How to find out an address by first and last name? TOP 5 ways

Telephone directories and last name databases

To find a person this way, you need to know their full name. Directories can be in paper form or electronic. If you know the home phone number of the person of interest, this will simplify the search (if the person has several namesakes).

It's worth trying to get the address through the network. Write the name of the person of interest in the Yandex search engine, and it will offer several databases. Information can be obtained free of charge, without registration. There are databases in which you need to enter a login and password or pay for a search service.

Forms and methods of presenting information

The symbolic form of presenting information is the simplest; in it, each symbol has some meaning. For example: red traffic lights, turning indicators on vehicles, various gestures, abbreviations and symbols in formulas.

The text form of presenting information is more complex. This form provides that the content of the message is conveyed not through individual symbols (numbers, letters, signs), but through their combination and placement order. Symbols arranged in sequence form words, which in turn can form sentences. Text information is used in books, brochures, newspapers, magazines, etc.

The graphical form of presenting information, as a rule, has the largest volume. This form includes photographs, paintings, drawings, graphs and the like. The graphic form is more informative. Apparently, this is why, when we pick up a new book, the first thing we do is look for pictures in it in order to create the most complete impression of it.

Information can be presented in one of the following ways: letters and signs, gestures, music notes, drawings, paintings, sculptures, sound recordings, videos, films, and the like.

Information can be in the form of continuous (analog) and discrete (digital) signals.

Information in analog form changes its meaning gradually (thermometer, clock, speedometer, etc.).

Information in discrete form changes its value with a certain step (indicators of a digital watch, scales with weights, counting the number of objects, etc.).

Request to the Federal Migration Service

It can be submitted in person, sent by registered mail, or issued through the State Services website. In the application, indicate the person’s full name, date, and place of birth. Without this data, the search may take an indefinite time or it will be rejected. Information about a person will be provided if he has previously agreed to the transfer of information to third parties.

In the request submitted to the migration service, you must indicate your data and the reason for the search. When applying in person, you must present your passport. When making a written request, please indicate the address to which the paper with the response will be sent. The FMS will quickly provide information about the relative’s place of residence.

What reasons might arise for searching for a citizen?

In order not to suddenly rush into searching for a place of registration by first and last name, you need to first find out what the reason for these manipulations is.

There are several important reasons for searching for a person using last name, first name and patronymic:

1. The need for an urgent search arises when a person has violated the law and failed to appear at a court hearing.
2. If a citizen does not get in touch and does not pay alimony.
3. If a person is an heir.
4. The need to find loved ones or relatives to communicate with them.
5. If you buy used housing. This is done in order to check the absence of registered persons.

Search on government websites

If you need to calculate the contacts of a person over 18 years of age, you can contact the FSSP service.
The site displays information from bailiffs supervised by government agencies. For example, if a person has a debt, unpaid traffic fines or initiated enforcement proceedings, information about him will be on the service. To search, you need to go to the FSSP website. In the “Enforcement Proceedings” section, enter your full name and region of residence. After processing the request, the system will issue a response about the registration address of the specific person. If you have an enforcement proceedings number, enter it in the search bar, you will quickly find out information about the debtor.

Addresses of Russian residents are available in the tax authorities' databases. Upon receipt of a TIN, a person is registered at his place of residence. If the person you need to find has registered an individual entrepreneur, the information file will contain information about his legal address, where the individual often lives.

How to find out a person's registration by name

The duration of searches, as well as their results, largely depend on how much information is known about a given person.

An ordinary citizen has much less opportunity for a positive outcome of the search than government agencies. It is very difficult to independently find a person only by his last name, but if you put in a lot of effort, it is possible.

An important role is played by how common the surname of the wanted citizen is. In the case where there is information about his patronymic, as well as his name, the search procedure is greatly simplified. The geography of the search is no less important because, knowing the specific region where he lives, it will be easier to find him. If the area or city is known, this will make the search even easier than if you search for it throughout the country.

Who is requesting information?

The speed with which a citizen will be found by name depends on who exactly is looking for him.

Information about where a person is registered may be requested by:

• Organizations that issue loans if the person you are looking for took out a loan.
• State traffic inspectorate bodies.
• Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
• Employees involved in the personnel policy of the organization in which the wanted person is registered.
• Social services.
• Prosecutor's office.

