How to find a person using their passport on the Internet in 2021: methods

Search for a person using a Russian passport

Millions of people have access to other people's personal data. This category includes employers, doctors, teachers and more. But none of them has the right to use PD at their own discretion and try to obtain additional information about a person from it. Such actions are classified as illegal. With the exception of situations where a search using passport data is caused by protecting the interests of both parties.

The following are considered legal grounds for obtaining additional information:

Attempts to find a person who has lost his passport;
Searching for a close relative or friend whose connection has been severed - the cause could be wars, natural migration or natural disasters;
Verifying the authenticity of an identity card - this is especially important when making transactions of a different nature (for example, when selling an apartment or before moving in new tenants);
Determining reliability - such actions are relevant when you need to check a business partner, future spouse, borrower, and so on;
The need to find out the place of stay of a particular person in a certain period of time;
Search for a fraudster, a persistent non-payer of alimony or a person who has violated the law on other counts.

It is important that a person can run absolutely any search about himself using passport data, excluding the purchase of special databases (in this case, both the buyer and the seller are legally responsible).

12.An example of searching for a person on the network.

Let's take this situation as an example. You have a friend who once had a page on Odnoklassniki. But now this page is abandoned, no one visits it or it has been completely deleted. Where to start your search?

First, we try searching by first and last name on social networks, but there are so many options that there is no point in browsing through them. Additional information is needed to filter the sample, but it is not available yet.

We move on to searching for this person’s acquaintances, so that through them we can reach the wanted person. The archive.org service (Wayback Machine section) will help us here. We drive into it an old page from Vkontakte.ru (or another social network) and look at the archive of page changes. We definitely need to find the nickname or full name of an acquaintance or friend of the wanted person.

How to find a person on the Internet.

Suppose a search on archive.org did not produce results, Yandex and Google did not either.

Think about what else you can get hold of in order to reach your friend’s acquaintances. The search area can be different: work, publishing articles, selling an apartment, car, recreation, repairs, sports, hobbies. This person may have friends, acquaintances, work or business colleagues everywhere.

Let's say you remember that a couple of years ago, the disappeared person shared with you a link to the publication of his classmate. Follow this link. Next, we go to the author’s account, but we only see his nickname. We write a letter to the author of the article, but he does not respond to the message. We contact his friends from the forum, but they cannot or refuse to help.

Next, we work with the nickname of the author of the article. We enter the nickname in the services namechk.com, Pipl.com and login.stop-list.info. Here we were lucky, we found a name associated with this nickname.

Now, by entering nickname and First Name (full name) of a person in the Yandex (Google) search, we find more publications of this person’s articles on the Internet.

Now it's much easier. We analyze these sites, publications and contact the people mentioned on these pages. One of the people gives us a link to the author’s page on the social network. We write to the author of the article and find out from him about your friend, his contacts or social accounts. networks.

Obtaining information: features and nuances

To obtain the most complete information, it is necessary to know as much of the person’s passport data as possible. If only part of them is known, then the first priority will be to find the missing information. Otherwise, none of the known legal methods will produce results. The most difficult thing is in cases where the only known information is a person’s last name, first name, patronymic and date of birth—it’s not possible to find passport data for free.

To legally find a citizen of the Russian Federation using a passport or obtain information about him, you will need the following PD:

FULL NAME. – they are necessary, but require additions, since there is a high chance of stumbling upon a person’s namesake or not finding information at all due to a change in his first or last name (this is completely legal);
Series and number of the identity card - these numbers are unique and a compelling reason is required for their disclosure (if it exists, then after paying the state fee and application, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will provide the necessary information);
Registration - when you add this information to those already indicated above, the chances of finding a person increase by 2 times;
Date and place of birth - they refer to clarifying information and help exclude namesakes of the person being sought from the search area.

The easiest way to find a person is if you have his passport with all the above information. But in other cases, when there is fragmentary information, the search may be successful.

If passport data is available, data of a different nature is available to the seeking party. They will be discussed below.

