WEBVTT 00:01.140 --> 00:06.780 In this video, we're talking about checking your online date using Osint for verification purposes. 00:07.920 --> 00:12.990 Now, when you're dating online, you never know what you're getting, to be honest. 00:13.020 --> 00:16.680 It could be a person that you're actually looking for. 00:16.710 --> 00:18.840 That's actually presenting themselves properly. 00:18.840 --> 00:20.730 Or it could be someone that's lying. 00:20.760 --> 00:24.450 It could be someone being malicious or even dangerous in some cases. 00:24.900 --> 00:29.760 That's where online actually comes in handy to verify certain things about people. 00:30.240 --> 00:32.790 In order to protect yourself. 00:34.220 --> 00:41.930 So there's a lot of different online dating apps out there eHarmony, Match, Tinder, OkCupid, Bumble. 00:42.710 --> 00:48.740 There's a staggering number, and all of them have some sort of or some level of protection in there. 00:49.040 --> 00:53.480 However, it is still easy to get in there and to lie. 00:53.830 --> 00:59.270 A matter of fact, I have a sock puppet in different online dating sites and. 01:00.670 --> 01:06.850 Even if they have verifications like photos, and that I'm able to use sock puppets and AI generated 01:06.850 --> 01:12.190 images to create a fake profile well enough to get past these different things. 01:12.190 --> 01:19.240 So it's not that hard to get around certain verifications for these online dating sites. 01:19.240 --> 01:20.890 So you do need to be careful. 01:22.190 --> 01:29.030 Now say, for example, this woman is trying thinks that they're going to be dating or talking with 01:29.030 --> 01:35.480 a nice young man, and it turns out to be a very horrible person that's looking to do some harm, whether 01:35.480 --> 01:39.740 it's physical or financial or just messing with the person. 01:40.830 --> 01:42.540 That's where ozone comes in handy. 01:42.960 --> 01:47.160 Now, we could take a look at different things on a profile. 01:47.340 --> 01:53.520 Now, profiles are generally pretty standard across whichever service you're using, you're generally 01:53.520 --> 02:00.960 going to get a username, some sort of story or little blurb that they that they have some tagline, 02:00.960 --> 02:01.740 whatever. 02:02.220 --> 02:08.400 And we could actually take this and use O's and to kind of figure out if they're legitimate or not. 02:08.400 --> 02:14.850 And we we kind of use the same steps we use for things like social media and what whatnot. 02:15.180 --> 02:18.090 So the first thing we take a look at is the name. 02:18.180 --> 02:21.540 We can see the name here on this one is Silly Billy. 02:21.810 --> 02:25.620 And 33 is their age, or at least what they put down. 02:25.620 --> 02:32.430 We see the image of them and we can see what story they wrote or what what information they put down. 02:33.810 --> 02:39.780 Now, first of all, with the with the name, we can go to sites like instant username search. 02:39.780 --> 02:45.720 We can punch in that name, Silly Billy, and see where else that's potentially being used. 02:46.430 --> 02:52.940 From there, we can take that name and check those sites and kind of see if that information meshes. 02:53.360 --> 02:58.040 If what he's seen in his profile is actually matching what he says elsewhere. 02:59.230 --> 03:01.570 Other great sites are social catfish. 03:02.110 --> 03:07.510 We put that name into social catfish and we can get additional information. 03:07.900 --> 03:11.260 In this case, we found five records for silly Billy. 03:11.380 --> 03:20.860 Now it looks like that name is most likely Billy Hazelwood from Easley, South Carolina, or Greenville, 03:21.070 --> 03:23.230 South Carolina area. 03:23.650 --> 03:29.770 Now, you could first take that name in that location and match it up with what they're saying in their 03:29.770 --> 03:30.580 profile. 03:30.610 --> 03:34.630 Are they actually seeing they're from South Carolina or are they saying they're from somewhere else? 03:34.660 --> 03:37.510 Well, if you're saying they're from somewhere else. 03:38.450 --> 03:39.380 Maybe they're lying. 03:39.410 --> 03:40.610 Maybe they moved. 03:40.790 --> 03:42.830 But that is something to look for. 03:42.860 --> 03:46.330 We could see male gender spoke only English. 03:46.340 --> 03:48.010 We could see a partial phone number. 03:48.020 --> 03:49.280 We can see partial IDs. 03:49.280 --> 03:53.180 We can see that they have a LinkedIn account or a couple of LinkedIn accounts potentially, and we can 03:53.180 --> 03:54.800 kind of track it down through their. 