Big brother activity on BP is on the raise

Many of our members have been using SmartForm on their BP ads. The most powerful thing about SmartForm is its ability to sniff the client’s machine for activities even when he doesn’t make any appointments. Having our form on BP, we are able to know which areas’ ads have been recently viewed heavily by unwelcome people.

If you are a user who depends on BP or similar sites, please add SmartForm on your ad as an extra way for clients to communicate. When a suspected client goes to your ad, you will get a notice from our system.

Online Dating Sites may start background checking on their members

Many of VerifyHim members, while checking on their clients, find out that quite of a number of the clients have memberships at online dating sites like Match.com, True and eHarmony.  A recent lawsuit against Match.com (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/04/19/match.rape.lawsuit/) may push many online sites to start doing background checks on their members.

While it is not a substitute for our own screening, having other sites conduct criminal background check on our clients is always a positive development. At this point, Match.com and eHarmony begin to check their members against the sexual offender database. True.com is the only site that conducts criminal background checks and a marriage checks on their members. It’s good to know that your potential client also has an active profile at True.com

People Search / Reverse Phone Search

Public data has been heavily used by debt collectors and skip tracers to locate people. This section will shed light on how providers can utilize public databases to identify and screen a potential client.

If the clients give you his full name, that would be a great start. However some clients in certain states don’t want to give that much info except their first name and phone number.  The rule of screening is the more info you can get from them, the more accurate searches you can do.  Knowing their age and the zip code where they live can be great help as well.

Let say the client only gives you his first name “Charlie” and his phone number “987-654-4321”. In this case, we are forced to lookup his name through his phone. If the phone is a home phone, there are high changes we are able to get his full name and address.  Cell phone, however, has a much lower rate of useful info.  Most of the time, we only get the full name of the cell phone owner.

There are many reverse phone look-up services out there; both free and commercial:

•          Whitepages.com (Free, good for home phone)
•          Intellius.com  (the most popular, pay-per-search)
•          Spokeo/PeopleSmart (good for home phone, low results with cell phone)
•          VerifyHim (SIMPLY  the best ;-)

Assuming there are no addresses attached to his phone number (this is the most popular case). Here are the results after running a search on Charlie’s number at VerifyHim:
Charlie Sheen, Concord, CA 94521
Alex Sheen, Concord, CA 94521
CHARLIE SHEEN
Realtime Phone Carrier Lookup:
Phone number: +19876544321
Status : OK
Is Wireless Phone : y
Carrier : Virgin Mobile
Carrier ID : 50021
SMS Email Address : 9876544321@vmobl.com
MMS Email Address : 9876544321@vmobl.com

We find out that his cell phone is Virgin Mobile. Remember that cell phone usually doesn’t have an address attached to the number. The phone is registered under Charlie Sheen (“no not that one!”).
 
We also know that he is located in CA. If you want to guess what part of California he is from, using the phone area code (‘987’) and look it up on http://www22.verizon.com/areacodes/. It will tell you the cities belong to that area code.

TIP: If the look-up name doesn’t match the full name he gave you, it can be considered as a flag. You should ask for more info and screen through other methods.

Interesting Fact: About 15% phone numbers ran through VerifyHim are belong to girls with the same last name as the clients.
 
Now we know his full name and the city where he is from. You can go out and pay any people search service out there to locate him (Intellius, PeopleSmart…). If you use VerifyHim or any other services, you will see a list of possible candidates on your search. With VerifyHim, the list will contains his DOB, past and current addresses, associated businesses and relatives. Knowing the zip code, DOB or age of the person will help you identify the targeted person in the list. If your client name is not John Smith and unique enough, the list is usually short. You can verify some of the info from the search with him if needed.
 
Criminal Background Check
 
You can also conduct a criminal search using public databases as well.  Criminal data usually divided into 3 different categories:

• Searching sexual offender database is always free. You can Google for free sites or use a government site like http://www.nsopw.gov/Core/Portal.aspx.

• State criminal database which usually includes only serious offenses and not up-to-date.  This database is usually 1 to 5 years old and doesn’t offer many details. The popular Netdetective, Been-verified and other unlimited-search checking sites are using this type of database as well as many cheap background checking services (usually less than $7 per search) out there. VerifyHim has the state database covered for you in our search engine.

• Comprehensive criminal background check is a bit more expensive and required you to know the DOB of the person. This type of check give you access to up-to-date records down to the county level. The cost is usually around $25-$125 per search depending how deep the search will go).

 
Using VerifyHim’s People Tracer
 
People Tracer is a new experimental tool we have been offering to our members during the last 2 months. It is a public database searching tool on steroid. With its flexible searching ability, you can answer questions like “Who has lived in an address?” (A good way to verify a driver license) or “Has Charlie Sheen lived in a zip code?” or any other unique situations.
 
It works similar to tools available to PIs, you can narrow your target easily to get a detailed report. The detailed report will include his DOB, past and current addresses as well as his phone numbers. In our opinion, People Tracer is the best tracing tool available out there compared to other people search sites that we know. Don’t take our words for it, try it!
 
Please submit your incident info to VerifyHim and others

Membership at VerifyHim is free. If you are a low volume user, you don’t have to pay anything. Our community is growing strong because members have been sending a lot of bad client info to us. We are the most serious provider-only screening sites out there that go beyond blacklisting. Please submit any incident info to us. Sharing info of bad clients is one way to keep each other safe. Here are other blacklist-only sites that you also can submit incidents to:

• National Blacklist: A great site. Their database is indexed by Google.  The site is proud of that fact as well. I personally think it is good for submitting serious incidents. VerifyHim’s database is not indexed by search engines.
• ProviderBuzz: A popular site but you can’t post bad things about P411 clients with their IDs (Posting Date-check IDs are fine). At VerifyHim, as long as your claim is legit and not contested by other members, you can post whatever that can help others identify the abuser.
• Dz411: Great site and you can post pretty much anything. The site is just a little bit hard to navigate.
• Some other sites: http://blacklistednow.blogspot.com/, http://badboyclientlist.blogspot.com/ (Don’t know much about these blogs but it has blacklist records as well)