Verification of an individual using a passport

According to the data included in an individual’s identity card, they most often find out:

TIN;
Is an IP open for a person?
Authenticity of the passport.

To find out the INN, you will need to go to the resource https://service.nalog.ru/inn-my.do and enter in the form:

FULL NAME.;
Date of birth;
Document series;
Document Number;
Date of issue of the identity card.

After clicking on the “Check” label, the individual taxpayer number will appear on the screen.

If you “read” it correctly, you can find out important information:

The first 2 digits indicate a subject of the Russian Federation;
The next 2 digits are the number of the tax service to which the person is assigned;
Another 6 digits represent the tax record of the person being sought.

Information about the presence or absence of individual entrepreneur status is extremely important when making transactions. You can get them for free on the page egrul.nalog.ru.

In the form there is a choice of search criteria:

By individual tax number or OGRNIP;
By last name, first name, patronymic and region of residence.

After entering the data from the list, complete information about the individual entrepreneur appears:

OGRNIP;
Last name, first name and patronymic;
Registration authority number;
Occupation;
Date of registration as an individual entrepreneur;
The date of closure of the individual entrepreneur (if its activities are terminated).

Litigation

In many situations, it is important to know whether a person is bound by any restrictions imposed by court decisions. Such information, as well as data on the search for suspicions of committing crimes, can also be obtained using a passport.

To make sure that a person is clean before the law, you need to go to www.fssprus.ru.

In the form that appears, enter:

Last name, first name and patronymic;
Region.

If after clicking on “Search” the information does not appear, then the person of interest is not wanted. But to be completely sure, you can enter the advanced search. In this case, data for all regions will appear on the screen.

The search for enforcement proceedings is carried out in a similar way on the resource https://www.fssprus.ru/iss/ip_search. You can also do regular and advanced checks on the search page.

You can also check a person using the database of enforcement proceedings. It is located at www.fssprus.ru. The search is carried out as follows:

Choice between an individual or a legal entity;
Entering a region;
Record full name;
Entering your date of birth.

The last point is optional, but it will make it easier to find the information you need.

If one or more enforcement proceedings have been opened against the person in question, they will appear on the screen indicating the date of the court decision and the name of the bailiff involved in this case.

Using passport data, it is also possible to find out about the launch of bankruptcy proceedings. This is done through bankrot.fedresurs.ru. On the site you need to select the shortcuts sequentially:

"Search for debtors";
"Advanced Search";
"Individuals".

Then enter into the columns:

FULL NAME.;
Region.

If after clicking on “Search” information appears, then the person has received bankrupt status. By additionally clicking on the entry, all information on the case will appear.

Using passport data, you can find out whether a person is currently suing someone. It is more convenient to search for such information through sudrf.ru. After going to the website, you need to select the court and in the “Judicial Proceedings” section enter the surname of the person you are looking for.

Right to be forgotten

When you start searching for a person using a passport, you need to take into account that he could exercise the right to be forgotten. Not everyone is aware of it, although it has been operating in Russia for 3 years.

At its core, the law of oblivion allows citizens to remove information about themselves from all search engines. To be more precise, it is not the information itself that is deleted, but links to it. Thus, when you enter the name of a person who has exercised this right into a search engine, links to pages mentioning him will not appear.

Virtual espionage or How to find out everything about a person

Any person who leads a more or less active life on the Internet leaves his traces on it in one way or another. And armed with patience and the ability to use search engines correctly, you can collect a lot of interesting information about it. The basic approach here is this: you need to carefully check every new lead that you can find. Let's say, when searching by Email, we find a profile on the forum, and do a search by login and all profile contacts. It should also be remembered that the Internet as a whole is an unreliable store of information, so it is recommended to create a file for each person in which to save all the information found in the form of a screenshot, link and estimated reliability rating. Here are some recommendations for different inputs.

