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Enumerate a username across hundreds of platforms with sherlock, maigret and WhatsMyName, then correlate and confirm which accounts genuinely belong to the same person. Use for username OSINT and handle enumeration, "find all accounts for this username", cross-platform account correlation, nickname and screen-name pivots, or turning a handle into a real name. Applies to fraud and synthetic-identity investigation, recruitment and marketplace scam checks, trust-and-safety enforcement, insider-threat work, and personal exposure audits. Reference at useosint.com/skills/hunt-a-handle.

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# Hunt a handle

Handle reuse is the cheapest strong link in OSINT: one string, checked in
minutes, potentially tying a dozen platforms to one person. It is also the most
over-trusted. Enumerators do not verify identity — they perform HTTP existence
checks — and a hit list is a list of *candidates*, nothing more. The mistake
that ruins these investigations is pasting the tool's output into the report.
Enumeration is the cheap half; confirmation is the work.

## Step 1 — Authorized scope

Read [../../ETHICS.md](../../ETHICS.md) and write down, before any query:
subject, objective, in-bounds selectors, out-of-bounds actions (logging in,
contacting, requesting follows), and the governing jurisdiction. Handle hunting
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