Researching Spammers
- Known Spammers
- Public Records
- Dial Codes
- Whitepages
- Corporate
- Postal
- Email Addresses
- Search Engines
- Maps
Known Spammers
Is the spammer you are researching already well-known elsewhere? Make sure to check here first. Alternatively, are you doing a background check before hiring someone? Make sure they're not a known spammer.
Public Records
US Public Records
General US Public Records
USSearch - www.ussearch.com/consumer/index.jsp
Public Records Information - www.publicrecordsinfo.com/
Background Check Gateway - www.backgroundcheckgateway.com/
Public Record Finder - www.publicrecordfinder.com/
PublicData - www.publicdata.com/
Public Records Online - www.netronline.com/public_records.htm
Public Records from KnowX - www.knowx.com/
InteliUS - find.intelius.com/
Free Public Records Directory - publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/
SnoopStation - www.snoopstation.com/
People Records - www.peoplerecords.com/
Specialist US Public Records
Get Home Prices - realestate.yahoo.com/Homevalues
Find a Lawyer by Name - www.martindale.com/
United States Patent and Trademark Office - www.uspto.gov/
Bureau of Prisons - www.bop.gov/inmate_locator/
American Board of Medical Specialties - www.abms.org/
US States Public Records
State and Local Government on the net - www.statelocalgov.net/
National Association of Secretaries of State - www.nass.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=223
State Public Records Database Searches - www.pimall.com/nais/link-statdb.html
State Records - www.crimetime.com/bbostate.htm
Secretary of State websites - www.danbalsam.com/danhatesspam/sos.html
International Public Records
Internet Prospector - www.internet-prospector.org/inter.html
Internet Prospector People Searches - www.internet-prospector.org/bio.html
Virtual Librarian's Investigator's Toolkit - www.virtuallibrarian.com/it/
Spies Online - www.spiesonline.net/
Teknion Tracker - antichildporn.org/teknion.html
Skipease, People Search & Public Records Network - www.skipease.com/
Virtual Gumshoe - www.virtualgumshoe.com/
Search Systems - www.searchsystems.net/
Black Book Online - www.crimetime.com/online.htm
Craig Ball's Sampler of Informal Discovery Links - www.craigball.com/hotlinks.html
People Search Links - www.peoplesearchlinks.com/
Pipl - www.pipl.com/
Telephone Dialing Codes
International Calling Guide - www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/international/index.publisha
International Direct Dialing & National Direct Dialing - kropla.com/dialcode.htm
International Area Decoder - decoder.americom.com/
International Fone Finder - www.primeris.com/fonefind/ - see: fonefinder.net/
World Telephone Numbering Guide - www.wtng.info/
US & CA North American Numbering Plan - www.lincmad.com/
US & CA North American Numbering Plan - www.nanpa.com/
US & CA Telephone Prefix Location Directory - www.thedirectory.org/pref/
UK Phone Information - www.ukphoneinfo.com/
US Look up Area Codes - www.infospace.com/home/white-pages/reverse-area
North America Area Code Summary - tools.web-max.ca/codes.php
Whitepages
These list residential phone and address contacts. They also include some Yellowpages, which list corporate information.
International Whitepages
Yellow and White Pages on the World Wide Web - home.pi.net/~wvhwvh/ywpages.htm
World Directories - www.infospace.com/home/white-pages/world
Infobel World Telephone Directories - www.infobel.com/en/world/
Whitepages - wp.netscape.com/netcenter/whitepages.html?cp=wrpa
International White and Yellow Pages - www.wayp.com/
Whitepages.com International Directories - www.whitepages.com/intl_directories.xhtml
People Search Global - www.people-search-global.com/
Online Whitepages
ICQ Whitepages - www.icq.com/people/
Yahoo! Members Directory - members.yahoo.com/
AOL Members Directory - hometown.aol.com/
MSN Members Directory - spaces.live.com/
UK Whitepages/Directory Enquiries
192.com - www.192.com/
BT Directory Enquiries, 118500 - www.118500.com/
US Whitepages
US Whitepages Forward Lookup
freeality.com Reverse Lookup & E-Mail Search - www.freeality.com/findet.htm
AnyWho Whitepages - www.anywho.com/wp.html
WhoWhere - peoplesearch.lycos.com/whitepage/
Infospace Whitepages - www.infospace.com/home/white-pages
Yahoo! People Search - people.yahoo.com/
SuperPages People Pages - find.person.superpages.com/
Whitepages.com People Search - www.whitepages.com/person
Switchboard People Search - switchboard.intelius.com/
DexKnows Whitepages - dexknows.whitepages.com/
US Whitepages Reverse Lookup
White Pages Reverse Lookup - wp.netscape.com/netcenter/whitereverse.html
AnyWho Reverse Lookup - www.anywho.com/rl.html
InfoSpace Reverse Lookup - www.infospace.com/home/white-pages/reverse-phone
Whitepages.com Reverse Lookup - www.whitepages.com/reverse_phone
Switchboard Reverse Lookup - switchboard.intelius.com/reverselookup.php
US Whitepages Other Lookups
Mobile phone Number Directory service - www.mobilephoneno.com/
The Payphone Project - www.payphone-project.com/numbers/search.html
Canadian Whitepages
Canadian Whitepages Forward Lookup
CanPages People Search - www.canpages.ca/ps/
Whitepages.ca Whitepages - www.whitepages.ca/person
Canadian Whitepages Reverse Lookup
CanPages Reverse Lookup - www.canpages.ca/rl/
Whitepages.ca Reverse Lookup - www.whitepages.ca/reverse-phone
Corporate Information
Corporate filings and papers give useful information. Some of the public records and whitepages can also be valuable.
