Do You Need a Free Background Check?

Is there a way to run a free background check?

So the most frequent question I get asked is, “How do I run a background check for free?”.  My response has always been, “It is not possible”.  And that has been the truth… until now.  Under normal circumstances, background checks cannot possibly be free and I would advise everyone to be extremely skeptical and suspicious of any site advertising any type of background check for “free”.  Most everyone who asks me about free background checks tells me that they have seen them advertised all over the internet but when they follow the link, they are required to pay.  It is frustrating to see how many dishonest advertisers there are out there just trying to lure you in with false promises of a free product that does not exist!

So how is what I am about to tell you any different from all those other advertisements? 

How to Run a Background Check on your Nanny

For so many of us, it is an unfortunate reality that we cannot be with our children as much as we might wish.  Life demands so much of us and the need to keep our children safe and cared for often forces us to trust others with that care.  I am intimately aware of the worry that constantly eats away at you when someone else is caring for your child… especially when that child is too young to tell you about how things are with their caretaker.  You do all you can to ensure that you hire someone who will be kind and caring.  But how can you truly know who that person is?  What do they act like when you are away?  Is there anything in their past that, if you were to know about it, would keep you from hiring them?

How To Run A Background Check On Summer Camp Employees

It’s that time of year again…  When we send our young ones off to summer camps so we can get a mini summer break for ourselves.. oh, and so they can learn new things and make new friends as well!  Some of my fondest memories from childhood surround those few weeks I would spend at various camps.  Unfortunately, I also remember some pretty scary camp employees!  We live in a time of uncertainty where it is becoming more and more difficult to trust those we charge with caring for our children.  In today’s world, it is very hard to feel totally at ease when sending your child to any summer camp, whether it lasts one day or even two weeks.  How do we keep our children safe when they are away?

How to Run a Background Check on Your Child’s Teacher

We live in a time of uncertainty where it is becoming more and more difficult to trust those we charge with caring for our children.  When I first considered utilizing online background check services to ensure the safety of my daughter, I felt a little nervous… Was this an invasion of that person’s privacy?  After much thought, I came to the conclusion that my daughter’s safety is more important than anything and outweighs all other factors.  Plus, all a background check service does is search databases full of public record information… stuff we have a legal right to know!  It’s not like you are hiring a private investigator to take pictures of them or dig through their trash (both of those are legal but start to cross my personal boundary into creepiness).

Reverse Email Lookup: CompleteReviews.net Recommended Sites

Of all the public record search products, reverse email lookup is one of the most difficult to find.  Not many companies offer this service and to be honest, the results success rate is lower than with other products.  The reason is that so many companies like Yahoo and Google allow users to easily create email accounts based on phony credentials.  But that is no cause for concern as the reverse email lookup sites recommended by CompleteReviews.net have a “No Hit, No Pay” policy.

The Truth About Public Record Searching…

Public Records Searches have become a huge online business. It honestly scares me how much information anyone can find about me with only a few minutes of time and a web browser. Of course, that goes both ways. There are so many different reasons why a Public Records Search can come in handy or even downright necessary. For example, they can be extremely helpful when trying to protect your children.

Even though the source of all the data is the same, the products and services that access that data are very different. Prior to ever spending any money on a public records search services, it is important to know how they compare and which ones are real products versus scams. Review sites are a must as they independently rank the best public records search services. I recommend http://www.CompleteReviews.net for detailed reviews of all the top public records search services.

They break the public records search services into categories as there are so many different types of searches. They then rank the top three products in each of the following categories:

Unlimited Search services (the perfect solution for investigative parenting).
Bakground Check services.
Criminal Records searches.
Court Record Searches.
Social Security Number Record searches. (scary…)
Sex Offender Registry search services.
Reverse Phone Lookup services (a must have for anyone with a child who owns a cell phone).
Reverse eMail Lookup services (if your child is online, you need to check this out!)
Marriage Records search.
Divorce Records search.
Birth Records search.
Death Records search.
People Locator.
Commercial Grade Detective Products.
The most important thing to note is that you should never be tricked into paying for that which is easily accessible for free. Most public search records are by nature freely available. But that doesn’t mean they are easily accessible. And some of the records are not accessible at all without utilizing a paid service with access to the information.

Take Reverse Phone Lookups for example. You should rarely be charged for a landline phone number. The basic rule of thumb is that if it is listed in a phone book, you can find it for free. Services like http://www.whitepages.com and http://www.anywho.com are excellent resources. But how do you find the owner of an unlisted number or better yet, a cell phone? That is where Reverse Phone Lookups become essential. www.CompleteReviews.net/ ranks the top three best sites for these services.

Again, don’t get caught paying for easily accessible free services. Make sure the service is independently reviewed and rated and you will get what you pay for and more!

Reverse Phone Lookup

Reverse Phone Lookups have been a hot item for some time now. So many sites have popped up that offer to tell you exactly who owns a specific phone number. Are these searches a waste of money? Is it all a big scam? Yes and no…

First of all, we need to examine the difference between a Reverse Phone Lookup and Reverse Cell Phone Lookup. A good question to ask yourself is, “Can I likely find this phone number in a regular phone book?”. If the answer is “yes” then you should not be paying a service to report the owner of that phone number. All you need to do in this case is use any free phone listing service such as:

http://www.WhitePages.com

http://www.anywho.com

But if you are dealing with a cell phone or even an “unlisted” number, a paid service is the way to go. Again, however, there are many scams out there. I have seen some services that make you think they have results which you must pay to see only to find out that the results are incorrect or bogus. Of course, you cannot figure out how to get your money back.  I have done a lot of research and it is all includede on my review site for all Public Records Search www.CompleteReviews.net.

