How to read your CaseOnMe report
This is for people who are not security specialists. Your report is a calm look at public information — it is not proof about a person.
Before you change anything
Check a finding yourself before deleting an account, changing settings, contacting a platform, or making a decision about someone. If something in your report involves threats, stalking, a child, or a legal or work consequence, please get help from someone qualified before acting.
What the labels mean
Your report keeps two different things apart. Automated check is what our automated look at public pages concluded. Your review is what a person has actually decided. Nothing reads as confirmed until a person has recorded that decision.
Automated check
| What the report says | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| submitted in your scope / submitted or directly linked | It came from a profile you gave us, an email address you gave us, or a public link straight from one of those. Stronger than a username guess — but still an automated result, not something you have confirmed. | Open the source page yourself, then decide whether the privacy settings, profile text, links or the account itself need attention. |
| likely match | A plausible match, usually from a public link or a username you use elsewhere. It may well be yours. It is not proof. | Open it and look for details you recognise before you treat it as yours. |
| needs your check | A weaker match — a common username, a hint from the part of an email address before the @, or a page that needs a person to look. | Treat it as something to look at, nothing more. Don’t accuse anyone, contact anyone, or change anything on the strength of this label alone. |
| could not check | A login wall, a “prove you’re human” check, a block page or a rate limit stopped us — or there simply wasn’t enough public information to judge. | Please don’t try to get around a block. If it matters, have a look in your own browser. |
| not relevant | The page seems to be missing, unrelated, or not useful as evidence. These are kept out of the main report by default. | Usually nothing. Keep it only if you look and find we got it wrong. |
| hint you provided | A username, nickname or email hint that came from your own form, kept for context and for any future check. | Nothing to do. It records what we were allowed to search with. |
Your review
| What the report says | What it means | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| not reviewed yet | Nobody has made a decision about this item. Most items stay here until you tell us what you think. | Open the source link and decide: yours, not yours, or not sure. |
| confirmed as yours after review | A person has recorded that this one is yours. This is the only place the word “confirmed” is used. | Treat it as part of your footprint and act accordingly. |
| ruled out after review | A person has recorded that this one is not yours. | Nothing. It stays out of your report. |
| hidden from this report after review | You asked for it to be left out. | Nothing. It won’t appear in any future copy. |
To change any of these, email [email protected] with your request number and, for each item, its number and your decision.
What the sections are for
- What we found is the list of individual items. Read the label, the source link and the suggested next step together.
- The map shows how the profiles you gave us, the usernames, the pages and the findings connect. A line means “worth a look”, not “this proves identity”.
- The timeline shows when each check happened. It records the order we worked in — not when anyone used an account.
- Source links open the public page behind a finding. Pages change, disappear, block automated checks, or turn out to belong to someone else.
- Optional privacy notes are suggestions only if you want to reduce what is public. Start with the items a person has confirmed, then the ones you can check yourself.
Doing this safely
Please don’t
- Delete an account, change a profile, remove content or report a page before you have looked at it yourself.
- Mislead anyone, pretend to be someone else, trick a platform, or try to get past a login, a “prove you’re human” check or a block.
- Use your report to harass, intimidate, dox, stalk, look someone up, screen a job applicant, or keep watch on anyone.
- Act alone if the situation involves a child, a threat, domestic abuse, or a legal question. Please get help from someone qualified first.
- Go outside what you are allowed to review — your own accounts, or an adult who has agreed.