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- Q.
- What is BackgroundCheckGateway.com
and how does it work?
- A.
- It's a free site which makes
it easy to perform background checks. Simply click on "Step 1" on the homepage
for a quick overview of background checking. Or, if you prefer, go directly
to "Step 3" (Public Records Portal) to start doing a background check immediately.
No experience is needed to use this website.
- Q.
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Do you offer any fee-based background checks?
- A.
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Yes, if you'd rather pay us to do your background
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check or pre-employment check, we offer
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E-Background Check and E-PreEmployment
Check.
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- Q.
- Isn't it considered an invasion
of privacy to do a background check on somebody?
- A.
- No, a typical background check
is conducted using public information. It's your right to use this type of
information to protect yourself. By the way, you're probably having backgrounds
run on you all the time without knowing it. Every time you apply for a credit
and/or an insurance policy or a job, you can bet that a background investigation,
including a credit check, is done on you.
- Q.
- What are the most common types
of backgrounds ordered by women who are checking out their "significant others"?
- A.
- Probably the most common is the
pre-marital check -- a woman asks for a discrete check on her fiancé,
just to be sure she knows who she's marrying. Also very common, and getting
more so, are requests for backgrounds on dates or potential dates. Today,
many people meet potential mates via the Internet or in some other highly
impersonal way, and it's only prudent to want to know something about the
person's background before becoming involved with him. Less frequent but a
fast-growing trend is parents seeking backgrounds on their daughter's new
boyfriend.
Still another source of demand
for this type of check -- and this one is not so new -- is the married woman
who discovers or suspects her husband may be someone different from the man
she thought she married (e.g., an alcoholic, drug user, or criminal), and
either for her own information or in preparation for a divorce proceeding,
she orders or performs a background investigation of her spouse.
This type of background check,
incidentally, is confidential -- the subject ordinarily does not know he's
been investigated.
- Q.
- Is it possible to check to find
out if someone is a carrier of a sexually-transmitted disease? Or a womanizer?
Or a bigamist? Or an adulterer?
- A. Indications of any of these
situations may be uncovered in public records. For example, a criminal records
check may show prior arrests for sexually-related offenses. Or for bigamy
or for fraud involving a former girlfriend. Similar indications may turn up
in civil records, such as in divorce proceedings. Often, however, questions
regarding an individual's personal character can only be answered through
personal surveillance and/or by interviewing his friends and associates; this
is what private detectives do for a living.
As to health-related matters,
in general, these involve access to private information (e.g., medical records)
which cannot be done without the individual's permission. Again, however,
a private detective may be able to help in some situations.
- Q.
- I notice there are a lot of sites
on the Internet offering background information for a fee. Why not just use
these instead of BackgroundCheckGateway.com?
- A.
- Bad idea! Most such sites use
outdated or incomplete databases. You're asked to enter your subject's name,
address, and possibly social security number on a standardized form, then
that information is run through compiled public-records databases looking
for matches. That would be fine if the databases were complete and up-to-date,
but usually they're not. If you want to be sure you're getting reliable results,
you need to go to the primary public records sources yourself (such as county
courthouses) via BackgroundCheckGateway.com, or else hire a reputable information
professional to do the searches for you. Don't rely on "off-the-shelf" background
checks!
- Q.
- If I use BackgroundCheckGateway.com
regularly, will I become a pro at doing background investigations?
- A.
- Believe it or not, you may. Background
checks are not difficult, especially once you become familiar with the information
sources and how to access them. Checking backgrounds is very much a case of
learning-by-doing. Once you've done a few, it will become relatively easy
to check out just about anybody. A good strategy: start by running a background
check on yourself and/or your spouse for practice, using BackgroundCheckGateway.com's
simple step-by-step process.
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