Search by EMail

First, let's try to enter the address into the search query as is, only using quotes to find an exact match (for example, “ [email protected] ”). You need to search not only in the search engine you are used to, but also in others, that is, Yandex, Google, Mail.Ru, Bing, Yahoo (by the way, this also applies to any other searches, which will be discussed later) . In most cases, nothing is found this way, but there are exceptions when a person indicated his EMail somewhere in plain text. If nothing is found, we try a different approach: we put in quotes only the part of EMail before the @ symbol, and write the second part with a space after the quotes. For example, “xxxxpro” mail.ru. This will allow you to find the address where it is written in the form “xxxxpro (at) mail.ru” or “xxxxpro dog mail.ru”.

Among what we find, we first of all pay attention to forums and classifieds sites. On forums, first of all, we pay attention to the login under which a person is registered (although if everything goes well, you can extract a lot of other information); on classifieds sites you can often find out a name (even without a surname) and phone number. We record all this information, it will be useful when searching by logins.

The next step is to search by EMail in instant messengers that support this feature. It may be possible to find out the login by which you can do a further search or other data - age, offline name.

If the EMail address belongs to the domains mail.ru, bk.ru, list.ru and inbox.ru, it makes sense to check whether this user has My World (a profile on the Mail.Ru social network), and whether he participates in Replies@ Mail.Ru. To do this, you need to go to addresses like my.mail.ru/domain/login, and otvety.mail.ru/domain/login where the domain is mail, inbox, bk, list (without .ru), and the login is part of EMail before @ symbol. In “My World” you can find photos of the user, as well as his interests and contacts; in Answers you can assess the degree of his personal adequacy, individual communication characteristics and how knowledgeable he is about certain topics.

You can also find out a lot of interesting things at addresses in the yandex.ru or narod.ru zone. First, you should go to the address login.narod.ru; if the user once created a personal website, he could easily remain at this address. Secondly, you should check Yandex.Photos at the link fotki.yandex.ru/users/login, and the social network My Circle: https://moikrug.ru/login. In addition, if a user has been on the Internet for a long time, it makes sense to go to web.archive.org and look at an address like login.ya.ru, it is quite possible that you will be able to see a saved copy of his blog (unfortunately, the Ya.Ru system itself was closed a few years ago).

Search by mobile phone number

If you only know a mobile phone number, it makes sense to search for it. You should enter the number into the search in quotes (otherwise there will be a lot of information garbage), and try all possible spelling options for the number: “+7 999 1234567”, “+7”, “+7”, “79991234567”, “+7 (999) 1234567", "89991234567", "8 999 1234567", etc.

Pay special attention to ad sites, you can often find out additional information on them: offline name and approximate place of residence, and in some cases EMail, which can be used to search as described above.

UPD : You can also search by phone number on Facebook and Skype. (Thanks to Gram .)

Search by logins

If we managed to find out one or more logins under which a person registers in various services (for example, Skype), it makes sense to check them as well. We just enter them into search engines, as usual, in quotes. If there is too much information noise in the search results (for example, the user named himself by the name of a famous movie character), you can try searching with clarifying words: user “login”, profile “login”, participant “login”, player “login”, page “login” , forum "login". In search results, we first of all pay attention to forums, and on forums - to the number of posts a user has. Our task is to detect those on which the user wrote quite a lot. On such forums, it makes sense to look at the user’s profile (often there may be additional contacts for which you can make an additional search) and a list of all his messages, which will allow you to determine the characteristics of his communication style, range of interests, level of knowledge and adequacy. Please note that on many forums the profile is not available for guests and you will have to register. In addition, remember that searching by logins is initially unreliable, sometimes there are very unexpected matches, so before deciding that the profile found on the forum is the profile of the user you are looking for, you should check it for some other known characteristics (features of communication style, interests, place of residence, date of birth, etc.) We also pay attention to ad sites, where you can still find an EMail or phone number.

If you know the ICQ UIN, it makes sense to do all of the above with it.

If a user uses the same login in many places, and the login itself is quite unique, you can try to find additional information at random, that is, try going to the addresses vk.com/login, login.livejournal.com, diary.ru /~login, fotki.yandex.ru/users/login, login.blogspot.com, instagram.com/login. Note: if the login contains spaces, then before using the random method they must be replaced with the symbols - or _. With a certain amount of luck, you can find a personal blog or social network profile this way, even if they are closed to search engines.

