Find out the PTS number by car number, how to find the owner of the car?

Why can't you just punch the owner in the car?

Because you are trying to identify a person’s personal data, and they are protected by law (by the same name, by the way). The vehicle owner’s data is stored in the traffic police database and is not subject to disclosure. The traffic police officers themselves can request the owner’s data, but within the framework of official authority (clause 6.4 of the Administrative Regulations), but they do not have the right to distribute it just like that at your request (written official or oral on the road).

Therefore, you will not be able to obtain the following information:

trying to find out the owner through an online request on the official website of the traffic police for any reason,
through a traffic police inspector on the road, simply stating the car’s license plate number, VIN or any other data,
not in any Internet service - for 2021, the maximum you can get is data about the car itself and its photographs at best,
by any other legal means.

The best paid method is AVinfo

The service is represented by a website, a Telegram bot and browser extensions and allows you to obtain certain information on the license plate number of the car.

It’s just that you are unlikely to find out the address, number and other personal data of the owner, but often a phone number is indicated, and there will also be a large range of information in the “Registration History” report, where you can find the main thing - the owner’s full name ( in rare cases, this data may not be be ), which will significantly simplify the search process further through social networks, for example.

Here is an example of this report from the official AVinfo website:

Information with photographs of the car will also be valuable - in many cases it will be possible to identify the place where it is parked, and the likelihood that this is a parking lot near the house where the owner of the car lives is quite high. But not all cars in the Avinfo report are presented with photographs, which complicates the task.

Important! Recently there have been problems when paying by phone. When requesting a report in this way, information about the absence of payment data may be provided. Therefore, it is better not to use this payment method.

The car inspection service is paid. One check costs 150 rubles (you need to order one full report to obtain information about the owners of the vehicle). You can also order unlimited access packages.

Instructions for obtaining owner data online

First of all, you will need the Telegram application; you can download it on any phone operating system.
Next, enter @AvinfoBot in the search bar and add the Avinfo bot.
Write a message to the bot “/reg” and register - you will be required to enter an SMS message to confirm your phone number.
Next, write a message in the form of the license plate number, the owner of the car with which you want to find out, in the format “X000XX000” (the first letter of the number, 3 digits of the number, 2 more letters and the region).
As a result of the request, you will be given information and, if there is a photograph, a list of available reports. You need to select “Full AVinfo Report”.
You will need to pay for the report (you need to select the “Pay 1 report”) option. To pay, you will be redirected to the website av100.ru.
As a result, you will receive a report that should include the registration history of the car and its current owner.

Another paid way

A similar service, which with the same degree of probability will give out the phone number and last name, first name and patronymic of the owner of the car according to its license plate number, is Avtobot.net. But, unlike the above, this service is presented only by a website.

Why did we bring him? It can also show the contact information of the car owner by number, but it uses a different database than Avinfo, so there is also a chance of finding a person here if you unsuccessfully tried to do this in the previous service.

Other ways to find out the car owner's details

If inspectors do not see any reason to disclose the data of the owner of a particular vehicle, then it is useless and dangerous to put pressure on them, because they are on duty, and for threatening an employee or attempting to give a bribe you can get a real prison sentence. Therefore, those who want to obtain confidential information use other methods:

buy stolen traffic police databases;
turn to an intermediary;
They use the services of various sites that offer to provide the necessary data for a small fee.

Purchase of traffic police databases

You can buy such databases both online and through friends, but there is a high probability that they will turn out to be very outdated, and they will charge a lot for them. In addition, it is quite difficult to find a person who dares to sell such databases, because if information about the transaction becomes known to the prosecutor’s office, the internal security service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the FSB, then a lot of questions will arise for the seller.

Contacting an intermediary

Another option is to contact an intermediary who has connections with inspectors of the State Road Safety Inspectorate. However, requesting such information without compelling reasons is a violation of the law, so you may find yourself one of the defendants in a criminal case for bribery or abuse of power. In addition, you still need to find such an intermediary, and also make sure that he is not a fraudster.

