Buying or selling on Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, or eBay — safely.
Online marketplaces are efficient — and a magnet for fraud. Most scams collapse under two habits: verify the person, and use protected payment.
The item that's too cheap, the seller who «can't meet» but will ship after payment, and pressure to pay by Zelle, wire, or gift card. Once you pay by those irreversible methods to someone you can't verify, the money is gone. A real seller accepts protected payment and can show the item on video.
Overpayment «by mistake» with a request to refund the difference, fake payment confirmation emails, and buyers who want to move off-platform immediately. Never ship until real funds clear in your account, and never refund against a screenshot.
Check the email or phone they give you. A brand-new address with no history behind a high-value deal is a red flag; an established identity is reassuring. Our verify-a-seller page does exactly this.
Prefer platform-protected payment or cash for local pickup in a public place. Avoid Zelle, wire, crypto, and gift cards with strangers — they exist to be irreversible. If someone pushes you toward those, that pressure alone is the scam.
If you remember nothing else: irreversible payment to an unverified stranger is where nearly every marketplace loss happens. Zelle, wire, crypto, and gift cards were chosen by scammers precisely because there's no chargeback. Flip it into a rule — «I only pay strangers by methods I can reverse, or cash in person» — and the majority of these scams simply can't touch you, regardless of how convincing the story is.
The record coverage of a people-search engine, plus an AI layer that reads, verifies, and summarizes the digital footprint.
Addresses, phones, emails, property, and known associates from public and commercial databases.
Social profiles, usernames, and public web mentions matched into a single identity.
Plain-language summary: who they are, what stands out, what to watch.
Sentiment, red-flag detection, and a reputation score for fast, informed decisions.
Start from an email, phone, or username and work back to a verified person.
See your own exposure and get a removal checklist for data brokers.
Scattered public records and online signals — matched to one person and organized into a clear, AI-verified report in about two minutes.
A plain-language read of who they are and what stands out.
Address, phone, and public records matched to one identity.
Social profiles and public mentions across the web.
Red-flag detection and an honest identity-confidence score.
Three steps, about two minutes.
A name, email, phone, or username is enough. Add a city to narrow results.
Recordwell queries 410+ sources, matches records to one person, and drops noise.
A structured report with contacts, footprint, public-record mentions, and a reputation summary.
One search, many answers — for the moments that matter.
Verify your match is real, spot catfish, and meet with peace of mind.
Check a landlord, buyer, seller, or business contact before you commit.
Track down an old friend or classmate from just a name or username.
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The coverage you expect, with the honesty most people-search sites don't offer.
We read the raw signals and write a clear, plain-language summary — not an overwhelming list.
Breach and personal details are unlocked only after you verify the email is yours.
Transparent pricing and one-click cancel. No dark-pattern traps.
217 county assessor and appraisal databases — who owns what, from the office that recorded it. Most people-search products carry none of this.
Not a resold broker feed: county property rolls, state licence boards, federal courts and sanctions lists, loaded from the agencies themselves. See the list.
Found your own data? We show you how to get it taken down.
We're new — so instead of invented reviews, here's exactly what Recordwell does, and what it won't do.
Real sources, clearly labeled. Every result shows where it came from, and we separate confirmed records from other people who share the name — no pretending a guess is a match.
You stay in control. Free during beta, no card required, sensitive data unlocked only after you verify it's yours — and a one-click way to remove your own information.
Not a background-check service. Recordwell is not a Consumer Reporting Agency, so results may not be used for hiring, tenant, credit, or other FCRA-covered decisions.
A real picture of someone isn't on page one of a search engine — it's scattered across social profiles, public records, news and breach data. Most are slow, paywalled, or impossible to cross-reference by hand.
Public profiles and usernames matched across platforms into one identity.
Courts, licenses, corporate filings, donations and sanctions screening.
Search results, news mentions and public web references, summarized.
Whether an email shows up in known data breaches and what was exposed.
We read the raw signals and write one clear report — not a data dump.
Sensitive items link back to official first-sources so you can confirm.
Doing this by hand means juggling many tools and hours of cross-referencing — and you'd still miss what AI connects in minutes.
We name every one. Most people-search sites advertise “40+ verified sources” and never say which — because they resell one broker's database. We load the official files ourselves, from the agencies that publish them.
County assessor and appraisal rolls: who owns what, from the offices that record it. Almost none of our competitors carry property data at all.
Nurses, doctors, contractors, lawyers, cosmetologists, childcare workers — state boards across 55 states and territories, loaded from the boards' own files.
CourtListener dockets, SEC EDGAR, FEC donations and employers, FBI Wanted, OpenSanctions, SAM.gov exclusions, LEIE, CMS Open Payments, USASpending awards.
Corporate registries, lobbyist filings and public-employee salary disclosures — 15 payroll datasets plus 36 finance and business sources.
GitHub, GitLab, Reddit, Keybase, Mastodon, Dev.to, Docker Hub, Bitbucket, npm, ORCID, OpenAlex and more.
GDELT global news, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Gravatar, email reputation, and Have I Been Pwned — we report how many breaches an address appears in, never what was in them.
Cash for local pickup in a public place, or a platform-protected payment method. Avoid Zelle, wire, and gift cards with strangers.
Verify their email or phone against public records, ask for a video of the item, and be wary of prices far below market.
Almost always. The original payment is usually fake or will be reversed, leaving you out the refund. Never refund against an unverified payment.