You can also use the part of EMail before the @ symbol as a search login.

For dating sites, you can use the search for a specific site. To do this, enter site:site_address “login” in Google or Yandex (address without https:// and www). For example, site:fotostrana.ru “4X_Pro”.

Search by first and last name

Finding a person by first and last name alone is a very difficult task (unless both the first and last names are very rare). In most cases, additional information will be required, and the following options are possible:

if you know your university, date of birth, or age and place of residence, then use the usual search on general social networks: VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook.
if the type of activity or place of work is known, then it is better to start the search with professional social networks: Professionals.Ru, LinkedIn or specialized social networks of the relevant industry, if available. It also makes sense to search for the page/group of the relevant organization on social networks and try to find it among the group members.
If you know a person’s appearance, you can do an image search in Google or Yandex. This will allow you to find his photographs, and from them you will be able to access additional information on the sites where these photographs are located.

In addition, to search by people, you can use the specialized Yandex service: people.yandex.ru. Please note that in the search settings you can specify various social networks, and during the search process it is advisable to view all available ones. However, as practice has shown, this service does not find everything, and it makes sense to also use a regular search on the most popular blog resources, making queries like site:*.livejournal.com first name last name, site:*.liveinternet.ru first name last name, site :*.diary.ru, etc.

Search by photo and avatar

If a user has a habit of using the same avatar and photo everywhere, you can search for it. To do this, go to Google image search (or the corresponding Yandex search), click there search by image URL and indicate the address of the avatar on any forum. We do the same with photography. Don't forget to look at the results in other resolutions. Such a search can help to find sites on which this user is present with a different name, and thereby find out, at a minimum, additional logins.

UPD

: also, as it turned out, there is a special service search4faces.com, which allows you to upload a photo and use it to search among avatars on the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki.

Searching for information in a person’s environment

The saying “tell me who your friend is and I’ll tell you who you are” has existed since ancient times, and it exists for good reason. Studying a list of contacts can provide a lot of information about a person, in particular, his interests, and communication habits, as well as where and with whom he spends time. The most reliable method of collecting such information is to manually go through all the profiles of his friends, looking through their walls and photos to find comments from the person you are looking for or photos with him. However, if the person we are collecting information about has added several hundred or even thousands of people as friends, this will not be easy to do. In this case, special applications will help us select those whose profiles are worth starting the search with:

VK LikeChecker - searches for whom a given person has liked among his friends (or contacts from a specified list) over the past few days. There is a version for Android (search on Google Play by name) and for Windows.
ZebraBoss is a service that tracks changes in your friends list. By viewing the profiles of added or removed users, you can find out how a person decides whether to add someone or not.

If the subject you are studying is among your friends, then it makes sense to use the following applications:

Like meter — counting the number of likes on a user’s page. You should start your search among those who like the most actively.
Hierarchy of needs - allows you to look at a person’s value system if he has passed the appropriate test. Also contains additional modules, such as a political opinion test.

If a user can view photos in which they are tagged, they should also look at everyone who has such photos on their profiles. Perhaps you will be able to find more photographs or comments from this person there.

Also try making a request like site:vk.com “first name last name” (first name last name, naturally, those indicated on VKontakte, for example, site:vk.com “XPro Non-Celebrating”) - this will allow you to find statements of this person in groups and on other people’s pages walls. Note: In active groups, posts may move to the bottom, so if you are on a page and don't see a user's post, try scrolling down the page to load older posts.

Social engineering

All of the measures described above were passive information collection. But you can also use active methods of collecting it - social engineering. Attention! THE USE OF THE METHODS DESCRIBED BELOW IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS : firstly, it will alert the subject being studied, and secondly, it may lead to legal liability.

