Before You Go Viral Checklist

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Above is where you can download the “Before You Go Viral” Checklist to make sure you’re taking privacy percussions for when YOU DO go viral, because it’s definitely going to happen one day and with virality comes weirdos having parasocial relationships with you and some trying to figure out more about you, so be prepared. I will be talking about a lot of this stuff in detail in this newsletter.

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Make Sure You Check This

This is for everyone that uses Telegram out there, I wanted to make a fast tutorial about this particular setting because if it’s not set right, your phone number can be exposed on Telegram and we know there’s a lot of weirdos and weird stuff that goes on via Telegram and it’s NOT a place I would want my phone number out. Let’s get into it.

Make Sure “Nobody” Can See Your Number

To do that, open Telegram and go to Settings and then “Privacy And Security”

Then tap “Phone Number”

And make sure your settings are just like mine here

It means that absolutely no one can see your phone number and the only people who can find you by your phone number are the people in your contacts, I’ll show you how to change that also if you don’t want that either.

If You Don’t Want Your Contacts Seeing

You would go back to the privacy and security page (however you normally go back on your particular phone. Mine I just swipe right) and go all the way down until you see contacts.

You would hit “Delete Synced Contacts” and I went the extra step myself and toggled off “Sync Contacts” and “Suggest Frequent Contacts”

Conclusion

And that’s it! Get yours exactly like that and people won’t be able to find you by username. They can still look up your username though, so make sure that you use a username that’s completely different from your regular usernames when using Telegram. If you have a separate pseudonym, use that.

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For my California peeps

I know I wrote an article about this already, but I wanted to make a video tutorial for the peeps who prefer a video. If you’re not in California, share with someone who is so they can get their information off these damn data brokers

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Why Data Brokers Will Cry August 1st

Well, this is beautiful. Californians will be able to have their data completely deleted from Data Brokers on August 1st thanks to The Delete Act, they’re also calling it “DROP”.

According to Sen. Josh Becker, it allows California residents to delete their personal information en masse with one request. You don’t have to manually do it yourself (like what I teach here) or have a company like DeleteMe do it for you or have ChatGPT do it for you (which I will eventually show you how to do), the DROP act will do it for you for free.

Any Data Broker who refuses to comply with this bill will be subject to heavy fines; here is the other amazing part: when you submit the request, they’re also required to delete any information they collect after 45 days. I guess that can also be a downside because they’re still collecting data even after you request it be deleted, but they have to delete it every 45 days

Source: DROP for data brokers - privacy.ca.gov

How To Take Advantage Of It

Sadly, this is only for California residents, but if you are a resident of California, you can simply go HERE and verify that you’re a California resident, sadly I’m not (yet). Once that is done, you make an account and send the request and you’re good August 1st.

For Non-California Residents

Sadly, we don’t have anything like that yet, so if you want to remove yourself from Data Brokers, I have a bunch of free, manual ways on my Substack that you can try and there’s also DeleteME which you can try here.

My Full Review On DeleteMe

I also have a book on creating an entirely new pseudonym on the internet which is good for after your data is deleted to create new, fake data under a fake name. Great for anyone, especially if you’re a content creator

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I Thought I Was Doing a Good Job

I seriously did! I seriously thought that I was doing a pretty good job at keeping my information off of these data brokers, but it turns out I wasn’t. I’ve never even HEARD of the majority of the sites and a lot of them didn’t show up on Google when I researched myself and these sites were exposing my name, location, ETC

Transparency

Now, I want to be 100% transparent, this is a service I used called DeleteMe and there will be an affiliate link in this article. You can get it using my link if you want to or not, but I will have a discount code at the end of the article that they gave to me specifically since I became friendly with the manager. Again, THIS IS NOTHING THAT YOU CAN’T DO YOURSELF. You can literally look at my report, go to those sites yourself and request your own removals, but this automates the process and I’ll talk more about that if you keep reading but I genuinely like this service for what it’s already done

Take A Look at This Report

These are just some of the many sites that DeleteMe found my information on, and everything beyond this is labeled “clean”, so I guess I did a semi good job, but it’s so interesting. I’ve only been to California once, but I’ve never been to Florida. Why am I on “Phone Lookup Florida”? I’ve never heard of “SearchSystems.net”, so this has been very educational for me as well as shocking.

