How to Manipulate People to Do What You Want Without Abandoning Your Ethics. Pipl Finds Your Long-Lost Friend, Co-worker, Ex, or Anyone Else You're Looking to Cyber-Stalk. This isn't very creepy. Just stuff from public records and online (social networking). Out of 10 records for me, none were correct. Wrong middle name, wrong location, wrong relatives - my miss-information efforts seem to be working. ;O They even had me as the owner of the local UPS store. That's just funny. I'm in lots of public records, corporate records, DMV, land ownership, but none of those were displayed. They did have a few usenet posts from 1994 using work email addresses - not very useful since every company (6 of them) where I worked in the 1990s and 2000s have all been bought up by other companies.
There are a few very creepy services and programs out there that will dig much deeper and crosslink information better. ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform.