Even twenty years ago it was possible to find a person only through the address bureau. It was necessary to fill out a special application and wait weeks for the result. Fortunately, now we live in a world of high technology. You can find a person in just a couple of minutes. All you need for this is an Internet connection. In this article we will look at how to find a person by last name and first name.
Our advantages
- a special bot analyzes information on the largest social networks (VK, Odnoklassniki, FaceBook, Instagram, and so on);
- lack of registration;
- all services are free;
- the site contains information about more than 11,454,980 users;
- many opportunities to search for a person;
- We provide the opportunity to quickly contact a person or view his files on the page.
Before you start looking for someone you've lost contact with or gone missing without a trace, try to gather as much information about them as possible.
Search by email
If you have email, it can be used to identify the owner of the mailbox. It’s not a fact that the information will be reliable, because the person could use the so-called “disposable box” to send the letter, but it’s definitely worth a try.
First of all, check if such an email is listed on Facebook. Go to the search page and paste the address into the bar. If the email was used to register a user on Facebook, then you will see his page in the search results.
If the method does not work, try logging into Facebook (if you don’t have a page on this social network, you will have to register first) and enter your e-mail in the “Look for friends” line on the main page.
You can calculate the country and city where the letter came from using the sender's IP address. This will help narrow your search. If you use Yandex mail, open the letter, expand the “More” section and select “Message Properties”.
You need the “Received: from” line, or rather, the IP address that is written in it. Copy it and use one of the services to determine your location by IP.
The result may not be accurate, but sometimes the service gets to the point. This will help determine at least the city, which is already good. Unfortunately, not all email services provide such information. For example, if the letter came from Yandex mail, then there will only be the IP address of the server, which is located in Moscow.
Thanks to us, you can find someone with whom:
Worked
Studied at school
Studied at university
Served
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
, enter all required parameters.
Search for people on VKontakte (you can search on VK without registration)
If you don’t have time to bother searching for the person you need through the official authorities mentioned above (there is no such urgent need) or you are sure that the opponent you are looking for will not give permission to provide information about him, then you can always try to search for him on your own via the Internet.
This is especially true when searching for young and middle-aged people who, with a high degree of probability, can appear somewhere on the global network (register under your real last name and first name, indicate a real mobile phone number, Email, car number and the like, for which it will be possible to hook them and pull them out into the light).
The greatest likelihood of finding a person by first and last name, by phone number (mobile or landline), by Email address and other similar things is, of course, in the most visited social network on the Runet, Vkontakte (the number of users registered in it is approaching the number of residents of Russia ). You can read the details on registration and communication in it in the article at the link provided (you may need these skills if the search is successful and you need to make contact with the desired opponent).
To search for people in Contact, there is a separate tool (the “People” tab from the top menu). But before you start, I still advise you to register and log into VK, because if the search is successful, you will want to quickly contact the person you found, and this can only be done after authorization in the service. The search itself in VKontakte can be conducted without registration, so it’s up to you.
If you still decide not to register on VKontakte, then simply go to the “people search” page and enter the last name and first name of the person you are looking for.
If you are already registered, then you will be taken to the same search tab for living subjects by clicking on the “People” top menu item. This does not change the essence - the tab will open the same, whether with registration or without it.
Please note that in the above screenshot, the query for my last name and first name returned only two results, which is great, because you won’t have to look through thousands of profiles or try to filter them. But this will not always be the case. For example, Contact was found by as many as one hundred thousand people using this name:
Here you can’t do without additional conditions and filters, otherwise you can spend years studying all the profiles (and even in vain, because among these Ivanovs there are not so many real people with such a surname, because “Ivan Ivanov” is something like the universal pseudonym Smith, which is constantly used in bourgeois films).
To narrow the search for the person you need in Contact, it will be enough to use the tools concentrated in the right column. For example, by indicating the country and city of residence, we will significantly reduce the circle of suspects. True, you should do this consciously, because if you make a mistake, you can filter out the very person you were looking for and ultimately not find it. For some types of surnames, it makes sense to explicitly indicate the gender of your counterpart.