- International Corporate Information
- US Corporate Information
- CA Corporate Information
- UK Corporate Information
- AU Corporate Information
International Corporate Information
CorporateInformation - www.corporateinformation.com/
Better Business Bureau - www.bbb.org/
Fucked Company - www.fuckedcompany.com/
US Corporate Information
US Corporate Filings
SEC Filings & Forms (EDGAR) - www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
CorpTech Company Profiles - www.corptech.com/ - high-tech companies
US Yellow Pages
SuperPages - www.superpages.com/
AnyWho Yellowpages - www.anywho.com/yp.html
Whitepages.com Yellow Pages - www.whitepages.com/business
Switchboard Business Search - www.switchboard.com/swbd.main/dir/
DexKnows - www.dexknows.com/
US Yellow Pages Reverse Lookup
Netscape Yellow Pages Reverse Number Lookup - yellowpages.aol.com/
Directory of toll-free numbers - inter800.com/
Canada Corporate Information
Canada Corporate Filings
Strategis, Canada's Business and Consumer Site - www.ic.gc.ca/
Canada Yellow Pages
CanPages Business Directory - www.canpages.ca/
Whitepages.ca Business Search - www.whitepages.ca/business
Canada Yellow Pages Reverse Lookup
Canada Toll-Free Search - www.canadatollfree.ca/Search/
UK Corporate Information
UK Corporate Filings
Companies House - www.companieshouse.gov.uk/
UK Data Protection Register of data handlers - www.ico.gov.uk/ESDWebPages/search.asp
UK Yellow Pages
Yell.com - www.yell.com/ucs/HomePageAction.do
Australia Corporate Information
ABRpublic - www.abr.business.gov.au/
Postal Information
International Postal Information
Yahoo! Postal Information - dir.yahoo.com/Reference/postal_information/
Zip Codes & Postal Codes of the World - www.escapeartist.com/global10/zip.htm
US Postal Information
ZIP Code Lookup
Zip Code Lookups - www.usps.com/zip4/
ZIP code Lookup - zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm
US Post Office and Mailbox Location
Postnet Maildrop Locator - www.postnet.com/aboutus/locations/
Mail Drop Search Form - www.finaid.org/scholarships/maildropsearch.phtml
US Reverse Address Searches
InfoSpace Reverse Address - www.infospace.com/home/white-pages/reverse-address
Whitepages.com Reverse Address - www.whitepages.com/reverse_address
Smartpages Reverse Address - smartpages.whitepages.com/smartpages/reverse-address
UK Postal Information
Postcodes Online - https://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/postcodefinder?pageId=pol_login&catId=400145&_requestid=156123&cs=1 - must register
UK Postcode Finder - www.alexnolan.net/onlinetools/ukpostcodefinder.htm
Find Postcodes - www.allies-computing.co.uk/find-address-postcode-demo.html
CA Postal Information
Canada Post Postal Code Lookup - www.canadapost.ca/tools/pcl/bin/advanced-e.asp
Rural Addresses & Post Office Boxes Search - www.canadapost.ca/tools/pcl/bin/rural-e.asp
Whitepages.ca Reverse Address Search - www.whitepages.ca/reverse-address
Email Addresses
How to Find Email Addresses
This isn't a guide on scraping the web for email addresses - this is to help with research of spammers, not by spammers.
How to find people's E-mail addresses - www.faqs.org/faqs/finding-addresses/
How to find Email Addresses - www.faqs.org/faqs/finding-addresses/
Email Address Directories
@ddresses.com - www.addresses.com/
MetaEmailSearchAgent - www.metager.de/
Usenet Addresses Database - usenet-addresses.mit.edu
Yahoo! People Search - people.yahoo.com/
InfoSpace Email Search - www.infospace.com/home/white-pages/email-search
Email Finder - www.emailfinder.com/
People Search Links – Email Search - www.peoplesearchlinks.com/email/
Email Reverse Lookup
@ddresses.com Reverse Email Lookup - phonenumbers.addresses.com/phone.php
InfoSpace Reverse Email Lookup - www.infospace.com/home/white-pages/reverse-email
Email Change Services
EmailChange - www.emailchange.com/
Switchemail - www.switchemail.com/
FreshAddress - www.freshaddress.com/home.cfm
Find mE-Mail - www.findmemail.com/
Search Engines
Major Search Engines
SearchEngineWatch Links - searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=links
Archive.org - www.archive.org/
Newsgroup Search Engines
Google Groups - groups.google.com/
Netscan Newsgroup Research - netscan.research.microsoft.com/
IRC Search
Search IRC - searchirc.com/whois
Maps
What is really at the “corporate headquarters” - a trailer park?
Expedia - www.expedia.co.uk/pub/agent.dll?qscr=mmfn
MapPoint - mappoint.msn.com/
MapQuest - www.mapquest.com/
Maps on Us - www.mapsonus.com/
Streetmap.co.uk - www.streetmap.co.uk/
MultiMap - www.multimap.com/ - aerial photos
TerraServer - terraserver-usa.com/ - aerial photos
Infospace - www.infospace.com/home/redirs_all.htm?pgtarg=mapdir
Google Maps - maps.google.com/
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Page last updated: 30-Jun-2008