Thankfully, all of these sites are going through the removal process, some of them are removed instantly and some within a couple of days, and they will send me new reports monthly with stuff they’ve removed or in the process of removing.

Another cool thing is that I have a privacy advisor that I can talk to and make requests to if I have a hard time getting my information off of certain data brokers which I WILL be utilizing for sites like VoteRef who gave me an issue before when I tried to remove my data.

Some Nice Little Privacy Tools

I already have Email Masking with someone else, but I love the fact they have phone masking and card masking is coming soon. This means I don’t have to use Hushed for my phone numbers or Privacy.com for my cards. I will be testing these out soon and let you know how it goes.

What If DeleteMe Gets Hacked?

That’s what I asked myself because you do have to give a lot of personal information to them in order for them to go out and remove it. Then I read over their Security page (which you can read HERE) and found out that they are AICPA SOC 2 Type 2 compliant

And they do use high level 256-bit AES and TLS 1.2 encryption which is considered some of the best encryption used by many banks and financial institutions. I’d really suggest reading their Security page before you purchase if you decide to; it gave me peace of mind.

Conclusion (and how to get it)

Overall, I like it. I stalk myself all the time; that’s how I was able to remove so much of my information on my own; you can also, but even me who regularly checks my digital footprint, I didn’t know I was on SO MANY other sites cause some of them I haven’t heard of or didn’t show up in search during the process. So, if you’re a content creator (spicy or mild) or someone who just cares about your privacy and you want to have all of this automated for you, check them out.

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Introduction

We all know that Discord is having a lot of “Discord” (I’ve always wanted to say that) with their users right now since they decided to pretty much throw our privacy away with the whole age verification thing. Sorry, but I’m NOT submitting my facial I.D to a website that’s been hacked a plethora of times and many of you won’t either. But I think I MAY have found an alternative that’s better? Pretty decent privacy policy, but

Kloak.App

So, this website called “Kloak” was recommended by youtuber CasualHeroes; I checked it out and I like what I’ve seen so far! You don’t have to register an email, a password or anything, you just need a username and a secret key which they provide.

I agreed to their terms and conditions and I was in. So, let’s talk about their terms and conditions and what I like and don’t like

Their Privacy Policy

So, they do keep your messages and content until it’s deleted. If you type a message for example, it’s there so it can be read by whomever you’re typing it to, etc. But when you delete it, it is permanently deleted. I was afraid that there was no end-to-end encryption and right now, there isn’t. I’m glad to see that encryption will be added on Feb 17th.

Glad to see they will be rolling that out because that would've been a huge red flag. I was searching through the announcements hoping I would find this since it’s not on their privacy policy yet.

I also love this:

So many of these companies have in their privacy policies “If you want your data permanently deleted, please contact us”. Nope. I want it deleted the minute I delete my account; I don’t want to have to message someone to have my data deleted after I delete my account, so I appreciate this.

Something I want them to change is the fact that messages are stored until you delete them. Even when you delete your account, the messages are still stored but it changes it to “Deleted User”. I would like for ALL messages to be deleted once an account is deleted even though all messages will be encrypted. I don’t want it to say “From [Deleted User]: Pancakes are the best thing in the world” I want there to be NO trace of my pancake addiction if I delete my account

Ok cool, it’s disassociated from identity, but what if in the message I type “Yeah, I got the name BioRat because blah blah”. It will say “Deleted User”, but you still know someone named “BioRat” typed the message because in the message I said my username. I want messages deleted also when an account is deleted. Again, I’m glad it will be encrypted but.

^I do like this.

I love the fact that they DON’T collect any of these things:

The Thing Is.

Is it open source?