When a private person, and not one of the listed organizations, wants to find out information about registration, the procedure becomes much more complicated. The thing is that the personal data of each citizen is classified and is protected by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

In order to obtain information about the registration of a citizen, one name and surname is not enough; data from his passport is needed. How can you find out where a person is registered based on his passport data? There are many sites on the Internet that offer this service. They offer to enter personal passport data, but this is not worth doing; often these are scammers; you need to contact reliable sites, the main ones being the FSN website and Rosreestr.

Find out what Moscow registration gives you. What is the penalty for expired registration? Read in the article.

Social media

To do this, you need to have a VKontakte, Odnoklassniki profile. A search by last name should be done in an expanded form, where there are different filters. They can contain additional information. For example, about educational institutions, interests. If you know that you may have mutual friends, find them on social networks. Look for the one you need through the “Friends” tab. This type of online search is convenient because, if you don’t know your first and last name, you can view photographs of persons that the system suggests.

How to “get” a person onto the Internet: we use Google operators and logic

In the next article in our series of publications dedicated to Internet intelligence, we will look at how Google's advanced search operators allow you to quickly find the necessary information about a specific person.

In the comments to our first article, readers asked for more practical examples and screenshots, so in this article we will have a lot of practice and graphics. To demonstrate the capabilities of “advanced” Google search, the author’s personal accounts were selected as targets. This was done so as not to offend anyone with excessive interest in his private life. I want to immediately warn you that I never set out to hide my presence on the Internet, so the methods described are suitable for collecting data about ordinary people, and may not be very effective for de-anonymizing fake accounts created for one-time events. I suggest that interested readers repeat the examples of requests regarding their accounts and evaluate how easy it is to collect information on them.

Before collecting and analyzing information about a specific person, it is necessary to present the whole picture of what data exists about the person.

Such a map needs to be detailed to the level necessary to solve a specific problem. Any search for information begins with some initial set of data. In our case, this will be the last name, first name and place of work. The rest of the data is somewhere, but we cannot yet link it with the existing data. Therefore, we form hypotheses and test them using search queries.

Sources of information about a person can be:

1. himself: accounts on social networks, blog, etc.;
2. state: databases of tax authorities, bailiffs, courts, etc. See links in article
3. someone else (friends, enemies, media, employer, etc.)

In this article we will consider point 1. – we will calculate the author’s accounts on social networks.

Goal number one: usernames

What is a nickname and how do we choose it?

Nick represents our name on the Internet: we choose it when creating our personal mailbox, and then often use it in various services.

We are not limited in any way when choosing nicknames, but there are favorite algorithms for forming our Internet names:

1. Games with your name: last name, first name+last name, first name+year of birth, first name+date, initials;
2. Games with the names of your favorite characters (tovbender, napoleon);
3. A little about yourself: profession, psychology (coolhacker, murmur);
4. Demonstration of hobbies: footballer, boxer;
5. “So that no one guesses”: a word in reverse, a Russian word in an English layout, a word in Latin, etc.

If we don't know the nickname, but we know something about the person, we can already make assumptions and check them.

A good way to figure out a user's nickname is to search and analyze his pages on social networks and look for his personal email address.

You can start searching for information about a specific user with a simple query like the following:

john smith chamomile where “daisy” is the name of the company.

At the moment, we must remember that some features of the Google search engine:

• Google reads the query from left to right.
• Google does not distinguish case: "Earth" and "earth" are the same thing for it;
• the length of the request should not exceed 32 words;
• * represents one word in the query;
• you can search for an exact phrase by putting it in quotation marks;
• between the words in the query there is an invisible logical “AND”;
• Google itself can inflect words;
• The “-” operator excludes from output results that contain an expression placed immediately after this operator (necessarily without a space).
• At the top of the results are the pages that Google believes are the most relevant. Nevertheless, this is his guess, since he does not yet know how to read our thoughts;
• To refine the search parameters, you must be proficient in advanced search operators.

Now you can enter a similar query for the author of the article and get a lot of pages, among which should be the pages you are looking for on social networks:

There is a lot of information in the search engine results, and in order to find pages on social networks we will have to review a large number of pages.