Searching for information on sites

When you need to find information on the owner of the car, and other methods have not helped, you can try searching using various sites. To do this, just type in a search engine the phrase “find the owner of a car by license plate number” and the search engine will return several addresses of sites that provide such services. Some of them offer information for free, while others require a small reward of 200–500 rubles for this.

In most cases, sites that require payment work with outdated traffic police databases, so the likelihood of accurately identifying the owner of the car is low. Free sites require a phone number or other personal information, which they then pass on to their owners. After using such a site, various advertisements begin to arrive en masse to the specified phone number or some personal data. In addition, there is a high probability that a site with a free search for the owner by car number will infect your computer, smartphone or tablet with viruses that steal information or disrupt the operation of the device.

Conclusion

The only safe and reliable way to obtain information about the owner of a car is to contact the traffic police, for which you need a compelling reason. All other methods are either ineffective or dangerous.

The best free, but difficult - traffic police

So, it is possible to identify a person by his car almost 100%, but this method will require material damage and illegal actions from you.

We are talking about an administrative investigation, and, of course, you do not yet understand what we are talking about. But in fact, everything is quite simple!

You can find the owner of a car by number if you and the car with this number appear in an administrative case. To be more precise, within the framework of an administrative investigation. The basis for its initiation is the presence of an administrative offense.

169. The basis for issuing a determination to initiate a case of an administrative offense and conduct an administrative investigation is the identification of an administrative offense in the field of road traffic, during the proceedings on which an examination or other procedural actions are carried out that require significant time costs.

Thus, we need the desired owner of the car to have violated something. Then, based on your complaint about such a violation, an administrative investigation will be initiated against him or her.

But this is not enough - you will not be allowed to find out the details of the owner of the car, since you are not a participant in the case. But you may have the status of a victim, and then, on the basis of Article 25.2 of the Administrative Code, you have the right to get acquainted with all the materials of the case (at the traffic police department where the case is being conducted, upon request). And in the case materials, as part of the administrative investigation, the first step is to establish the owner of the car on which the offense was committed.

That is, it is easy to find out the owner by car number in 2021 if you and the person you are looking for are participants in the same business. Moreover, it doesn’t matter who is the culprit and who is the victim, both persons have the right to get acquainted with the case materials, which include the owner of the car (the culprit has the right to get acquainted on the basis of Article 25.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

Of course, deliberately ramming a car or making a fake accident in order to find out its owner is unreasonable, illegal and expensive (the insurance company under compulsory motor liability insurance will pay the victim, but if the damage was caused intentionally, it will issue recourse to the culprit). That is why we indicated at the beginning of the article that this method, although almost 100% working, is expensive and complex.

In fact, there is a much simpler way. The same conditions, the same accident, but... in the Administrative Code there is no liability for false denunciation. The main thing is that the information in your denunciation does not constitute grounds for initiating a criminal case.

To summarize, the step-by-step instructions for obtaining information about the owner of the car will look like this:

as part of an accident, one of the participants (the victim or the culprit) reports this event (moreover, it is illegal to falsify it, but there is no punishment for this),
A traffic police officer is obliged to initiate an administrative investigation if there is information about a possible violation (your denunciation),
As part of this investigation, the first step is to find out the identities of the participants in the accident, if they are unknown,
You, as a victim or potential culprit, have the right to familiarize yourself with the case materials, which include the owner of the car.

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We are trying to contact him in an official way.

By sending a message through the registrar, you can find out the person’s current email, last name/first name, contact phone number and IP address, which will help to fully identify his personality (see article 15 tricks for collecting information about a person on the Internet).

The result depends on luck. It is unknown whether a person checks the email that he specified when registering a domain and how reliable the data he provided is. Your social engineering skills are also important. You can offer investments, introduce yourself as Yuri Milner’s assistant :-), convince them that they definitely need to call by phone or Skype, ask about the possibility of a personal meeting. The main thing is to convince the person that fate has given him a real chance to earn money and to beg for as much data as possible that can be used in further exploration.

