightly different search operator, which is this one.

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So first of all, we are going to search for the first and last name of the person within two quotation

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marks.

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And then we can specify the city.

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Now this is not required.

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This is only optional.

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So if you have specified the city and you have got no search results, then you can remove the city

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and then just search for the phone number.

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So you want to specify the city and then say phone number within two quotation marks or number, or

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the country code.

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So it might be nine one for India, four nine for Germany, plus one for United States, etc..

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And we will see an example.

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So let's go to google.com and then search for Rishi Kabra within two quotation marks.

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And then if the name is very popular then you can specify the city.

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In my case I'm going to say Kolkata.

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And then I'm going to say number or for number within two quotation marks.

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So we are going to search for the search term Rishi Kabra Kolkata number or phone number or the country

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code.

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So I'm going to say plus nine one because he is living in India, or nine one without the plus or double

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zero and then nine one.

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So you want to search for the first and last name, specify the city.

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As I said before, this is not required.

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If you have got no search results then you can remove this.

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And then you want to search for the search term number phone number plus nine one or the country code

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or the country code without a plus and the country code with double zeros.

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So I'm going to hit enter.

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And as you can see here we have got a search result.

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I'm going to scroll down to see how long this is.

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And you can see that there aren't many search results.

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So these are all of the search results I'm going to scroll up.

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And the most relevant search result to us is this one which is from Signal Higher.

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The extension that we have used to find Rishi Kabra email address.

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And it also had Rishi Kabra phone number.

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So I'm going to open this URL.

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And then you need to sign up with your Google account or create a normal account.

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And now let me come back and open the search result again.

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And as you can see here we can find Rishi Kapoor information.

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So we can see his name.

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We can see his experience is for numbers and his email addresses, which is something that we've already

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found in a previous section.

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Now, the reason why we have got this search result is because we have searched for nine one, which

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is the country code, which is also in this page, and his name was also in this page and the words

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for number and Kolkata.

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And that's why this page appeared at the beginning of the search results.

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We can also see another PDF file with the name Rishi Kabra and the search term number, but this does

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not contain his phone number.

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We can scroll down more here.

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We can see a search result with the name Rishi Kabra Kolkata and number.

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And you can see that this is a license number and not a phone number.

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And this is why I'm not going to open it.

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And here we can see a review that is made by Rishi Kabra.

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So let me open it and we can see that we don't have access because I am not in India.

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But I can always use a VPN.

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Let me see if there is a cached version of this page.

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So there isn't a cached version.

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But this is not a problem because we have learned how we can copy the page and put it in Bing or Yandex

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and find if this page is cached or not.

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Now let's come back.

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I have already opened this search result before and it had a review made by Rishi Kabra.

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We don't know which Rishi Kabra this is, but he called this phone number and he wasn't able to get

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a response.

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And we can see a snippet from his review.

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So we can scroll down more and try to open all of these links.

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I have already checked all of these links, and we're only able to find the phone number in the first

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page, which is by signal higher.

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So in this lecture you have learned how can you use a custom search operator to find whether someone's

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phone number is indexed on search engines or not?

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Now, obviously if the person is not active online, they don't post or they didn't use their phone

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number at all, then you will not be able to find their phone number.

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But I will cover more techniques to find a person's phone number.