The rising cost of UK OSINT Databases – I was annoyed when previously Land Registry went from £3 to £7 for each Title Document, but yesterday I was really shocked when I had to download some Wills & Probate documents for an enquiry from https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/, and its gone from £1.50 to £16 for each Will, and it doesn’t say anything until you are ready to pay.

It is still a great service but that is quite a price rise, so you have to remember to factor in all of these price rises when quoting a price to a client for a job

I've written some OSINT related articles for the UK OSINT Community, the first is on Understanding Breach Data @ https://www.osint.uk/content/osint-101-understanding-breach-data

I've written another OSINT related article for the UK OSINT Community, this one is on Your Digital Footprint During Online Investigations @ https://www.osint.uk/content/computer-footprints-osint

So pleased to see that faceseek.online @ https://www.faceseek.online/ is back up and working, it was by far the best reverse image tool for finding linked images and accounts for people, so we have added it back to the Reverse Image Searching page of our OSINT / i3 website at https://www.uk-osint.net/reverseimagesearching.html

I've written another OSINT related article for the UK OSINT Community, this one is on How to Use OSINT to Investigate UK Vehicles @ https://www.osint.uk/content/uk-motor-vehicle-research-using-osint

I've written another OSINT related article for the UK OSINT Community, this one is on How to Use OSINT to Investigate UK Companies, Directors and Hidden Business Links - Looking Beyond a Company Website @ https://www.osint.uk/content/uk-company-research-using-osint

Added a link to the GoChat Messaging App @ https://www.gochatapp.net/en/index.html to the Messenger Apps page on our OSINT / i3 website @ https://www.uk-osint.net/messengerapps.html as recently I've noticed it crop up a few times when I'm researching people, so it's definitely one to add to your burner phone for when you are checking out contact details for people, as it's very similar to WhatsApp & Telegram

I have created a new page on our OSINT / i3 website for Photo OCR Sites & Links @ https://www.uk-osint.net/photoocrdetails.html as sometimes you may come across an image online, which has text within it, which you may need to translate to fully understand it, or need to copy & paste the text into a report. The links on this page use OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, to turn the text within an image, into text which you can easily translate and copy & paste.

I've written another OSINT related article for the UK OSINT Community, this one is on How to Use OSINT to Investigate Aircraft, Ships and Vessel Movements @ https://www.osint.uk/content/aircraft-ships-research-using-osint

I have added a link for Blackflare @ https://blackflare.io/ to the Telegram page on our OSINT / i3 website @ https://www.uk-osint.net/telegram.html

I was given a demo of Blackflare @ https://blackflare.io/ a while ago, and they have continued to work on it, so amongst other things, it is also a really useful resource if you are investigating Telegram accounts, groups & channels

I've written another OSINT related article for the UK OSINT Community, this one is on How to Use OSINT to Research LinkedIn Profiles, Careers and Professional Connections @ https://www.osint.uk/content/conducting-osint-on-linkedin

An OSINT site recommendation, for lolarchiver @ https://osint.lolarchiver.com/, which is a site that I have been using for a couple of years, and is shown & linked to on several pages of our website.

So yes, when researching email addresses and mobiles numbers, sites such as OSINT Industries and Epieos are essential in many OSINT investigations, however I really love lolarchiver and have lost count of the number of times I have been able to successfully complete an investigation because of the additional information which lolarchiver has provided. I love the additional emails linked to Gmail accounts, the dates of birth & address details it has supplied on some foreign nationals, and the Twitter account name & bio history details.

I should say the people behind lolarchiver haven't asked me to do this, haven't paid me for this, and aren't even aware I'm doing it, actually I even pay full price for my lolarchiver account, which I am happy to do, as the additional information it supplies pays for itself every month.

I have added a link for fuzzyreg @ https://www.fuzzyreg.co.uk/ to the UK - Full & Partial UK Registration / Number Plate Research Sites section, on the Motor Vehicle Related Sites page on our OSINT / i3 website @ https://www.uk-osint.net/motorvehicle.html

Fuzzyreg lets you search partial UK number plates, replacing unknown / missing characters with a ? or a *, and adding a Make, Model or Colour, and it will return a list of possible registrations, along with the vehicles make, model & colour, and with other details, linked to the MOT, so is a useful addition to the other similar sites listed

I have added a link for facesearch.it.com to the Reverse Image Searching page on our OSINT / i3 website @ https://www.uk-osint.net/reverseimagesearching.html

facesearch.it.com offers a few free searches but is basically a paid for facial reverse image site, which is quite like faceseek.online, searching an image of a face and matching it to images of potentially the same person online.

I have found both quite effective, and much better than others, as they generally locate the correct person on numerous sites, including social media sites, which the free ones tend not to, so they are both well worth trying out and using

I have updated the Email & Mobile Number related pages on our OSINT / i3 website @ https://www.uk-osint.net/email.html & https://www.uk-osint.net/mobilephone.html, removing a few old dead links and adding a few more useful ones, like HoleHe @ https://holehe.org/, which is a free username, email & mobile number search site, with a really nice display, and shows some very good results for a free site

Going through our website and checking the old pages for dead links, so have decided to delete the UK Social Media Sites & Links page, and rename the European Social Media Sites & Links page, to create a new European & UK Social Media Sites & Links related page on our OSINT / i3 website @ https://www.uk-osint.net/euro&uksocialmedia.html, it doesn't have many sites but they are best placed here

Changing things around from the old Favorites page, so I have created a new page on Electoral / Voters Roll Databases Sites for our OSINT / i3 website at https://www.uk-osint.net/electoral&votersrolldatabases.html, with links for some useful sites, which I will add to, so if you know of any useful similar databases then let me know and I will check them out and add them.

I have also added a prominent link for Palatine @ http://www.palatine.co.uk, who I have been a client of for well over 20years, as if you are an investigator in the UK, rather than going direct to each Credit Reference Agency or database / information provider for access, and paying their standard price, Palatine can arrange online accounts with a number of these useful databases, at a discounted rate and on a pay-per-click basis.

I was notified about saucematch.com, which I have added to the Reverse Image Searching Related page @ https://www.uk-osint.net/reverseimagesearching.html & OnlyFans page @ https://www.uk-osint.net/onlyfans.html of our OSINT / i3 website

Saucematch @ https://saucematch.com can be searched via a screenshot, GIF or a video clip, and it searches its own index of over 4 million indexed adult videos, so it is for that kind of adult material and won't help with general images or footage. It will also find reposts of the same video on other sites, which helps when needing to trace where a video clip has spread

I imagine it may be a useful tool when investigating missing & trafficked cases

I was notified about ttanon.com, so have added it to the Access A TikTok Account Via A Third Party Site section on the TikTok page on our OSINT / i3 website @ https://www.uk-osint.net/tiktok.html
 
ttanon.com, is not only useful if your organisation blocks access to TikTok, as you can search for and view a TikTok account without the need for an account, but it also has some useful additional features, such as video download and transcript, as well as some limited Followers / Following details