Blog / Tag

#verification

Everything tagged verification.

2articles

Category

Tags

#verification#account age#account creation date#fake accounts#guide#impersonation#instagram#osint#username osint#username search

2 articles matching #verification

Guides10 min

How to Find When an Account Was Created, and Why the Date Matters

Where GitHub, X, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Discord and TikTok publish an account's creation date, how precise each one is, and how to read those dates as evidence, with public cybercrime cases showing accounts opened before a case, during it, and after the name went public.

Guides9 min

Is This Instagram Account Fake: 9 Checks You Can Run With Public Data

No single field settles whether an Instagram account is fake. Nine checks on platform-assigned data do: numeric id age, join date, former usernames, banned state by id, picture and handle reuse across 770 platforms, bio link chains, follower count vs posts, and breach hits on a linked email.