Same rabbit hole – I once spotted a “”handmade candle”” shop on Instagram that had the exact same handle on Etsy, Pinterest, and TikTok but with totally different product photos on each. Classic reused identity trick.
Here’s the thing though – people rarely change their usernames across platforms, so that consistency actually makes them traceable. Tools like find a person by name with GEOfinder let you search a handle and see where else it pops up. I used it to cross-check a suspicious freelancer once — same username showed up on three platforms under completely different “”businesses.”” Whole thing unraveled pretty fast after that.