Right now, it is not open source which scares me, so there’s really no way to check the code and verify if all of this is true. Thankfully, it will become open source in the future according to the team

but yeah, it IS closed source right now so.

Here is the full privacy policy if you want to read it: Privacy Policy

Is there a Desktop app or a mobile app?

Not right now but they are working on that from what I’m seeing. Right now, it can only be used in the browser.

Conclusion

Right now, it’s very early in development, but I’m liking what they’re doing! Shoutout to CasuelHeroes, he goes even more in depth in his video talking about it which I will leave here

But I will most likely use this one over the other alternatives. Just let me bulk delete messages upon account deletion; make it open source so we can verify everything and it’s gold.

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Introduction (the fact they do this is crazy)

There’s a data broker out there that absolutely refuses to take down people’s personal information, and the messed up part about it is, they’ve had multiple complaints from victims of stalking talking about how they refuse to take their information down even when they provide them ample proof of their situation.

Every data broker I’ve worked with has happily taken down all of my information save for this one, but I’ll tell you what you can do in a situation like this

BlockShopper.com

The website is called BlockShopper.com, a sleazy, unbeguiling little data broker website run by crumb-bum, Brian Timpone and lush-creep coward, Edward Weinhaus. One of the yellow sneaks that works for their customer service, Scarlet Simpson sent me this email when I asked them to take my information down

TLDR: “Screw you, It’s already public information” in which I responded

Just because information like this is public doesn’t mean you should refuse people, ESPECIALLY STALKING VICTIMS their right to privacy when they REQUEST you to take it down. The funny part is, their information is nowhere to be found on this website (but definitely on other websites if you want to look), but they’re perfectly ok with exposing other people’s information.

Which means that they lied in THEIR OWN policy since they promise to take your information down if you’re a victim of stalking or anything of that nature; all you’d need to do is provide proof,

but the internet is FILLED with people and stalking victims complaining about how rude Scarlet is and the website owners in general.

What To Do in a Situation Like This

As much as I can’t stand Google, I admire the fact that they WILL remove links revealing personal information for the most part.

It’s better to show than to tell so I made a video

This would at least remove the video from Google making it harder for someone to search, but sadly it won’t remove it from the website because the webmasters have to do that and the webmasters are sniveling, little curs.

Conclusion

Hope this was able to help someone, because sadly, there are some data brokers out there like these “people” who will refuse to remove your information from their website. Thank you for reading and letting me rant in the process. STAY TUNED cause I will do a part two on this if I find out some legal action one can take against websites like this

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If we’re going to be real, they’ve been collecting this information but due to everything that’s going on especially today, it’s something you should really look at and disable if you still choose to use the app.

Written Tutorial (for those who like to read)

• Go to your TikTok profile and click the 3 lines up top

• Go to “Settings And Privacy”

• Go to “Ads”

• Toggle off “Targeted Ads Outside Of Tiktok

• Toggle off “Targeted Ads”

• Click “Clear Off-TikTok Data”

Conclusion

Hope this was able to help at least one person!

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What are Flock Cameras?

For those of you who don’t know and are just hearing about these for the first time, Flock Cameras made by Flock Safety are ALPR(Automated License Plate Recognition). They use A.I(Artificial Intelligence) to read and store license plates in a vast (and sometimes publicly available, will get to that later) database. Pretty much everywhere you go can be tracked and stored by these cameras.

They capture the license plate; the make and model of the car; the color and other identifying features. And again, in some states, this is publicly available information that can be requested which leads me to

Why This Is a Stalker’s Dream

Especially for stalkers like this man above who works in law enforcement and can have access to these cameras anytime he wants to. Read the full story here.

The thing is, in some states you don’t even have to be law enforcement to have access to these images like in Washington State where it has been ruled that these images are public record

which they are currently trying to rectify~(Source). That brings up the question which I will ask you who’s reading: If law enforcement can have access to this information, do you think the public should also have access?

