Mastering Email OSINT: Techniques for Uncovering Online Footprints

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This presentation will explore email addresses as the ultimate OSINT datapoint, covering reverse email address searches, finding a subject’s emails, types of information that can be gathered using an email address (such as social media profiles, monikers, domains, and more), and the Gaia ID and how to find it. Additionally, it will feature a success story from an international fraud investigation where I guessed the main suspect’s email, confirmed it, located their Google Contributor account, and traced their location. The presentation will also include exclusive tips on setting up a virtual sockpuppet environment and using it to add your subject’s email as a contact, which can help in identifying their online profiles.

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SANS Open-Source Intelligence Summit 2025
Mastering Email OSINT: Techniques for Uncovering Online Footprints
Jess Ben Arosh, Senior Associate, Forensics, Doane Grant Thornton