When searching for classmates and fellow students, you can respectively indicate the school and university where they studied (indicating the class, department, year of graduation). This will again weed out unnecessary people from the list, provided that the person you are looking for indicated this information in their profile and did it correctly (did not make a mistake or did not intentionally distort it).
If you have information about the age of the person you are looking for (and it’s absolutely great if you know his birthday), then don’t use this either (the date of birth can be specified in the drop-down menu of the lowest “Advanced” filter) to narrow the search circle on VKontakte. Just in case, you can indicate the age in the range so as not to miss.
If you don’t find anything this way, you can try searching for people on the VKontakte website using Yandex or Google (read about how smart people search in Yandex and how even smarter people Google). To do this, it will be enough to enter the following request in their address bar:
site:vk.com First Name Last Name
True, this method will only work for those user profiles who, in the VK settings, have not blocked their data from being indexed by search engines. By default, everything is open, but especially suspicious people can close this information to search engines - you won’t find them this way (only directly from the VKontakte website).
If possible, increase the likelihood of a successful search by including your known acquaintances and relatives of this person in the search circle. One of them may appear on the network and you, by pulling this thread, will unravel the whole tangle. By the way, fill out your VKontakte page, because some people do not respond to messages from those whose page is empty (they don’t want to waste their time on empty chores).
Also keep in mind that there are also abandoned VK pages, so the mere fact of finding the desired subject does not mean that you will be able to successfully contact him. Please note that at the top of the personal page on VKontakte it is written when its owner last appeared here.
How to find a person by photo on VKontakte
How to do it? You can, of course, use photo search tools from Yandex or Google, then select the VK profile of the person you are looking for on the results page. But for this, the photo that is being searched must be added to the person’s profile, which is unlikely. However, there is another, more productive method.
You can simply leave a search request in a VK thematic group focused on searching for people in a specific city or region. To do this, use the corresponding item in the left menu to go to “Groups”, as a result of which on the page that opens you will see a line at the top where you can search for communities on the Vkontakte social network. You can type something like “I’m looking for you in Moscow” into this line and look at the result:
Go to the most popular communities and click on the “Suggest news” button:
Then fill out an application to find the person you need on VK (with a photo attached) and click on the “Suggest news” button. After the group moderators approve your news for publication, you will see it on the main page of this group, as well as many thousands of people who have subscribed to the news of this community.
All this significantly increases the likelihood of successfully finding people through VKontakte, even if you don’t know their first or last name, but only have a photo. Surely, in the comments to your application, someone will write a guess about who might be depicted in the photo (it all depends on the ratio of the number of subscribers the group has and the dense population of the region to which this group of people belongs). A similar group can be found for almost any city in the CIS countries, because VK is very unusually popular among the Russian-speaking audience.
To quickly find a person
Enter all known data (last name, first name, patronymic, year and field, name of educational institution or military unit)
Enter all known data (last name, first name, patronymic, year and field, name of educational institution or military unit)
Explore the options offered and find your person. The search results contain links to people's pages on social networks. On the profile pages there are links to social accounts with the accounts of the people you are looking for.
Searching for a person by full name in Russia via Yandex and Google
If you need to find a person in Russia, you can use Internet search engines like Yandex or Google.
In addition to your first, last and patronymic names, you can add any facts you know. Search engine algorithms work in such a way that any additional information increases the chances of finding a person.
There are also many other Internet resources on the Internet where you can find a person, for example www internet shpion ru. But you should be careful about the information you provide to these sites. There is a high risk of fraudulent activity on their part.
It is best to give preference to sites where a person could provide useful and real information about himself - job search sites, lists of company employees, platforms for posting advertisements, etc. Perhaps this way you will find the address where the person you are looking for lives.
On our service for searching people by last name and other data
All necessary functions are implemented
- You will be able to contact the person. In the user card you will see a page on VKontakte or another social network, write a message or add as a friend. Now you definitely won’t lose touch, arrange a meeting, and see someone you care about live.
- You do not need to register. All options and filters are available completely free of charge. You receive data posted on the Internet for free access and view it on one page - more convenient than searching for information on different sites.
- You will look at the media files uploaded by the person. The bot pulls up photos and videos that the user posted on VKontakte, YouTube, Odnoklassniki or other services - you can easily recognize the user and see how he has changed since your last meeting.