I know for me personally, although I consider myself ethical, I have the mentality of a stalker. Due to my obsessive nature, If I want to find information on a bad person, I will do everything I can to find it. Would I access the public records of a flock camera to do that? Of course I would. Stalkers salivate accessing information like this, I would. Even if it’s for no rhyme or reason, a stalker could just enjoy the feeling of “I’m watching these cars and they have no idea that I’m watching them”. Do you want me to have access to this information? Curious

How To Find Out If One Is Near You

Ok, enough of that. You’re probably wondering how you can find out if one of these cameras are near you.

You can go to DeFlock

There is also AlPR.watch

The best thing about this website is that not only can you see if there’s Flock cameras near you, but you can also find out if there’s meetings in your area where you can discuss these cameras and let your voice be heard.

Also, if you do attend these meetings and don’t know what to say, there’s also a website that can help you with that so you can go in prepared. See it here

Big shoutout to Louis Rossmann for this information

Conclusion

Just wanted to bring this to your attention if you haven’t heard about it already and give my little take on it. Even if one person didn’t know about this, I’m glad I was able to let you know, ESPECIALLY in today’s climate with everything going on.

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Introduction (These two software)

A newly developed story just broke on how ICE bought the two software, WEBLOC and Tangles and they’re using it to spy and monitor anyone that’s attending protests

(source: How ICE uses phone and internet data to identify and track people | MPR News)

One of the many scary parts about all of this is that they can obtain this information without a warrant (I will be explaining how it works in the next section) due to the fact that the information is already publicly available. We already share this data with third parties, which leads me to how these software actually work and how you can potentially mitigate them if you’re going out to protest.

How Webloc and Tangles Work

Webloc: Webloc works by tracking location data. It gathers location data from millions mobile devices through public data brokers and allows agents to circle a perimeter on a map and monitor every phone in that perimeter and even after they leave that perimeter. So, if protesters were all going to gather at a certain spot, they can circle that spot on a map and monitor all the phones there.

Tangles: Tangles is a social media monitoring tool that agents can use to scrape public posts on the internet (again why they don’t need a warrant to do this). So pretty much, they can use it to set a filter on anything that’s Anti-ICE or anything they find of interest and it will send them an alert on who posted it. They can then put that person on a watchlist and they will be alerted about ANYTHING they post or any new public information that pops up online. So, anyone that’s in the watchlist will be monitored.

It can also detect faces, perform sentiment analysis and build entire profiles on people based on their posts, location history, social connections and just general public information from Data Brokers

Ways To Protect Yourself from These Tools

Webloc: Turn off your location

The easiest one to protect yourself against is Webloc since it mainly works by tracking location, so turning off your location across all of your apps is a surefire way to protect yourself from that one. Also, a Faraday Bag like this one HERE for extra protection (Yes, this is an affiliate link)

Tangles: Tangles is a little trickier since it tracks social media activity and public data. What you can do for starters is make all of your social media private since that limits a lot of what it can see.

If you’re going to post anything anti-ICE or anything about the protests on social media, do it from social media accounts not linked to you AT ALL. Different name, different email, different phone number, different profile picture, etc. I would also make these new accounts under different IP addresses using a VPN which I will talk about later in this article

You can learn more about creating online pseudonyms in my book “The Perfect Pseudonym”

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Read through my previous articles on my Substack also, there is a lot of free information there about erasing your data from Data Brokers, creating and hiding behind fake data, etc.

Opting out of A.i training.

Many platforms like Meta and X (Twitter) allows you to opt out of A.i training, so I would do that for sure. I can write a separate article on that if you’d like

Scrubbing Meta Data from Photos

For good measure, I would also scrub the meta data from any photos you post on social media about the protests using tools like MetaClean. There’s also ExifTool, MetaClean is one you can use on the web. Most major social media sites already do this when you post a photo, but it’s always good to be extra safe in situations like this. Plus, we don’t know what they really do with the metadata in our photos

Delete inactive accounts

This one is pretty self-explanatory. Any old accounts that you’re not using anymore, get rid of them because they still contain public and searchable data

Purge yourself from Databrokers

Tangles often use scraped data that it gets from public data brokers. So, I would start off by going to this website and researching yourself: IntelTechniques/Tools. This site has a lot of the major data brokers listed that you can use to search yourself. Find as much information as you can about yourself. Use the “Name” tab, type in your name and see what pops up and opt out of it. Go to IDCrawl and type in your name usernames you’ve used and see what accounts you can find on yourself and delete unnecessary ones.