Note:

By the way, what should we do if we want to find a person from a certain company, but have forgotten his last name? The asterisk operator can help here:

john*daisy

And if we are looking for a person from Romashka LLC, and there are a million such “Romashka”: JSC Romashka, ANO Romashka, FSUE Romashka, etc.

Option 1. Search for the full phrase “Romashka LLC.”

Option 2. “Minus” unnecessary words: -ANO – JSC –FSUE (but this way you can also “minus” the necessary results, for example, if the page says that our “Romashka” has become friends with the FSUE “Apelsin”.

Now we need to narrow the search results and find the page of the author of the article on the social network VKontakte. This will allow us to determine one of the user's nicknames, and then calculate the email address. To do this, it will be useful to use an operator such as site. It limits the search to a specific domain at any level.

The second link already leads to the page of the author of the article on the VKontakte network. Please note that the author deliberately chose a short nickname: alexdorofeev. Not all Internet resources allow you to set a link to your page yourself; sometimes it is generated automatically, but may contain a nickname taken from an email address.

Using the information and knowledge obtained, we will try to find a similar page on Facebook.

First, for luck, we will enter the following URL in the browser: https://www.facebook.com/alexdorofeev, but, unfortunately, we will see that the page belongs to someone else. Then we’ll use a proven technique and add site:facebook.com to the request.

The search results do not contain a direct link to the profile we are looking for, since the user was vigilant at one time and prohibited “surrendering” his page to search engines

Here it is necessary to make a small digression again and remember how search engines, including Google, work.

What can search engines do and what can’t they do?

Search engines generally work according to the following algorithm:

1. Search engine bots crawl sites;
2. page content is indexed;
3. Based on user requests, links to relevant pages are retrieved.

Search engines cannot:

• index information that can only be accessed by authorized users;
• data that is available after filling out forms, for example, results of downloading from various databases;
• qualitatively extract information from video, photo, audio materials.

Some more nuances:

• context: the search result depends on the user’s request, the history of his previous requests, and the history of page views by other users;
• the search is carried out only in the language in which the user entered his request;
• there is some conflict of interest: search engines make money from advertising that users click on because the pages they need are not at the very top of the search results;
• Censorship is in effect due to the violation of someone’s rights (copyright, right to be forgotten, etc.).

Facebook belongs to the category of Internet resources that do not really favor indexing their site and this is directly reported in robots.txt:

To detect the page of a secretive user on Facebook, we will need to log in to this network and use the built-in search functionality. A link to a user’s page may “leak” and end up in search engine results, but only if the user deliberately published the material under his authorship for everyone to see.

Using the search, the author's page is easily found:

By analyzing the page URL, we can determine another username: adorofeev.

Thus, we have already obtained two nicknames: alexdorofeev and adorofeev. Since there are a lot of users on popular resources, the nickname may differ from what a person really likes to use, since his “native” identifier is already taken by someone. For this reason, the author of the article has a nickname on Habré: alexdorofeeff, although I like adorofeev more.

Knowing the nickname, we can look for more pages potentially associated with the desired person.

Here we will again digress to Google and remember the following points:

• By default, Google looks for an expression (a word or phrase enclosed in quotation marks) in all parts of the page: in the URL, in the title, in the text, in the link text. At the same time, special “advanced” operators allow us to specify exactly where we need the text we are looking for to be. To do this, we need to use the operators: inurl:, intext:, intitle:, inanchor:, as well as their brothers with the prefix all.
• Google understands Boolean expressions and parentheses. AND is a logical “AND”, by default it stands between words separated by spaces in the search line. OR or I – logical “OR”.
• If we use an operator, then after the colon there must be the desired expression without a space.
• The all operators allow them to be applied to a series of expressions after a colon, separated by spaces. For the same tasks, you can use operators without all, but with brackets and logical expressions.

Let's play around with the inurl operator, which searches for pages that contain the desired word in the page URL. Since we already know several nicknames of the author, we can make the following request:

inurl:(adorofeev | alexdorofeeff | alexdorofeev)

In the search results, we will immediately find the pages of the corresponding accounts and some of the pages will belong to the author. Thus, if we have assumptions about the nicknames used, we can get a list of potentially interesting pages at the very beginning of our research.

