LinkedIn headshots are the best raw material on this list. They are front-facing, evenly lit, deliberately clear and rarely filtered — which is exactly what a face signature wants. Matches sourced from LinkedIn tend to score higher than matches from anywhere else, and that cuts both ways: it also makes fake profiles easier to catch.
This is the most financially useful page here. Fake recruiter and investor profiles are a mature industry, and almost all of them are wearing a face that belongs to somebody else.
Your photo stays on your device until you press search, and only the square you framed is sent. Checking the photo is free — you'll see the plans before anything is searched or charged. By continuing you confirm you have a lawful reason to look this person up.
Run the headshot. Three outcomes matter. It traces to a stock photography library — that is a fake, full stop. It traces to a completely different named person on other sites — also a fake, and now you know whose face they stole. Or it traces to the same person under the same name on a company site, a conference bio and a news piece — that is a real professional with a real history.
A polished corporate headshot that appears nowhere else on the internet is unusual. Real professionals accumulate a trail: a company bio, a panel listing, a press mention, an old profile. A face with a single appearance and no past is either brand new or generated, and for someone claiming fifteen years of experience, that's worth a second look.
The other common search here is people running their own headshot to find out where their professional photo has ended up. It is not rare to find your face on a company you never worked for, a service you never endorsed, or a profile you never made.
It gives you the strongest single piece of evidence: whether the face has a history, and whether that history matches the name on the profile. It cannot read the profile's claims — you still have to check that the company and the role exist.
No. If LinkedIn doesn't serve the photo publicly, it never reaches an index. We see exactly what any signed-out visitor sees, and nothing more.
We don't scrape LinkedIn and you aren't automating anything on it — you're searching an index of public images. What you do afterwards is subject to LinkedIn's rules and to ours, which is where the ban on using this for hiring decisions applies.
One search covers all of them at once — the platform pages just explain what to expect from each. Start from a photo and you'll get matches from everywhere the face appears.
LinkedIn is a trademark of its owner. ARGUS is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to it, and searches only images that are already publicly accessible on the open web.