---
title: "Sock Puppets"
description: "Essential cheatsheet on creating and managing Sock Puppets (fake identities) for ethical security research and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), focusing on maintaining separation from personal data and bypassing common verification."
tags: ["osint", "sock-puppets"]
publishDate: 2026-05-03
---

Sock puppets are fake identities use to gather information from a target.
The sock puppet should have no link between your personal information and the fakes ones. (No ip address, mail, follow, etc..)

## Information generation

<a href="https://fakerjs.dev" class="link-card not-prose" target="_blank">
  <span>
    <h4>Faker</h4>
    <p>Generate massive amounts of fake data</p>
  </span>
</a>

<a href="https://fakenamegenerator.com/" class="link-card not-prose" target="_blank">
  <span>
    <h4>Fake Name</h4>
    <p>Personal informations</p>
  </span>
</a>

<a href="https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/" class="link-card not-prose" target="_blank">
  <span>
    <h4>This Person Does Not Exist</h4>
    <p>Generate fake image</p>
  </span>
</a>

## Bypass phone verification

<a href="https://www.smspool.net/" class="link-card not-prose" target="_blank">
  <span>
    <h4>SMSPool</h4>
    <p>Cheapest and Fastest Online SMS verification</p>
  </span>
</a>

<a href="https://receive-sms-online.info" class="link-card not-prose" target="_blank">
  <span>
    <h4>Receive Sms Online</h4>
    <p>Free SMS verification</p>
  </span>
</a>

<a href="https://receivefreesms.net" class="link-card not-prose" target="_blank">
  <span>
    <h4>Receive Free Sms</h4>
    <p>Free SMS verification</p>
  </span>
</a>

<a href="https://receive-smss.com" class="link-card not-prose" target="_blank">
  <span>
    <h4>Receive Free Sms</h4>
    <p>Free SMS verification</p>
  </span>
</a>

<a href="https://onlinesim.io/" class="link-card not-prose" target="_blank">
  <span>
    <h4>Online Sim</h4>
    <p>SMS verification with free tier</p>
  </span>
</a>

<a href="https://sms4stats.com/" class="link-card not-prose" target="_blank">
  <span>
    <h4>Sms 4 Sats</h4>
    <p>Paid SMS verification</p>
  </span>
</a>

<a href="http://sms4sat6y7lkq4vscloomatwyj33cfeddukkvujo2hkdqtmyi465spid.onion" class="link-card not-prose" target="_blank">
  <span>
    <h4>Sms 4 Sats (Onion)</h4>
    <p>Paid SMS verification. Tor version</p>
  </span>
</a>