I have an entire video on how to use Google to find websites that have your name and address also. (Click the title is you learn better through reading)

There are websites like DeleteMe that can do this for your automatically, but I’ve not tested it yet, so I can’t recommend it.

Masking your IP address

Also, you should use a VPN in combination with everything I’ve listed above, especially when you want to take your phone out of your Faraday bag and use the internet. Make those new protest-centered accounts while using a VPN so the website doesn’t log your real IP address when you make them. It’s good to have accounts with fake names, phone numbers, email addresses etc, but you also want a fake IP address when you’re making them.

Proton VPN is the one I recommend here: ProtonVPN

Conclusion

I know I threw a lot at you, but if you have any questions about anything, let me know for sure. Just wanted to do my part in helping anyone that’s out there that’s facing this.

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How Leaving Reviews Can Be Detrimental To Privacy

One of the things I do when I’m stal…… doing an investigation on someone to see where they potentially live or just to get more information on them in general is to see where they left reviews, how recently they left those reviews, etc. That is where my good friend Epieos comes in

With Epieos, if you have someone’s email, you can see a plethora of things INCLUDING the recent reviews that they left using the “Google Maps” link

If I see that you’ve left a bunch of reviews on businesses somewhere in Minnesota, that IN MY MIND is a green puzzle piece; a neon green puzzle piece if I already have a bunch of other clues that you might live in Minnesota.

How You Can Use This to Your Advantage

It’s a really simple thing and something I do all the time to poison my data. I simply leave reviews on businesses located in a place where I don’t live. Like this

This is one of my emails that I use for one of my online pseudonyms. This pseudonym lives in Fayetteville Arkansas, so I have everything this pseudonym does linked to Fayetteville Arkansas including his LinkedIn and Facebook. So, if someone were to put this email address in Epieos or something similar, they would see a bunch of reviews on places in Fayetteville Arkansas and since the plan is for them to think that’s really me, it would throw them off.

Conclusion (Steps to take)

So yes, this could be the start of your online pseudonym if you don’t already have one. Make a new Gmail and start using that one for everything you do online that’s public, especially if you’re a content creator. Review businesses that’s not in the state that you’re in and that can be your start.

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Beware: ReviewNowUs

This will be a quick newsletter because I just wanted to get this out to you guys quickly before you see this website on TikTok somewhere and fall for it.

The website is called ReviewNowUs, and it’s all over “SideHustleTok” right now.

As you can see, it’s a website that promises to pay you to listen to Spotify songs. Don’t do it!

Why It’s a Scam:

As of the time of me writing this, the domain is only two days old

Not only is the website literally two days old, but it’s not affiliated with Spotify at all; a quick Google Search will show you that.

The only thing that comes up really is the TikTok video that I was mentioning earlier. Nothing about it being affiliated with Spotify at all.

Not to mention, it has that little notification at the corner saying “So and so just made $100 from reviewing a song” that pops up every couple of seconds. The website is two days old, not affiliated with Spotify with no one talking about it except for one TikTok video. Yeah, pretty sure “Eleanor from Florida” didn’t just make money a minute ago. “Verified by Spotify”…WHERE?!

Conclusion

The only thing this website is doing is collecting data from you so they can sell it to marketing campaigns; send you spammy emails and trying to get you to install something malicious. As the old saying goes: if it’s too good to be true, it probably is.

Sorry I haven’t been posting at all; I’ve had a lot going on in my personal life with trying to find employment. It’s been hard out here, but I’m trying. I will continue to try my best to bring you all useful content.

