Friday 2 September 2011

An Easy Background Check You Can Use To Find Out Anyone's Past

By Glen Pearson


If you have a need to learn more about what may be in someone's past, then you have probably thought of doing a background check on that person. A background check can reveal a lot of information about a person's history.

It once was that you would have to hire a private investigator in order to get a background check on someone. However, the internet has made the process much more convenient as you can run a background check on anyone from your own desk.

A background check may be done for any number of reasons. Employers may check into the background of prospective hires; you may also be curious about your aunt's new boyfriend.

A lot of people even run a background check on themselves, simply to see if the information which comes up is correct. If you find errors in this report, you will also be given contact information which will help you get in touch with the right people to correct these errors.

There are plenty of companies which provide this service through their websites. They maintain large databases of information and documents which can be searched.

Background checks generally can find information about the following: credit history, criminal record, prior addresses, marriages and other records. A background check can reveal much of a person's life story.

These services do come with a cost however. There is typically a small fee charged per background check. Before you pay for a background check, you can try something else for free.

You can try looking the person up on Google before going to a fee based background check service. Search for their name in quotes, followed by the city they live in e.g. "John Q Public" Toledo. You kmay find some information.

More likely though, you won't find anything, at least not any useful information. Especially if the person has a common name, you might get thousands of hits for others with the same name. You will also probably not find any detailed information. However, since it's free, Google is still worth a try here.

If a Google search fails to turn up the information you want, then you can go to a background check company instead. You should look for one which offers a money back guarantee so that if they fail to turn anything up, you won't have to pay.

The other tip is to find a company that charges a one-time membership fee for full access to their database and unlimited searches. This will let you pull-up as many background reports on as many people you want without having to pay for each search. You pay just the one-time.

An online background check is simple, can turn up the information you need and makes you feel like a detective; all without leaving your chair!




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