Let's recap what we have learned in this section.
In this section, we have focused on how to find information that are associated with any email address.
You can try these methods with a personal email address or a business email address.
Because I have seen that sometimes people use their business email address to register on multiple websites.
So the first thing we have learned is how we can search for the person's email address on search engines,
because sometimes you will be able to find some search results that contain the person's email address.
And if you have searched for the person email address on multiple search engines and you have got no
search results, then you can search for the first part of the email address on search engines.
For example Rishi Kabra 132 or RK 132 plays for example, because this will show you whether the person
has used the first part of their email address as username on their social media accounts.
Next, if you would like to gather some initial information about any email address, then you can use
a service like email report IO.
That will give you the email reputation.
This will show you whether an email address is reputable or not, whether it has any social media presence
or whether it is a spammy email address, whether it can receive emails or not, or whether it has been
found in data leaks or not.
And the third method that we have learned is to identify whether an email address is registered on a
list of websites.
We have used Epos, CAS, trick, and Osint industries that will give us a lot of information about
any email address, because it will go out there and check whether an email address has an account on
a certain website or not, and it will utilize the password reset feature to gather some information
about this account.
And if the email address has been found in a data leak or a data breach, then you can go and download
this data leak or data breach and search for this email address to find additional information like
date of birth, phone number or any other information.
And if you don't want to download a data leak or a data breach just by seeing the websites that has
been breached and has this email address in its database will give you an ID about the person, location,
or their hobbies or likes.
And if the person has a Gmail account, then you can try the password reset function on the website
to try to find the recovery options that the person is using, because this will give you an ID of the
phone number they use or which phone they are using.
That's always different from a person to a person.
And lastly, if you were not able to find the person's LinkedIn account, then you can use signal higher.
Find my lead feature that will allow you to check whether an email address or a phone number is linked
to a LinkedIn account or not.