What is a “reverse email search”?

Everyone knows how to do a reverse phone number search- just enter a mysterious number off your caller id into the google search bar and press enter. You’ll know who called you in seconds, especially if it’s a business phone number. But with email, it’s a bit trickier. There is no central listing of email addresses like phone numbers are listed in a phone book. When you sign up for a phone number and service, you must supply verifiable personal information like your social security number. But with email, you don’t have to provide a full name at all, let alone your real name. Even honest people who have no intention of misusing their email account often sign up for accounts using only their initials or a nickname for security reasons.

A Reverse email search can be a challenging task.

This is what makes it so difficult to run a reverse email search on your own. You can try typing the email address into Google or another search engine, but unless the person has listed their complete email address on a web page or site, you are unlikely to get any useful information. There are free email search websites that can look up a specific person’s email address or look up who owns an email address, but most of the time you’re not going to get a lot of valuable information from a free search. Read the rest of this entry

It’s unsettling – the truth about crime… The likelihood that you or someone you love will, within the next 12 months, become a victim of crime is frighteningly high.

If you live in the US, you’ve got a 1 in 5 chance of becoming a crime victim in the next 12 months. In the UK and much of Europe, the rate is 1 in 4 or worse. Australia or New Zealand? Nearly one out of every 3 people will be victimized within a year. These facts come from respected research publisher, Nationmaster.com.

The facts are unavoidable. You or someone close to you will likely soon be the target of a robbery, burglary, car theft, even a physical attack or sexual assault.

And there’s more unsettling news. The numbers don’t begin to account for all the fraud, scams and computer crimes the modern underworld throws at us every day. No one even knows the full extent of the problem. Add in the estimates, though, and the likelihood that you’ll be victimized in the next year shoots up past fifty-fifty.

Unfortunately, law enforcement can’t help until after the crime’s been committed. Read the rest of this entry