Another great article on the subject:

Someone else also wrote a great article on the scam website that I think you should check out: The Article

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Introduction

If you went through privacy psychosis like me, or just care about your privacy in general, then you probably hate this company. I hate them too, matter of fact, I’m doing my best to try to get away from them completely, but every evil corporation does something good to keep you hooked. I must say, this feature helps me a lot when it comes to monitoring my information.

Google Alerts

Again, I hate Google, but I love this feature. Let’s say you’ve successfully taken down most of your information off of websites and had it delisted from Google; you can pretty much use this to alert you in real time when that information shows back up in Google search results so you can delete it again. It’s pretty much like you using the search engine all day, but it’s automated by Google Alerts. Since it’s pretty much like using the search engine, you can use Google Dorks with it as well to monitor information even closely.

For Example:

If you wanted to monitor when your name and address pop up on the internet together, you can use

“Your Name“ AND “Your Address“

This would set an alert that will email you every time your name and your address show up on Google. Make sure all of the settings on your alerts look like this

“As-It-Happens” is one of the most important ones, because literally as it shows up, you will get an email, and you can just delete it.

“All Results” is the second most important, because it won’t just scan the top results and top pages, it will scan ALL pages. Anyone with the stalker mindset, we don’t just stop at the first couple of pages when looking for information on you…trust me.

My Favorite Alerts as a Content Creator

As a content creator, I really like to make sure my real name isn’t coming up next to my username in search results. So, I really love this one:

“Your Online Username“ AND “Your Real Name”

For Example:

“NutellaLover89” AND “Jeremy Rooney”

This will monitor Google Search results, and if anything with NutellaLover89 and Jeremy Rooney pops up, it will send you an email and you can check it out to see if it’s relevant to you. If it is, you can delete it, because you don’t want your real name showing up if someone does a deep dive on your username

Some Others I Like As A Content Creator:

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Shout out to for bringing this to my attention and inspiring this article. Another account you should follow if you care about privacy.

Introduction

The video speaks for itself, a hammer-wielding stalker flies across the country to bludgeon someone that he had an altercation with over an online video game. A sick individual really, but I want to go over the potential ways he could’ve found his location and ways you can avoid this. Because he could’ve not only decided to fly across the country to attack him, he could’ve also decided to SWAT him if he wanted; both scenarios are horrible.

According to the reports, the victim shared just enough personal information for this person to piece together his real-life location, and if you’ve been reading my articles, you’ll know that I always say

“Any piece of information is a goldmine for a stalker”

You have to remember, when we get in that mindset, we become crazed and obsessed until we find something. We’ll dig down that rabbit hole until our shovel is tapping under your floorboard.

1. Potential Overuse of Username

It’s possible that the victim uses their online-gaming username for other accounts as well, making their digital footprint a bit easier to follow. If I were stalking this person, The first thing I’d do is google dork their username to see what pops up.

Any potential accounts that could give me some clues as to where they might be located IF they didn’t reveal their state to me already in a casual conversation over a FortNite Chug-Jug. If I know where you’re located, that makes the narrowing process that much easier.

2.Reverse Image Search Profile Picture

After I research their username through various ways, I’m going to reverse image search the profile picture they’re using for their gaming account (Steam, Epic Games, etc).

I may find something, and I may not, but it’s always worth a shot in my mind when I’m trying to find out more information on someone. Maybe their gaming profile picture is very unique; maybe it’s a picture with a logo on it that they’re using across multiple accounts like the example above. Maybe that will lead to more pieces of the puzzle? Who knows.

3.General Scanning Of Profile

With a combination of the two previous steps, I’d also just scan their profile to see what I can find. Any type of clues: games they play; how they play them; who they’re friends with; statuses they’ve posted on Steam; reviews they’ve left on Steam, etc. Small bits of information that could pretty much lead to nowhere, but it could be more small pieces in the overall puzzle.

How To Avoid This

1.Username

Do not use the same username that you use for everything else on the internet unless you absolutely have to for your brand, and if you do, your brand should be tied to information that has nothing to do with your personal information, a pseudonym if you will. As the man said in the video, “create a new account”. Create an ENTIRELY new account.