Social engineering can be divided into three types:

Provocative letter. You register a new mailbox and write from it to the person you are studying a letter of such content to which he is highly likely to respond (this could be a letter with some kind of provocative and insulting statement for him, or, say, a request for help or an offer cooperation). If everything goes well, you will receive a response from him that will give you an idea of his communication style. In some cases, you can find out additional information from the signature of the letter, for example, place of work, position, mobile phone, which can then be used to search using the methods described above.
Creating a virtual. A virtual is a completely fictitious person, on whose behalf you come into contact with the subject being studied in order to find out the desired information. Here are some guidelines for creating one. Create a virtual at least a month before the first contact and throughout this month maintain some kind of activity on his page, at least by simple reposts of messages from popular groups. Come up with interests for your virtual person so that they partially overlap with the interests of the person you are studying, and join groups that correspond to these interests. Start contacting him not through personal messages, but in one of these groups, or, in extreme cases, on his wall.
Creating a fake page. Fake is an attempt to impersonate another person. In many cases, the best candidate for this role is a former classmate from another group (if the person has already graduated from college or university) or a student from a parallel class at the same school, since this is a ready reason for communication and questions about current life. Find such a person, make sure that the subject under study does not communicate with him (there are no likes or comments on the wall), create a profile with the same first and last name, copy all available information, and if there are reposts on the wall from any groups and communities, It would be advisable to make the same ones for yourself. Also try to collect as much information as possible about your studies: who was the dean and head of the course, find out the most memorable teachers, where the institute “net” was located, etc.

Points 2 and 3 can be combined: first, enter into communication on behalf of a virtual person with one of the subject’s classmates, and then create a fake of this classmate.

Countermeasures

How can you avoid having information about you collected in this way? It’s quite simple: you need to make several sets of an EMail box, a SIM card and a social network profile, and clearly differentiate which of them will be used for what purposes. In particular, I can recommend the following division:

1 set - for those who know the name. Use this EMail and social network profile to communicate with friends in the offline world: former classmates, work colleagues, relatives, etc. In this profile, it is advisable to make all information available only to friends, leaving only one or two very low-quality photographs, full name and place of work/study publicly available so that you can be recognized. Accordingly, add as friends only those you know personally in the offline world. Do not use this kit for any public activity such as blogging.

2 set. The main profile for Network communication. Come up with a Network name for yourself, make a corresponding EMail and social network profile, and use it for any public activity: registering on forums, communities and communication in groups, blogging. In it you can indicate your interests, worldview, etc. as openly as possible, but you should not provide any real data: full name, place of study, work, residence, telephone number. If you have several interest groups, and for some reason you do not want people you know to overlap, you can make several such profiles.

Set 3 - for casual connections. Use this EMail and phone number if you buy or sell something through an ad or in an online store, order some one-time services, and other similar actions.

4 set (if necessary) - for communication in obviously dubious places, for example, dating sites or hacker forums. Here it is advisable to take additional precautions: firstly, use different logins for different sites, and secondly, dilute information about yourself with false information. And of course, the passwords used for each set must be different.

Finally, I note that despite all the measures described above, the most reliable way to protect yourself from this is to become the elusive Joe, that is, to lead such a lifestyle that no one has the desire to collect information about you with hostile intentions.

Ways to obtain information

In addition to those already described, there are other ways to find a person and get the necessary information about him.

Through online services

Modern technologies provide ample opportunities in searching for a person. Only the most common ones will be described below:

Search engines - if a person actively uses the Internet, then after entering all the data about him into the Yandex or Google search engines, the systems will provide the most complete information;
Search by photo through the most popular systems - the search engines already mentioned above will help you find a person by his photo, analyzing millions of pictures in a couple of seconds;
Findface - for now this application searches for people using photos only on the VKontakte network, but an update is planned soon that will give access to other resources;
Portal "Government Services".

The last method requires some explanation. To search for a person you need:

Go to your personal page;
In the list;
Fill out the form fields.

The response to the request comes within a month.

In government

A request for information on a particular person can be sent to the Main Directorate for Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The application shall indicate:

Details of the person making the request;
Passport details of the person you are looking for;
Reason for seeking information (here it is recommended to be as detailed as possible);
Consent to provide your data for review by the person you want to find;
Date of;
Signature.

It is important to be prepared for the fact that law enforcement agencies may not respond to a request. But if approved, you will have to wait about 30 days.