03:56.880 --> 03:57.540 For the image. 03:57.540 --> 04:04.470 We could use things like Google Images, Pimeyes, Yandex and Bing image rater, all sorts of different 04:04.470 --> 04:05.910 reverse insurgency. 04:05.940 --> 04:08.100 Where else that image was used? 04:08.800 --> 04:16.240 And in here we're using Google and we could find that image was used elsewhere and we can kind of track 04:16.240 --> 04:21.460 down those links and see if that person image is legitimate. 04:21.460 --> 04:23.970 Do they do they grab it from something else? 04:23.980 --> 04:26.980 Is it being used somewhere else and presented differently? 04:27.400 --> 04:31.990 But reverse image searching is a very handy option for this. 04:33.540 --> 04:40.650 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 04:40.650 --> 04:45.170 with a with some matches with 86% of. 04:46.390 --> 04:50.320 Accuracy here, or at least it considers 86%. 04:50.320 --> 04:53.380 And it looks it looks like it is the same person. 04:53.560 --> 04:56.620 So for Pimeyes, you would have to pay. 04:57.300 --> 05:04.260 Pay to you actually unlock these things here, Or what you could do is we can simply take these images, 05:04.260 --> 05:10.530 snip it out, copy it, whatever, and re fit it into, say, Google or Yandex or Bing or these other 05:10.530 --> 05:14.280 image searches and see if we can find where else those photos were being used. 05:16.150 --> 05:21.970 Now the information that they put down, We want to take a look at certain things, break down the posts 05:21.970 --> 05:25.270 for useful information as opposed to generic. 05:25.270 --> 05:27.160 Well, if it is, it might be a bot. 05:27.520 --> 05:29.980 Is there unusual grammar or spelling mistakes? 05:29.980 --> 05:36.660 Well, that's not necessarily a sign of deceit, but it you do want to make a note of that does the 05:36.670 --> 05:37.480 information. 05:38.240 --> 05:45.410 Differ from the other profiles that you found on different sites, like if they have Instagram or Snapchat 05:45.410 --> 05:48.020 account, does an information match up? 05:48.650 --> 05:53.780 Well, if it doesn't, then you you might want to be a little bit on your guard. 05:55.770 --> 05:58.290 We also could take that information that they put in. 05:58.320 --> 06:01.380 If they have some sort of story or blurb or something. 06:01.510 --> 06:07.110 You can put in things like plagiarism checker, like a plagiarism detector and see if that was used 06:07.110 --> 06:08.090 anywhere else. 06:08.100 --> 06:08.910 If it was. 06:08.910 --> 06:12.810 Of course, we go back to that site and we take a look at that information. 06:15.930 --> 06:22.680 And in this case, we could see that if this was I'm using a mark Twain quote, quote, We can see it 06:22.680 --> 06:28.080 was plagiarized and it gives us a link where where that was potentially used. 06:28.080 --> 06:29.160 We can go to that site again. 06:29.160 --> 06:31.230 We could check and verify the information. 06:32.910 --> 06:37.770 Other things we could do is if we have a name, a phone number, email address and whatnot. 06:37.830 --> 06:45.120 Of course, we could put into different people search engines, things like spy dialer, People tell 06:45.120 --> 06:51.840 us Spokeo, all sorts of different search engines and do our research that way also. 06:54.050 --> 06:54.530 In. 06:54.530 --> 07:01.160 Generally we'll get even if we don't pay for it, it'll give us a location, it'll give us age, possible 07:01.160 --> 07:03.080 known relatives and whatnot. 07:05.240 --> 07:11.300 And we also could do things like a Google advanced search insert entering different keywords and different 07:11.300 --> 07:14.960 information to find out in different different stuff about them. 07:15.350 --> 07:19.580 So we have a lot of different different options when we're doing online dating. 07:19.760 --> 07:23.540 Olson So it's always great to be careful out there. 07:24.370 --> 07:30.310 If you are going online dating, of course we could use those and you should use those and to verify 07:30.310 --> 07:31.480 and protect yourself. 07:31.480 --> 07:38.860 And if we're verifying information for a client, for example, and we have to take the online dating 07:38.860 --> 07:42.530 route, these are some tips to help you with that investigation. 07:42.550 --> 07:43.740 Thank you for watching. 07:43.750 --> 07:44.740 I'll see you next video.