If you need tips on creating a pseudonym for your online persona/brand, I wrote an entire guide on it here:

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2. Profile Picture

Use a profile picture that you’re only going to use for your gaming profile and DO NOT…DO NOT use a picture of your face. Reverse image searching is one of the first things I do when I have the profile picture of the person I’m trying to gather information on. I suggest using A.i to generate a unique profile picture that you’re only going to use for gaming. That way if someone tries to reverse image search it, it will have no “Exact Results” since you just generated it.

3. Profile Scanning (Information Poisoning )

Have absolutely nothing revealing on your profile or information that can potentially lead back to you. Get in the mindset of a stalker and ask yourself if what you’re about to put on your profile can potentially lead back to you in ANY kind of way.

Better yet, fill your profile with poisoned information. If you’re really from Idaho, list on your profile that you’re from Arizona.

If someone ask where you’re from in an online game, tell them a fake state. I don’t care how long you’ve been “knowing” them. The fake state that you picked is the state that you live in as long as you’re online.

Conclusion

I hope you’ve learned something! Be careful out there in this cyber world!

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The site is called: Privnote

You can write your message and as soon as someone reads it, it’s gone.

I still wouldn’t put anything too private in there because it can obviously be screenshotted, but it can still come in handy.

Take your privacy more seriously as a content creator or a regular person

If you’re a content creator or wanting to become one, you NEED to have a pseudonym tied to your username, and that pseudonym needs to have its own information, its own identity, so if you ever get doxxed by a “fan”. It won’t be YOU getting doxxed, it will be your pseudonym.

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Introduction

POV: You’re someone trying to be a creep and find information on your favorite content creator “FluffyDorito95”. You’re obsessed with them; you want to know where they live and where they work. You type their username into Google. You comb through the results, and you come across something you think is juicy

“Oh my God…Is that his Linkedin? THAT IS! His real name, where he lives and everything! Holy shit

But here’s the thing, this information is FAKE, but it shows up when you type in “FluffyDorito95”. Everything here is fake! The name, the location, the work history, all of it is fake, but you don’t know that.

You think you found FluffyDorito’s actual information, which is very normal for you to think. Most people won’t think to create a fake LinkedIn and have it rank in the search engines to deter potential stalkers. And now you’re going down a false rabbit hole using false information you think is real. This is why Data Poisoning is so important and should be talked about more

Data Poisoning

Data Poisoning is pretty much this: creating fake data and tying it to something, rather it be your real name or a name you go by on the internet.

Example: Your online name is “FluffyDorito95”, and you create some accounts (Like LinkedIn) around FluffyDorito95 with false information so it can rank in the search engine. And when potential stalkers find it, they think they found your real information.

How to Make It Rank

On this fake LinkedIn, you may say something in the bio like “I run a Youtube Channel called FluffyDorito95, come check me out”, or in the job history, you may mention FluffyDorito95 as one of your jobs, etc. Make a post containing the username. The username has to be present somewhere on the account so it can rank in the search engine when someone searches for it.

Be Careful with LinkedIn

The only problem with LinkedIn is that: they do tend to flag new accounts if you move too fast following people, adding friends, making posts etc, so if you’re going to do this, treat it like a real account and don’t move too fast. LinkedIn isn’t the only website you can do this with either.

Reddit is another good place to do this with. I will be talking more about that in the future so don’t forget to subscribe

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But if you want a FULL GUIDE on this technique:

I have an entire guide that has a section talking all about Data Poisoning, ways to do it and websites you can use to create the false information along with other ways Content Creators (and regular people) can use to protect their online privacy called “The Perfect Pseudonym”. If you’re a content creator or wanting to become one, you NEED to have a pseudonym tied to your username, and that pseudonym needs to have its own information, its own identity, so if you ever get doxxed by a “fan”. It won’t be YOU getting doxxed, it will be your pseudonym.

