From time to time, many of us have to look for information about our friends, acquaintances, classmates. Sometimes you need to get additional information about a potential business partner or job candidate. What are the ways to get information about a person?
Instructions
Step 1
Special services, in particular, law enforcement agencies, have fairly complete databases of people. However, it is impossible for an ordinary person to gain access to such information without special powers. And this is correct, since the opening of access to confidential information can lead to abuse, up to actions that can harm a citizen.
Step 2
But you and I, of course, belong to law-abiding citizens and will not look for workarounds. Quite often, significant information about a person can be obtained from readily available, legal and open sources. The widest opportunities in this regard are provided by the Internet.
Step 3
In the most general case, the search for information about a person resembles the construction of a mosaic of many interconnected elements. Your task is to sequentially fill all the cells in the data structure by pulling out individual elements one by one.
Step 4
First of all, any person, as a rule, has geographic coordinates (address of the place of residence), virtual coordinates (phone numbers, e-mail addresses, instant messaging services). Moreover, quite often a modern person with access to network technologies can leave peculiar traces on various Internet resources (sites, forums, message boards, network diaries, etc.)
Step 5
Let's say you need to get as much information about a person as possible, having initially only a small part of the data (email address, phone number). The easiest way is to use the available piece of information as a query in one of the search engines. Often, such a request can lead to ads posted by a person on the network. Such ads can contain data about other coordinates, as well as find out what a person was selling, buying, what kind of work he was looking for, etc. The newly obtained information can also be used in subsequent searches, expanding the information field.
Step 6
There are also special network resources for finding people by addresses, vehicle numbers, birthdays, surnames. Some of them provide free access to information, but often the data may become outdated and out of date.
Step 7
Access to paid infobases can expand your options, but often there are inconveniences with time delays associated with payment and its confirmation. Another point is related to the trust in sites that provide paid services for the search for personal information. Depending on the complexity of the request and the completeness of the requested data, the service can cost you from several hundred to several thousand rubles.
Step 8
Today social networks provide you with practically inexhaustible possibilities of obtaining information about a specific person. However, in order to extract valuable public information from social networks, it is necessary to have certain knowledge in the field of social engineering, the skills of structuring and analyzing data sets.