It is advisable to add the phrase: “Please let me know that you are not interested in the offer.” This increases the chance that a person will drop a few lines out of politeness, exposing his email, name and IP address.

It is also worth writing to all previous owners of the domain, asking for the contacts of those people to whom they transferred it. If you’re lucky, the answer will be: “I sold it to Vasya N, his phone number is +791612345...”. But, unfortunately, people are often secretive. But they are also often polite and write back: “Sorry, but I can’t share this information.” And this is already in our favor.

Knowing the email of the former owner (and his nickname), you can find his advertisement for the sale of a site/domain on a specialized forum and a list of users who responded to it. From these, you can create a circle of possible current domain owners.

Other methods to find out the owner by car license plate number

Other methods to break a person through the state. his car number is much less effective, because, as we noted above, this is personal data, and it is difficult to obtain it legally. However, let's list a number of possible methods known for 2021.

Ask a traffic police inspector

The probability of success is negligible, but not zero, especially if this same inspector knows you personally. Yes, police officers are prohibited from disclosing personal data of citizens, including full names, addresses and telephone numbers of people along with related information about them, including car details. But this does not mean that the inspector will refuse you in any case.

In practice, employees very rarely comply with such a request. But you need to ask for it very politely and carefully. In addition, your good intentions are important. If you tell an employee, for example, that you need to punch a person in order to inflict physical beatings on him, then, obviously, the probability of refusal will increase to 100%. And then an administrative or even criminal case may be brought against you.

Internet sites

Another practically unworkable method. There are a number of resources on the Internet that collect databases of people by license plate numbers. Typically, information is collected in two ways:

information about the numbers and their owners is taken from an existing database (the same AVinfo, for example),
users themselves add such information along with complaints about dangerous driving or boorish behavior of drivers.

Why is this not a working method?! Because the likelihood that you will be able to find out the owner by the car number using this method in 2021 tends to zero. The maximum you can find is a photo of a car parked in the yard of the house.

Portal of judicial acts

This method is suitable for cars whose drivers were involved in legal proceedings. It consists of searching to see if the car’s license plate number is listed in the database of judicial acts of the Russian Federation – Sudact.ru.

However, it was not for nothing that we placed it last. This method, although free, is ineffective. The fact is that for a successful search, two factors need to coincide at once:

the person you are looking for has been involved in at least one lawsuit involving a vehicle with a current license plate,
This number is not hidden when posting a decision, ruling or ruling of the court.

And it is precisely the second factor that makes this method ineffective, since most court decisions are posted with hidden registration plates of the car. But suddenly you get lucky!

How to find out the passport details of the car owner by title

Traffic police The algorithm for checking PTS through the traffic police website is as follows: Step 1. Go to the website https://www.gibdd.ru/ Step 2. In the right column, find the “Online services” section.

Next, you need to click on the “Vehicle Check” button. Step 3. Enter the necessary information about the car. Typically you need to enter:

state number
VIN code
body number

Step 4. Obtaining information. Sometimes the system slows down for a while - you need to wait. What information can you find out about the PTS online? Through the traffic police website, in addition to information about fines, you can also get:

all data from PTS
is the car seized?
Are there any restrictions on this car (ban on registration)
Is this car wanted?
information on accidents involving this car

It is extremely important to check this information on the PTS when purchasing a car. If you buy a car on credit, the title remains with the bank. In the case of purchasing a used car from the owner, this document is not immediately disclosed. The owner does not show it for some reason. In both cases, you need to check the vehicle’s registration certificate for legal and functional “purity”. To find such information you may need: a unique vehicle number (VIN), vehicle license plate number (registration plates).

As soon as the motorist has any of this, the verification of the document, the car and its owner will immediately be successful. Let us consider in more detail how such checks are carried out today.

Why you need to know Anyone who is wondering how to find out the PTS number by car number for free should immediately understand why this is being done.