Closing the topic with nicknames, I would like to draw your attention to services that allow you to quickly find out whether a given nickname is used in a number of popular resources. This way we can find additional pages for a specific person. An example of such a service: https://namechk.com/

How to find out email?

Now, having obtained a set of the user’s favorite nicknames, we can try to find out his personal e-mail. Why is it needed? Sometimes you need to find out whether a particular e-mail belongs to a given person in order to determine the authorship of the letter. E-mail will also be useful for searching for advertisements left by the user on forums, etc.

We know the nicknames, but we don't yet know the domains of the mail services. So let's make some assumptions and check. Since the user is from Russia, it is most likely that he uses one or more of the following services:

• Mail.ru
• Yandex Mail
• Google Gmail
• Rambler mail

Accordingly, we can generate addresses (our hypotheses at the moment) with the nicknames adorofeev, alexdorofeev and alexdorofeeff.

How can we check whether such addresses actually exist? One option: “talk” a little with the mail servers of each service using the SMTP protocol:

Step 1. Find a mail server for a specific domain.

nslookup -type=mx "domain name"

Step 2. Connect to the mail server and simulate the start of sending a message. If the server responds “OK” to the recipient’s name, then there is such an account.

Option 1: email exists.

telnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25

Option 2: email does not exist.

Email verification

Having determined whether postal addresses exist, we can try to determine whether a specific address is associated with the person we need.

On mail.ru, some users create their own pages, which can be accessed as follows: my.mail.ru/mail/nick/

We “punch” one of the addresses:

You can also view user pages on all Mail.ru projects using a combination of the inurl: and site operators already known to us:

inurl: nickname site: mail.ru

If we know what a person looks like, know his name, or even already found his page on the social network VKontakte (our case), then the task of checking the ownership of a specific email address is greatly simplified. We can use a mechanism to restore access to the page. We need luck: a user with such an address must exist, and post his photo.

Let's check four options for addresses for the nickname “adorofeev” and see that for two addresses there are no pages at all, for one there is a different name:

But for the corresponding address on Gmail.com we find the author’s page:

So, we have figured out the real personal email address.

How to calculate a corporate email address?

Here the situation is much simpler. The thing is that many organizations have their own rules for forming names for email accounts, which are not very diverse: initials + surname, first letter of name + surname, etc. We just need to understand what rule is used in a particular company in order to use it to form the address of the person we need.

We send the following request to Google:

email @domain

Scrolling through the search results, we find the individual addresses of employees and everything becomes obvious.

How to find an Instagram user using geo tags?

Now let's try to figure out the author's Instagram account. First, we check the most obvious options: https://www.instagram.com/adorofeev/, https://www.instagram.com/alexdorofeeff and https://www.instagram.com/alexdorofeev/ We see that these are the wrong accounts .

Having determined that a person works for a specific company, we can search for photos with the corresponding geo-tag. In our case it will be “NPO Eshelon”.

We see that publications with this geo-tag were mostly made by company employees. It is logical to assume that among the subscribers of many employees there should be an account of the author, which we can easily find:

How to use a time machine?

Carrying out a similar analysis regarding the Twitter account, you can find that the author ran the website adorofeev.ru, which is now not available. What to do in this situation? After all, the materials of the disappeared site may be of real interest. In the author’s practice, there was a situation when a similar disappeared site contained published materials from a criminal case, which was interesting to read.

If the site was turned off quite recently, then Google can help us again, offering the cache operator: with which you can retrieve cached pages retrieved by the search engine.

cache:www.adorofeev.ru/

We see that the site was still on on February 5th, but there was nothing interesting about it.

I really want to look into the more distant past - a few years ago. A time machine would be suitable for this and, oddly enough, it exists and is available to any inquisitive user at: https://archive.org/web/

“Punching” the author’s website, you can see that there were some materials there in the past:

Moreover, by selecting certain dates, you can see the site content at a specific moment:

Instead of a conclusion: a few words about process automation and other Google operators

Is it possible to automate the process of finding interesting information using Google? It’s possible, and there are already good attempts: theHarvester script.