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Introduction

My friend wrote a brilliant article recently about 3 hidden settings on Venmo you should know about and why you should make your Venmo private, and I will link that article below, because he lists it out perfectly. I’m here to piggyback off of that and tell you what goes through my mind when I’m investigating someone, and I see an exposed Venmo. The puzzle pieces that can be gathered and the information that can be found and/or confirmed. Another cranny to examine in the rabbit hole of information.

Their Venmo Helped Me Confirm

This was an investigation I did on someone a while back trying to find out who they were and where they were located because they were harassing a friend of mine. Of course, I found and went through everything that I had on them until eventually, I came across a data broker profile that I had a hunch was for them.

I suspected that was them due to other information I had, but I wanted to confirm. The best thing (or worst thing) about these data broker sites is they not only have your information, but your family and who you associate with.

I had this person’s Venmo, and I saw that them and “Mr. Denney” (as you see in the photo) were making a lot of transactions

The Gears Turn

“Who is this person and why are they making so many transactions?”, “Are they related to them in anyway?” “Hmm, If I see this person listed on their data broker account, that pretty much confirms that’s the same person”

All stuff going through my brain, and they were also friends with this person.

And when I saw this on the “family” part of the data broker profile

I knew it was them. The exact name of the person they were paying back and forth on Venmo. So that, combined with the other pieces of information I had, it was all I needed to confirm that this data broker profile belonged to the person I was trying to find.

Of course, that then lead me to their location.

Conclusion: Keep Your Venmo Private

It would’ve been much harder for me to confirm everything if this person didn’t have their Venmo public. Now granted, the same comparison technique can be used with Facebook, but that’s an article for another time.

When it comes to the stalker’s mindset, everything found about you or around you is a question; a potential piece of the puzzle that is YOU. If your Venmo is public, that’s just more people for them to research to find out more about you.

This is why you should read this article by on how to make your Venmo private and turn off critical settings

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Most people don’t think twice about Venmo’s public payment feed…

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Why You Should Hide Your Following

What Goes Through My Head When I See This

You want to know what really gets my wheels turning when I’m doing an investigation on someone? When I go through their “following” and I see them following multiple accounts centered around this one thing. Because why else would they be following MULTIPLE accounts centered around that? So, if this is you, I would really unfollow them, but you can also use it as a way to make dummy information. What am I talking about? Well.

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This is one of the first things I do when I want to see what information is out there about me, mainly what websites contain my name and address since that’s the most important to me.

I would go to the Google Search bar and type

• “Your name here”

• “Your Address here”

Of course, you would replace those with your name and address and MAKE SURE it’s in quotations. The quotations tell google exactly what to pull up, so in this case, it would pull up the majority of the websites that contain your name and address. Once you find them, you would then go and opt out of the ones you find.

After you opt out, be sure to remove the link from Google also, because someone can still see the information on Google even though it’s removed from the website. Send a “Refresh” request telling Google to refresh the listing so it disappears, or tell Google that the link contains sensitive information, and you want it gone.

It’s good to both: Opt out of the website AND remove it from Google Search.

Bonus Way to Search for Your Information.

This is something I didn’t include in the video, but I will include it here for Substack only (because I think you all are rad, cool beans). Use IntelTechniques/Tools to find even more sites to opt out of.

The “Names” section is my favorite to find other sites I can search myself on that may not show up in Google

Here is an article and I collaborated on that talks even more about IntelTechniques and how a stalker can use it to find information on someone. If they can use it to find information on you, you can use it to find information on yourself.

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An App That Does This Automatically?

I’m currently working on an app that does this automatically, like what you saw in the video or read. I’m working on an app called

• Who Got My Addy?

(Cringy, I know lol)

The app does pretty much what I just explained. It sends out A.I Agents that search Google for websites that contain your name and address. It can be wonky at times, but I think it does a better job than a normal Google Dork because they’re trained to be “experts” in finding information. This is the prototype; I’m not done yet

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Shout out to for inspiring me to get this article out earlier. Check them out. Another amazing writer in the cybersecurity/privacy space