Beware of "Online" Background Check Scams!
Backgound Checks!
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Whether it's a date, a potential employee, or a live-in nanny, we want to be sure they're telling the truth. A quick search on Google reveals hundreds of "background check" services. But how does one know which service to use? Our investigators spent a full month testing and reviewing dozens of services to find out.
To test each service, we ran background checks on people with known criminal and civil records, including bankruptcies. This allowed us to easily verify the accuracy of all results. We checked on people of different ages with diverse backgrounds, residing in all 50 states. We (incidentally) were not surprised at what we found.
The vast majority of "background check" services simply don't deliver the information they promise. In almost all cases, the results sold to us were outdated, incorrect, or nothing more than data from local phone books! All of this despite widely advertised claims of current criminal and civil records.