It should be noted that Google does not welcome this and is fighting it, so the reliability of the results of using all kinds of scripts will have to be further checked. Even just playing with the completely legal operators that we discussed above, you will constantly see a captcha and will prove that you are not a robot.

The article turned out to be quite lengthy and we did not consider many other Google advanced search operators that can also be useful in Internet intelligence. If the use of operators in a similar vein is interesting, then we will definitely continue this topic in one of the following articles.

Literature

1. What’s in my name for you: how to effectively “break through” a person on the Internet?
2. Internet intelligence in action: who is Mr./Ms. Habraman?
3. Social Media in Identifying Threats to Ensure Safe Life in a Modern City Aleksandr Dorofeev, Alexey Markov, Valentin Tsirlov
4. Google Hacking for Penetration Testers, Third Edition 3rd Edition by Johnny Long, Bill Gardner, Justin Brown.

Search sites

You can find out a person’s residential address using services that offer people search. They come on both a paid and free basis. Lists of people can be filtered by different criteria - full name, job. Yandex and Google services will return all references to a person when you enter the last name in the search bar.

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Using the “Wait for Me” website, knowing only your first and last name

Thanks to the television program “Wait for Me,” many viewers not only in Russia, but also in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and other countries know about the possibility of searching for people on the site https://poisk.vid.ru/. Check if they are looking for you in Wait for me on the official website.

Search bar on the site poisk.vid.ru

This is an international project that helps to search for people using any known data. Using it, you can not only determine a person’s address, but also find out if anyone is looking for you. If you are looking for your relative or long-time friend, then try searching for him through this service.

Registration on the “Wait for Me” website

Enter your first and last name directly on the main page by clicking on the “Search” button. If the search does not produce results, try leaving a request on the site. But for this you need to register. And as soon as any information appears, the “Wait for Me” project support operator will immediately contact you. On the website you can find a phone number to contact support. Using it, you can immediately try to find out the person’s address by providing his personal information.

Another way to get information

If you know a person's mobile number, you can find out their first name and the first letter of their last name, and that's already something. In addition, it may be possible to find out the email address.

So, in order to do this, follow these instructions:

1. Log out of your ok.ru account and click on the item “Forgot your password”.

1. Next, select a mobile number as a recovery method.

1. Now enter the phone number we are looking for and press the button marked “2” in the screenshot.

1. After processing the request, we will receive a result in which we will see the name of the person who registered this number and, if specified, an email address. Unfortunately, not completely. But this is already the result.

In any project on the Internet, you can always find places that were underdeveloped or overlooked by the developers; hackers call them holes. Everyone’s favorite social network Odnoklassniki.ru also has some interesting loopholes. Using these hidden features, you will stand out from the crowd and become more interesting and unpredictable for your friends: smile:. Today we will reveal some secrets in Odnoklassniki. For many, it will be tempting to use the social media tricks provided.

1. How to log into Odnoklassniki from a computer so that the login from your phone is displayed?

When you log into the site from a mobile phone, the word mobile appears under your avatar. The same can be done if you log in from your home computer. To do this, the system must recognize the connection via a mobile phone (WAP connection). Just enter the link in the address bar of your browser:

https://m.odnoklassniki.ru

In this case, when you log in, the design and functions of the site will be the same as in the mobile version.

The old version of the phone is available by simulating Odnoklassniki WAP and entering the following link in the browser address bar:

https://wap.odnoklassniki.ru

2. How to find out a friend’s birthday and the date of creation of a profile in Odnoklassniki?

A WAP connection has another secret advantage. Thanks to it, it is very easy to find out the user's real birthday and the time when the profile was created: smile:. The trick on how to connect to the mobile version of WAP on the Odnoklassniki website is described above in paragraph 1.

Go to the friends section of your account and select the person about whom you want to know information. In the menu, click on Questionnaire and we will see the required data:

3. How to view a closed group?

You need to send a request to join the group. You will receive an invitation with Accept, Decline and View group links available. Just the last function is a trick and is needed to view the group, but you should not accept or reject the offer. In this case, you will not be a member of the group and will be able to easily view it, but only if you are not on the blacklist.

