Email search: overview

The Email Intelligence search type takes a single email address and fans it out across the identity-enrichment, scam-report and account-footprint data sources UserSearch integrates — resolving the address to linked accounts, public profiles, and other identity records where a data source holds them. It is the natural starting point when your lead is an email address rather than a username, phone number, image, or other identifier.

Email Intelligence search type active, with the Module grid and an empty query field

When to use it

Reach for Email Intelligence when you hold an email address and want to:

• Run a fast, broad reverse-email sweep over social and dating registrations (the Reverse-Email (Fast) Module).
• Fan one address across several data sources at once and compare the results side by side (the Email (OneScan) Module — the recommended starting point).
• Query a specific data source directly — Pipl, Predicta, Epieos, OSINT Industries, Gravatar, ProtonMail, or a scam database (the single-source Modules).

This search type exposes eleven Modules. For the full breakdown of each — its data source, cost, and what it returns — see Email modules & options.

Note

Email Intelligence is for identity enrichment. To check whether an address appears in known data breaches or leak corpora, use the separate Public Leaks search type instead — those breach data sources are documented apart from this triad.

The end-to-end flow

Email Intelligence follows the same search composer flow as every other search in UserSearch — see How UserSearch works for the general model.

1. In the composer header, open the Search type selector (the dropdown with a chevron) and choose Email (its Module grid swaps to the email-oriented Modules). The active search type is drawn in the coral-orange accent colour.
2. Pick a Module from the grid. The grid is single-select: the chosen tile is drawn with a coral-orange border and title, and selecting one deselects the others. Selecting a tile loads its description, its Cost per search line, and its query form. Email (OneScan) is badged RECOMMENDED — start there for the broadest coverage.
3. (Optional) configure the data source. The OneScan Module carries a gear icon that opens a Choose Data Source modal, where you toggle which data sources run (and set the dynamic cost). See Email modules & options.
4. (Optional) enable Bulk search in the header to run the Module over several addresses in one pass — capped at 5 queries per search. See Bulk search.
5. Enter the email address in the query field, then confirm the Cost per search line beneath the input.
6. Select Search Now (the coral-orange button with a magnifier icon). The Search Results panel populates on the right; before you run anything its empty state reads No active search.

Start with OneScan

Email (OneScan) is the vendor-recommended starting point: one query fans out across multiple data sources and merges the results, giving broader coverage than any single-source Module in one run. You can always narrow it afterwards with its Choose Data Source modal, turning off the data sources you do not need to lower the cost. See OneScan explained.

What it costs

Every Module shows its price on a Cost per search line, denominated in Credits, drawn from your main (Global) search-credits pool. Costs fall into three tiers:

• Free — Reverse-Email (Fast) is free (0 Credits).
• Fixed — a single set amount per run (the single-source Modules — Pipl, Predicta, Epieos, OSINT Industries, and others — are fixed-price).
• Dynamic — a range whose charge is the sum of the data sources left toggled on. Email (OneScan) is dynamic.

Caution

For the Email search type, only two cost facts were captured: Reverse-Email (Fast) is free, and Email (OneScan) is dynamic. The exact Credit amount for every fixed-price single-source Module — and the captured range for OneScan — was not captured. Always read the Cost per search line on the tile before running any paid Module. See Credits & pricing.

What you get back

Running a search populates the Search Results panel on the right, with the standard header counters — Found (green), Enriched (orange), and Connections (white) — over a results table whose columns adapt to the Module you ran, plus a Details panel for the selected row.

For how to read and verify those results, see Reading Email results and the general concept Found, Enriched & Connections.

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Related: Email modules & options · Reading Email results · OneScan · Credits & pricing

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