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WHO SHOULD READ THIS GUIDEBOOK?

We've worked to make this guide universally helpful to help anyone and everyone understand if you should trust someone with your safety.

Online Dating
Users

Know how to validate someone's identity on dating apps

Social Media
Users

Whether using for personal or influencer use cases

Marketplace
Users

Buying or selling? Know how to stay safer

Job
Seekers

See if your boss or employer has a history of causing harm

Get the Guide for Tips, Tools, and
Strategies to Stay Safe Online & IRL

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We have partnered with organizations and associations to help further our mission of proactively preventing online harm.

What's Inside the Guide

Garbo's guide offers down-to-earth and realistic safety tips and information while giving you insights and information that goes beyond the safety basics.

How to Validate & Verify Someone's Identity

Understand how to effectively use search engines, social media, VOIP number detection, and reverse image search to validate someone's identity.

The Problems With People Search Sites & Online Background Checks

Understand the issues with online background checks (also known as "people search sites) including the overexposure of personal information, a lack of criminal records, the ability to opt-out, and the overall pros and cons of these types of sites.

How to Search Federal & Local Public Records (Criminal Records, Civil Lawsuits, & More)

Learn how to search public records including criminal records, civil lawsuits, and more without using unreliable and potentially dangerous third-party people search sites powered by data brokers.

Plus our final chapter gives other safety tips and resources you can use throughout your online interactions.

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Strategies to Stay Safe Online & IRL

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