Appeals to the passport office in this case are fruitless, since the request will be forwarded to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

In addition to the methods already described, some Russians search for a person using passport data through detective agencies. After concluding an agreement and paying for the detective’s services, they receive the necessary information on the person they are interested in in the shortest possible time without any effort on their part.

6.If the nickname is known.

Very often, the email address does not contain a real last name and first name () but a nickname like If this is the case, then you need to search for a person using the nickname marusyi2000 or marusyi. Find out how to do this below.

And vice versa, knowing the nickname, for example marusyi2000, you can add the name of the mail domain to it and send a letter to this address: , , etc. Maybe you'll get lucky and the letter will reach the right recipient.

Search engines Google and Yandex.

Many people write their nickname on their social media pages along with their real first and last name. How to search by nickname in search engines? Just enter your nickname in Google, Yandex, VK, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, Mail.ru, Odnoklassniki and see the results. If there are a lot of options for this nickname, then you will need additional information in order to weed out unnecessary options. It would be good to know the description of the appearance in order to determine the correct account.

How to find a person on Skype and add him to your contact list.

And one more tip: in Yandex, to search in vk.com, you must enter the following code into the request: “site:vk.com inurl:nick” (where nickname is the nickname of the person you are looking for. Instead of vk.com, you can write another site.).

Forums.

If search engines using the nickname you entered lead you to the forums, then here you need to immediately go to the profile of a user registered on the forum with a similar nickname, and look at his city of residence, phone number or email address. After analyzing this information, you can narrow your search. Here on the forum you can use the form to send messages, for private communication or for public communication. It’s also worth looking at a person’s list of friends and talking to them. They can tell you the person's real name, address or phone number.

Skype.

It has been noticed that people prefer to use the same login or nickname to log into different Internet services. Knowing the nickname, you can search for a person on Skype. Likewise, go to Skype and enter his nickname in the search. There will most likely be a lot of results. But if, at the previous stages of the search, you received information about your city of residence, or have a photo, full name, then you can quickly get in touch with this Skype user. If there is no such data yet, then return to the search results later.

Thanks to us, you can find someone with whom:

Worked

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To search our resources, enter the available information in the appropriate fields. If you want to view the entire database, you must enter at least one search criterion. After completing the search, you can immediately start communicating with someone you really missed and see how he has changed. To find a person by last name, first name, patronymic and year of birth for free

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How to find out a person’s passport details by full name

You can find out the series and number of a passport by last name in two ways: with the help of government agencies and detective agencies. The first option includes the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and organizations with which the desired citizen has ever collaborated. The request is accepted on the State Services website or by visiting the department in person.

Regardless of the method by which the request is submitted, in order to obtain detailed information about a citizen, his personal consent is required (with the exception of offenders and persecuted persons). The conclusion follows from this: it is possible to obtain personal data about someone only after notifying him that he is wanted.

Anyone who intends to authenticate a person's passport on their own using the Internet needs to be extremely careful. To date, there are no officially confirmed sources for the disclosure of personal data of citizens, except for the State Services portal and the Ministry of Internal Affairs resource. Some detective agencies have websites that can be used to search for missing people. But before you find out the passport number by last name online, it is recommended to check the legality of the organization’s activities.

The same advice can be followed by those who are interested in how to find their passport on the Internet. Using unverified sources is fraught with negative consequences:

the spread of viruses on a PC (including those that collect the user’s personal data);
receiving false information;
emptying the account without providing the service (if it was paid).

Moreover, the user may be prosecuted for illegally searching for passport data.

Request to the Main Department of Migration Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

To find out the registration address using passport data through the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you need to follow the algorithm of actions:

Open the website and click on the “Activities” tab.
Select “Public Services” from the drop-down menu and you will be taken to a page with a list of services provided by various departments.
In the section you need to open the category “Address and reference information” - “Receiving services online”.

You will be redirected to the user's account. In the future, an indication of the available details and information about the person must be requested from it. Using a similar method, you can find out the date of issue of your passport by document number.