In this video, we're talking about checking your online date using Osint for verification purposes.
Now, when you're dating online, you never know what you're getting, to be honest.
It could be a person that you're actually looking for.
That's actually presenting themselves properly.
Or it could be someone that's lying.
It could be someone being malicious or even dangerous in some cases.
That's where online actually comes in handy to verify certain things about people.
In order to protect yourself.
So there's a lot of different online dating apps out there eHarmony, Match, Tinder, OkCupid, Bumble.
There's a staggering number, and all of them have some sort of or some level of protection in there.
However, it is still easy to get in there and to lie.
A matter of fact, I have a sock puppet in different online dating sites and.
Even if they have verifications like photos, and that I'm able to use sock puppets and AI generated
images to create a fake profile well enough to get past these different things.
So it's not that hard to get around certain verifications for these online dating sites.
So you do need to be careful.
Now say, for example, this woman is trying thinks that they're going to be dating or talking with
a nice young man, and it turns out to be a very horrible person that's looking to do some harm, whether
it's physical or financial or just messing with the person.
That's where ozone comes in handy.
Now, we could take a look at different things on a profile.
Now, profiles are generally pretty standard across whichever service you're using, you're generally
going to get a username, some sort of story or little blurb that they that they have some tagline,
whatever.
And we could actually take this and use O's and to kind of figure out if they're legitimate or not.
And we we kind of use the same steps we use for things like social media and what whatnot.
So the first thing we take a look at is the name.
We can see the name here on this one is Silly Billy.
And 33 is their age, or at least what they put down.
We see the image of them and we can see what story they wrote or what what information they put down.
Now, first of all, with the with the name, we can go to sites like instant username search.
We can punch in that name, Silly Billy, and see where else that's potentially being used.
From there, we can take that name and check those sites and kind of see if that information meshes.
If what he's seen in his profile is actually matching what he says elsewhere.
Other great sites are social catfish.
We put that name into social catfish and we can get additional information.
In this case, we found five records for silly Billy.
Now it looks like that name is most likely Billy Hazelwood from Easley, South Carolina, or Greenville,
South Carolina area.
Now, you could first take that name in that location and match it up with what they're saying in their
profile.
Are they actually seeing they're from South Carolina or are they saying they're from somewhere else?
Well, if you're saying they're from somewhere else.
Maybe they're lying.
Maybe they moved.
But that is something to look for.
We could see male gender spoke only English.
We could see a partial phone number.
We can see partial IDs.
We can see that they have a LinkedIn account or a couple of LinkedIn accounts potentially, and we can
kind of track it down through their.
For the image.
We could use things like Google Images, Pimeyes, Yandex and Bing image rater, all sorts of different
reverse insurgency.
Where else that image was used?
And in here we're using Google and we could find that image was used elsewhere and we can kind of track
down those links and see if that person image is legitimate.
Do they do they grab it from something else?
Is it being used somewhere else and presented differently?
But reverse image searching is a very handy option for this.
In this case we're using PMI's we and we put silly Billy's photo in there and we could see it came up
with a with some matches with 86% of.
Accuracy here, or at least it considers 86%.
And it looks it looks like it is the same person.
So for Pimeyes, you would have to pay.
Pay to you actually unlock these things here, Or what you could do is we can simply take these images,
snip it out, copy it, whatever, and re fit it into, say, Google or Yandex or Bing or these other
image searches and see if we can find where else those photos were being used.
Now the information that they put down, We want to take a look at certain things, break down the posts
for useful information as opposed to generic.
Well, if it is, it might be a bot.
Is there unusual grammar or spelling mistakes?
Well, that's not necessarily a sign of deceit, but it you do want to make a note of that does the
information.
Differ from the other profiles that you found on different sites, like if they have Instagram or Snapchat
account, does an information match up?
Well, if it doesn't, then you you might want to be a little bit on your guard.
We also could take that information that they put in.
If they have some sort of story or blurb or something.
You can put in things like plagiarism checker, like a plagiarism detector and see if that was used
anywhere else.
If it was.
Of course, we go back to that site and we take a look at that information.
And in this case, we could see that if this was I'm using a mark Twain quote, quote, We can see it
was plagiarized and it gives us a link where where that was potentially used.
We can go to that site again.
We could check and verify the information.
Other things we could do is if we have a name, a phone number, email address and whatnot.
Of course, we could put into different people search engines, things like spy dialer, People tell
us Spokeo, all sorts of different search engines and do our research that way also.
In.
Generally we'll get even if we don't pay for it, it'll give us a location, it'll give us age, possible
known relatives and whatnot.
And we also could do things like a Google advanced search insert entering different keywords and different
information to find out in different different stuff about them.
So we have a lot of different different options when we're doing online dating.
Olson So it's always great to be careful out there.
If you are going online dating, of course we could use those and you should use those and to verify
and protect yourself.
And if we're verifying information for a client, for example, and we have to take the online dating
route, these are some tips to help you with that investigation.
Thank you for watching.
I'll see you next video.