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Keep yourself safe online & in-person.

Get Garbo's in-depth guide to gain the knowledge, tools, and strategies to help identify potential bad actors and protect yourself in the digital age.

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WHO SHOULD READ GARBO'S GUIDE?

We've worked to make this guide universally helpful to anyone who uses online platforms to help you understand if you should trust someone with your safety.

Online Dating
Users

Know how to validate someone's identity on dating apps

University Students
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Learn how to search other students and professors

Online Marketplace
Users

Before you meet, know how to do research on someone to help protect yourself

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

Social Media
Users

From online gaming to social media, make sure you know who you're really talking to

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

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Our Partners

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

What's Inside the Guide

Garbo is the easiest, fastest, and most affordable online background check that focuses on the reporting of violent and harmful behavior.

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.

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.

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.

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

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