Author RSSID Authentication Must Precede Background Checks
A recent incident at a North Carolina Liberty Tax franchise indicates that consumers should use discretion when hiring a paid professional to prepare their tax return. A tax preparer temporarily hired during the busy tax season was arrested after she forg...
No Mere Background Checks for Society's Finest
Police and fire departments have a reputation of employing society's finest men and women. These civil servants are held up to the highest standards taxpayers have come to expect, especially in emergency situations. That is the reason behind the multiple ...
I Found the Mother of a Lost Child with a Cell Phone Lookup
The little girl was maybe five years old, and she was crying when she walked into my store. I have a small store in a busy shopping mall, two doors down from a large department store. It was hard for her to talk because of all the tears. By the time she'd...
Cell Phone Lookup Reconnects High School Best Friends
When best friends Sandy and Emma were still in grammar school, they pinky-swore to each other to never drift apart. Regardless of where life was going to take each of them, they intended to stay in touch and always know each other's whereabouts and contac...
Move Over, Phone Books, It's the Age of the Cell Phone Directory!
The public debate about the abolition of routine phone book dumping is heating up. I had no idea people are so angry about it. They are, in fact, so angry that some states are beginning to consider new legislature to prevent the unnecessary tree-killing a...
Cell Phone Lookup, Thanks for Making My Day Easier!
If there is one thing one can count on in this uncertain world, it's the cell phone lookup. Here's the deal: my sister is moving back to the Estados Unidos from Panama. Yeah, she's been trying her hand at making a fresh start halfway across the world, but...
Reverse Phone Lookup Saves Mafia Bride
A close friend of mine, Irina, had almost married into the mafia. Honest to god. She met and started dating this guy named Tony, and everyone joked around about his last name secretly being Soprano. It was close enough, Sotorino, and Tony laughed at all t...
Never Trust a Babysitter Without a Background Check
Renesha Griner may be only 17, but she is known to be responsible and trustworthy. She has been babysitting nine-month-old Saniya Purcell almost since birth, and the two really loved each other. Saniya's mother has known Renesha and her family well - they...
Use Reverse Phone Lookup to Find Missing People
There is no question that cell phones have made detective work a lot easier, often providing material evidence where it never would have surfaced before. For example, whenever a missing persons report is filed, the obvious first thing law enforcement must...
Successful Missing People Search May Still Save Boy's Life
The nation watches as Minnesota mother Colleen Hauser and her 13-year-old son Daniel who has Hodgkin's lymphoma, continue running from authorities. There is a warrant out for her arrest and she's been found in contempt of court. The Housers are refusing t...
People Search Guru Strikes Again
I live to find people. Somehow new opportunities to find people seem to find me all the time. Case in point: my stepdad and his family. His son from a previous marriage has never wanted a relationship with his father, although one would be hard-pressed to...
Try 'A Child is Missing' if You Need to Find People
The new nationwide alert program, A Child is Missing, uses the not-so-new technology of the Reverse 911 system, also known as the Amber Alert, to find people who have gone missing. Although initially used to locate missing children, the service quickly ex...
Helping with Your People Search
I just saw a blog entry online, a kind of "missing persons" ad that puzzled me. A family in West Virginia is offering a $5000 reward for help provided in connection with their people search. Apparently, they are looking for a local mother and daughter who...
How to Find People
I just started a new book. Here's what's happened so far: A lone stranger with a suitcase comes into town and before boarding his Greyhound bus, stops at a small-town shop. The shop owner reads his cards and sees death. He walks out of her shop, leaving h...
Trust in Public Records
There is a woman in Washington State who was married to two men. Two! My hat goes off to her, because here I can't make a marriage work with one man, and she managed to stay married to two for five years! Must be all the breaks she took while traveling fr...