After creating your virtual machine or downloading a certain browser that you are going to use throughout
this Osint investigation, and choosing which online identity you would like to use, the next step
is to create an email address.
Now the problem when creating an email address like a Gmail or Outlook email address, is that they
always ask you to enter your current email address, and we don't want our Sockpuppet account to be
associated with our personal identity, which is why we are going to use an email provider called Fastmail.
So to create a fast mail email address, you want to go to fast gmail.com.
And then you want to click on try for free because they have a subscription, but you can actually try
the service for 30 days.
And this is usually more than enough.
And you don't need to enter your credit card details so you can add the name that you have chosen,
and then you can choose your email address.
For example, any online identity that you want to use and if you are searching for someone or if you
are living in the United States, for example, then I highly recommend you select, for example Fastmail.
Us.
And if you are not living in the United States, for example, you are living in Germany or Spain,
then I recommend you use the top level domain of your country.
For example, I can say D for Germany and then I can set a password and create my free account.
After you create a fastmail email address, you need to verify this email address with the phone number.
And since we do not want to use our personal phone number because we want to separate our online covered
account with our personal identity.
So to do this, we need to get a burner phone number.
And a burner number means that this number is not related to your real identity.
So in this case, you want to choose a prepaid card that can be activated without an ID.
So if you are living in the United States, then you can get a mint mobile phone number.
It only costs $2.
You can buy it from Best Buy or from Amazon, and I think from their official website as well.
And you'll get 250MB for free and 250 texts and 250 minutes, which I think is enough.
And you need to use the SIM card to activate your email address and activate your social media accounts.
And if you are living in the European Union, then you can use a SIM card from Lebara from Netherland.
It can be activated by sending an SMS.
So now you have a fast mail email and a burner number.
The next step is to go to a library or a coffee to create your accounts, because if you use a VPN,
then Facebook will detect that you are using a VPN and would immediately ask you to add additional information
like a phone number.
And sometimes it will ask you to add your personal picture to your profile.
And this is why it's very important to go to a library or a cafe to create your accounts.
After this, you need to keep your accounts active by following some pages, liking some posts, and
adding friends, etc..
And you need to log in at least twice a week so that Facebook or Instagram or any other account doesn't
think that you have created a fake account.
In addition to that, to make your account even more believable, I highly recommend you add two factor
authentication.
This will tell Facebook, Instagram and all other social media platforms that you are serious about
your account and only people who want to secure their account use two factor authentication.
So let's recap this.
First of all, you need to create a virtual machine or use a different browser and then choose an online
identity that you want to use to search for a certain person.
Once you choose your online identity, you need to create an email address.
And we are using Fastmail because it's still unknown.
And I think that at some point Facebook or any other social media platform will put it under its suspicious
email providers because this happens all the time.
And next you want to activate your fastmail email with a burner phone number.
And after that, you want to go to a library or a coffee to create your accounts so that we can make
it legit.
And then you can create your accounts, and you want to make sure that you want to keep these accounts
active by posting, liking, maybe commenting, following pages, etc. and you need to log in at least
twice a week so that Facebook doesn't think that this is a fake account.
And in addition to that, you can use two factor authentication to make your account less suspicious.