# Predicta Search
| **Predicta Search** | **Quick Overview** |
| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| URL | |
| What it does | Helps investigators conduct fast online identity and social media research from a single interface. |
| How to use it | Enter a target identifier (email, phone, username or name), then review returned online accounts, linked profiles, and associated references. |
| Cost | Partially Free. |
| Account required | Likely yes (for proper use). |
| Cookies | Cookies support login persistence, traffic analytics, conversion tracking, and product usage insights. |
| Ownership | French company SAS PREDICTA LAB, headed up by Baptiste Robert. |
| Use in Reporting | Useful for investigating fraud, verifying identities, detecting impersonation, and enriching leads in cybersecurity or due diligence work. |
### What does Predicta Search do?
Predicta Search is a reverse-lookup OSINT tool that helps investigators search and correlate digital identifiers such as email addresses, phone numbers, usernames, and names across publicly accessible online sources. It’s designed to speed up identity discovery, account correlation, and digital footprint investigations by centralising multiple search workflows into one platform.
**The lowdown:** It’s essentially a reverse-search engine for online identities.
### How to Use:
**1. Sign in or create an account (for best results). It’s likely you’ll also need to buy some credits for use.**
**2. Enter a target identifier (email, phone number, name or username) into the search bar, and run the search.**
**3. Review results, which may include linked profiles, usernames or associated online accounts.**
### Cost
* [ ] Free
* [x] Partially Free
* [ ] Paid
## Data Processing
### Account Required:
* [x] Yes
* [ ] No
Most features seem to require registration or subscription access. When we attempted a search without logging in and with no credits, no results were returned.
### Cookies:
The site uses a mix of essential authentication and infrastructure cookies (such as load balancing and secure refresh tokens) alongside analytics and advertising cookies from Google Analytics, Google Ads, and PostHog to track user sessions, measure site performance, and analyse visitor behaviour.
### Use in Reporting
Common use cases for Predicata search include:
* **Fraud investigations:** linking suspicious emails or phone numbers from scam attempts to known online profiles or reused usernames.
* **OSINT research & journalism:** mapping a public figure, source, or alias across multiple platforms to verify identity consistency.
* **Brand protection & impersonation cases:** identifying accounts that are impersonating a company or employee using similar usernames or contact details.
* **Cybersecurity triage:** enriching indicators of compromise (like emails or handles) during incident response to understand attacker infrastructure or reused identities.
* **Due diligence checks:** quickly validating whether contact details provided by a vendor, freelancer, or applicant appear legitimate or are tied to inconsistent identities online.
| **Capabilities** | **Limitations** |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------- |
| Fast reverse identifier searching. | Relies entirely on publicly accessible data. |
| Useful for username, email and phone-number correlation. | Results may contain false positives. |
| Helps map digital footprints quickly. | Cannot independently verify identity ownership. |
| Aggregates multiple discovery workflows and reduces manual platform searching. | Subscription features may limit access depth. |
### Summary
Predicta Search is particularly valuable during early-stage reconnaissance and attribution work, where investigators need to quickly identify whether a target identifier appears elsewhere online. For investigators working in fraud, cyber investigations, due diligence, social media intelligence, or online harms, it can be a highly effective workflow tool.
### Ownership
Predicta Search is owned by the French Company, SAS PREDICTA LAB, represented by [Baptiste Robert ](https://x.com/fs0c131y)as president, according to the [Data Protection Policy.](https://www.predictasearch.com/data-protection-policy)
### Ethical Considerations
* Only investigate publicly available information.
* Avoid harassment or intrusive targeting.
* Verify findings before making attribution claims.
* Use responsibly within legal and organisational guidelines.
* Be cautious when investigating private individuals or vulnerable persons.
### Related Tools:
* [OSINT Industries](/osint-tools/osint-industries.md)
* Sherlock
* [WhatsMyName](/osint-tools/whatsmyname.md)
* [Epieos](/osint-tools/epieos.md)
* [Have I Been Pwned](/osint-tools/have-i-been-pwned.md)
#### Sources
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