X-Ray Team listened to your feature recommendations and decided to add the most requested one: a Reverse Username Search service, we named it a Username Check. Find out how and why you should use this tool for your OSINT research down below.
What Is a Reverse Username Search Tool?
It’s an instrument that allows you to find a person’s real identity and/or digital footprint using a username as a search channel. Thus, you can try to investigate even an anonymous person online.
How Can You Start Using an X-Ray Username Check?
One Username Check Search costs one Basic Credit. We recommend getting a Subscription Plan with unlimited Basic Credits if you need to make a lot of Reverse Username Search queries.
You can start a Username Check easily:
- Log in to X-Ray Contact and go to the “Username Check.”
- Type in or paste a username in a search bar.
- If the search is successful, you will get a Person Profile with a possible name of the user, social media account links and a list of the online services they may use.
What Is the Usefulness of a Username Check?
Reverse username search is a must-have tool for ongoing social media investigations, especially when you need to revisit findings about a person regularly. Here are only some scenarios when a Reverse Username Search comes in handy:
- Employment Screening. Companies can use Reverse Username Searches to gather information about a potential hire’s online behavior and public persona.
- Media Investigations. Journalists can benefit from a Username Check when they compile a personal profile for an exposé.
- Investigating Fraud. You can expose the identities of the culprits with a Username Check.
- Online Dating. Users can verify the authenticity of potential matches on dating platforms by checking their online history and activity.
Do Username Check Conditions Differ From Other X-Ray Search Types?
Since people expand their social media footprint all the time, we add new data to enhance our Reverse Username Search more regularly compared to our Socials, Name, Email, Phone and Image Searches. That’s why we don’t store the Person Profiles results you receive after searching with a Username Check tool.