Search engines
How to find information about a specific person on the Internet? For these purposes, you can use one of the search engines. You just need to enter your first and last name into the browser and press the Enter button. If an object left any data about itself on the Internet (blog entry, comment, ad, etc.), then the search engine will definitely find it.
This method is not particularly effective if the object of your search has a common surname. In this case, the system will produce a huge number of results, and finding the right one will be extremely problematic. To narrow the search range, you can set query parameters. For example, activate a search for a specific region. This can be done through the menu called “Settings”.
How to find a person in Odnoklassniki without registration
If you don’t have a registered page on Odnoklassniki, and also don’t have the desire to create one, you can try using the Where You service. To do this you need:
- First, go to the website and enter the first and last name of the person you want to find in the search form.
- Secondly, after working through all the elements. The system will display a list of users matching the request from all existing social networks.
- Thirdly, there is also the ability to filter users according to the necessary parameters.
Precautionary measures
While searching for a person, you can come across various sites that offer to look at the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the secret archive of the military commissariat, passport data of all citizens, etc. You need to be wary of such services: usually you can’t find anything on them, but you can lose money or catch a virus.
You should be especially careful with sites that ask you to enter a phone number or send a free SMS. The message may be paid, and the phone number will end up on the spam mailing list. So don’t get too carried away with searching for people in “closed databases” - you can run into serious trouble.
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Other search methods
There is a high probability of finding a person by contacting a private detective. Such specialists usually have unspoken connections with the police or other authorities with access to citizen databases.
The cost of a detective's services depends on the complexity of the search. If the task is to find out a person’s contacts based on their full name and date of birth, then you can do it within a small amount. When the data is less specific, for example, the client provided only his last name and approximate age, then the task will be much more difficult and the cost of services will increase.
Knowing the past place of residence of the wanted person, it is worth trying to get the neighbors to talk. They will tell you a lot of useful things. After all, when many people move, they often tell their neighbors where they are going.
It is unlikely that you will be able to find out the exact address. But the interlocutors can easily tell you the city and the street. Ideally, a pensioner who loves to talk will tell you where her former neighbor worked.
We are looking for a person knowing only his last name
I would like to start with the simplest thing possible - searching for a person knowing his last name. Of course, in this case, in a city with a population of 1 million people, for example, there may be a thousand or even twenty Ivanovs. In this case, we use all the methods available to us:
- Organic search through search engines
- Analysis and filtering of all people through social networks
- We analyze educational institutions in which a person could study
A surname is a fairly powerful tool that allows you to identify a person with high probability. Let's turn to social networks and enter it, for example, on VKontakte. We will have a large list with search results. Then start filtering the already found people. Set your approximate age and gender. Perhaps you know some other information.
Perhaps you know the person's friends with whom he may be acquainted. Try searching for it through them. Even if your profile is closed, you can always use archived pages through special sites.
The surname can be entered in public pages dedicated to city schools. For example, we go to the public page of school No. 37, enter the last name and look at the result. Let's look at this search method below.
How to find a person in classmates by photo
Using the Google and Yandex search engines, you can find not only information using text, but also using pictures. They act as a prototype from which photos with a similar image are selected.
Based on the above, this function is applicable to searching for people in search engines. To do this, go to the “pictures” section of the search engine and activate the search by photos. For example, in Yandex it is depicted as a camera.
The next step is to click on the “Select a file” button and attach it from your computer, or left-click the file and drag it into the field to add.
When the system processes all possible options, sites where a similar photo was used will appear on the screen.
The search may not return a single result; this may mean that there is not a single photo on the user’s page in Odnoklassniki or he is simply not registered there.
Search by phone number
If you have a phone number, the easiest way to find a person is to call that number. If you doubt that this is a toll-free number, look for it through search engines before calling. If this is some kind of organization or scammers, then there is a chance that the number has already been “lit up”, and you will find interesting reviews about it.
In addition, to search by phone number, you can use special services provided by mobile operators. For example, MTS Locator helps determine the location of MTS, Megafon and Beeline subscribers. The only drawback of such services is the need to obtain permission from the person you are looking for. It will not be possible to peek unnoticed: a person must allow their movements to be tracked.