4. How to get a lot of 5+ ratings?

The most commonplace and effective method is to pay for the service (see the example of paying for invisible services via SMS and using electronic money) and get the opportunity to give 5+ ratings. Next, look for friends who are currently on the site and give as many of your acquaintances as possible a five plus. Now all that remains is to wait for the response. According to statistics, more than half reciprocate: smile:.

Now you also know about some of the tricks and secrets of the Odnoklassniki website.

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Why registration information may be useful

The main document that confirms identity is a passport. It contains information that allows you to identify the owner:

• FULL NAME,
• Date and place of birth,
• floor,
• Family status,
• place of registration,
• information about military service.

The uniqueness of the document is determined by a special set of numbers - the passport number. That is why the information obtained from these data is the most reliable.

Reasons why it may be necessary to find out where a person was previously registered include the following:

1. The desire to return a lost document to its owner.
2. To be held liable or called as a defendant when filing a lawsuit in court.
3. Search for debtors, escaped participants in road accidents or alimony defaulters.
4. Search for heirs: legal or by will.
5. Searching for close relatives with whom contact has been lost.
6. Obtaining registration information when purchasing real estate on the secondary market.

For these reasons, you may also need to find out the last name at the registration address.

What is the liability for illegal activities?

According to the law, namely Art. 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for liability for an attempt on the privacy of a person. Therefore, if the search for information is aimed at distributing it, then the punishment may be in the form of:

• the indicated amount of penalties;
• deduction of earnings for a certain period;
• referrals to community forced labor;
• ban on professional activities;
• imprisonment.

Therefore, if a citizen who is interested in information regarding another person has selfish goals, it is worth thinking about the consequences that may arise in the future. In any case, when applying for information, you must justify your request.

How IP Addresses Work

Understanding how IP addresses work can help you figure out why a certain device isn't connecting as expected and troubleshoot network problems.

Internet Protocol works like any other language: it transmits information using established rules. Devices discover other connected devices and exchange information with them using this protocol. Simply put, all computers, no matter where they are, can communicate with each other.

The use of IP addresses usually occurs unnoticed. The process works as follows:

1. A device does not connect to the Internet directly: it first connects to a network connected to the Internet, and the network, in turn, provides the device with access to the Internet.
2. If you are at home, this network is most likely your ISP's network. In the office, this will be your company's network.
3. The IP address is assigned to the device by your Internet service provider.
4. Your Internet activity goes through your Internet Service Provider, and it forwards responses to your requests using your IP address. Since the ISP provides Internet access, its role is to assign an IP address to your device.
5. However, your IP address may change, for example when you turn your modem or router on or off. You can also contact your ISP to change your IP address.
6. If you are away from home, such as traveling, and take your device with you, your home IP address is not assigned to the device. This is because the device will use a different network (Wi-Fi at a hotel, airport, cafe) to access the Internet and a different temporary IP address assigned by the ISP at the hotel, airport, or cafe.

As this process suggests, there are different types of IP addresses, which will be described below.

Is it possible to get a foreign passport in the Russian Federation without registration?

Is it possible to get a foreign passport without a residence permit? Today, a similar question is asked quite often. This fact is explained by the fact that the mobility of the population in our time has increased significantly and the link between the issuance of documents and registration, like this institution itself, has become an anachronism. But since most people are unable to change the current situation, they should adapt to it and understand what needs to be done to obtain a foreign passport without registration.

The need to obtain a foreign passport without registration usually arises in three cases:

when selling/purchasing a home, when one home has been sold and the other has not yet been purchased or registered; when living for a long time in an apartment rented in another region; for long-term business trips, shifts.

Although the listed situations present certain problems, they are not insurmountable obstacles to obtaining a foreign passport. Both adults and children can receive this document without registration; it is only necessary to fully understand the essence of the registration process and take into account all its nuances.

Is it possible to find an address using a mobile phone number?

Thanks to the development of information technology, today anyone can find out the address by phone number for free. To do this, you just need to know the sources of available services, which programs will cope with this task, and how to use them. The most common free methods include the following:

• use of programs installed on a personal computer;
• mobile services for iPhone and Android operating systems;
• using information from social networks Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki and Facebook.

Despite the fact that searching for information about the owner of the subscriber number of any mobile operator is a confidential issue, it is still possible to circumvent this complexity in alternative ways.