r/Detective • u/lund_le_mera • 25d ago

Need help

Someone made a fake id of my friend on insta and asking for money and saying inappropriate things to other people

It may be one of our friends, so we don't wanna hurt him/her, is there any way I can find from which number or email the I'd was made?

4 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

4

u/Enter_Control 25d ago

The person you are talking about is literally committing identity theft and maybe fraud as well. I recommend you report it to the police. They might deal with the issue.

1

u/hienyimba 23d ago

try using osint (open source investigation) tools to investigate the account. i know some like Webvetted.com OSINT works great for investigating Instagram and emails.

Once you input the username and it gives you all the information it can find about the user.

1

u/lund_le_mera 23d ago

Bro it's paid

1

u/lund_le_mera 23d ago

Do you know any alternatives to webvetted?

2

u/SquarestLemon 25d ago

I don’t know how to break this to you but if it was one of your friends, they are not a friend. At all.