Being charged for a reverse phone lookup should never happen. Paying for an unlisted lookup or especially a cell phone is totally appropriate.

Can we protect our children from things we don’t understand?

How can we protect our kids from what we ourselves struggle to understand? This high tech world is changing so quickly it can be a daunting task just to try and keep up with the latest and greatest! Our kids, however, were born into this world and seem to have an inborn ability to adapt to and easily understand every new technology. Blogging, texting, surfing, social networking, etc. These are all amazing new technologies but they also provide new and creative ways for predators to go after our children. Investigative Parenting is the best way to protect them!

We must use “high tech” means to protect our children against “high tech” predators. Armed with just an email address or a cell phone number you can find out a ton about with whom your child is communicating. Public Records searches, Background Checks, Sex Offender Registry searches, Criminal Background checks and Reverse Phone Lookups are just a few of the available online services that exist to help us protect our children. The problem is that there are so many sites offering these types of services and many of them are honestly scams that have you pay for information you could get by simply “googling” the person’s name. Unbiased review sites offer the best option for finding the public records search site you need.

www.CompleteReviews.net contains all the latest reviews.  It is dedicated to the review of all the major Public Records Search sites. I use these services to ensure my child is safe. It gives me great peace of mind that I can privately check up on her friends parents or anyone she interacts with online. My daughter is worth every effort I make to watch out for her! You can easily become an Investigative Parent too!

Growing Concern Over the Safety of Cellphones for Children…

Quoted from http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/07/business/mobile08.php:

Growing concern over safety of cellphones for children – International Herald Tribune

The above article addresses parenting fears surrounding how cell phone use may have an adverse effect, through radio-frequency electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile telephones, on the developing brains and tissues of children.  Scary stuff if you ask me.

While all this may prove to be true, I am currently more concerned about the other dangers facing young children and even teens.  The dangers I am referring to have nothing to do with physical harm generated from actual use of the phone itself.  –Next thing you know, we will be telling little boys that if they “play” with their cell phones too much they will grown hair on their hands… or will it be hair on their phones?  Hah!  Of course, that would never work as every teen alive would love to have a hairy cell phone… their whole lives revolve around hair so bring it on!

The fear I have is with the vulnerability of younger children with these connections to the universe. At a minimum we must have full transparency into their phone usage. As investigative parents, we must know the identity of every single person on our child’s calling list.  If, with my daughter, I were to simply ask her to tell me the identity of everyone on her phone list, she would have one of those…well… whatever they are calling a “hissie fit” these days! 

So, instead of creating a rift in our trust-based relationship by asking her to tell me everything, I will take the higher road by “borrowing” my cell phone that I am lending to her and then use it to do some serious Investigative Parenting! 

I start with her phone’s contact list.  But the names associated to the numbers are jiji or molo or trev… not a great start!  So who is jiji and jolo?  Well, now we start getting serious.  You see, mommies and daddies are becoming just a little high tech too and we are starting to at least grasp this amorphous internet thing that is everywhere and nowhere….. yikes!  Back to high tech parental dominance!  Next we need to find the best reverse phone lookup site.  But we see thousands of different options and it is hard to be clear if there is a difference between a regular reverse phone lookup and a reverse cell phone lookup.

But wait… if there’s one thing we adults know how to do when high tech comes a knockin’  it’s to grab a print copy of our favorite paper, sit in our chair and refused to speak to anyone for 10 minutes while we regain our grasp on manhood!  No… we do the smart thing and that is allow others to do all the exhaustive research involved in finding the best reverse phone lookup sites which include cell phone registries. 

So off we go into the cloud that is the internet and we happen upon my favorite little Public Records Review site, www.CompleteReviews.net.   The great thing is they are totally dedicated to the public records search arena (huge marketplace!!!) so they have some in-depth knowledge to freely share with us.  We know we want reverse cell phone lookup so we hit their site and conveniently find 3 top rated and reviewed reverse cell phone lookup options.  Pricing appears to be very competitive with each product so we decide to go with the number one choice and even upgrade to their Unlimited plan for a year.  That means we can do all the reverse phone lookups we want for an entire year (and YES they do cover cell phone registries) for less than 40 dollars.  We pat ourselves on the back for our astute money saving tactics!

We are saved… or our children are saved I should say because we fought our fears, used our tools and spent a little time and money.  We did a little Investigative Parenting and it paid off.  Now I am totally sure that no 44 year old, 280 lb. man named Chucky has been calling my daughter pretending to be a cute little 12 year old girl from the next town over. We are relieved and at peace because we know that, at least now, her cell phone is the special tool it should be… letting her talk, talk, talk with her girlie friends for hours on end while we parents work, work, work so we can afford her cell phone bill!!!

God bless our kids and God bless us so we can protect them long enough so they can, one day, take care of us in our “feeble years”!  Maybe they will even give us a cell phone to use when we move back in with them.  They might have to just do some Investigative Parenting of their own then…

Investigative Parenting

In a world of anonymity, it is harder than ever to keep our children safe from unseen predators!  Computers and cell phones provide our children with high-speed connections to a host of people we cannot see or control.  Would you ever let your 12 year old girl go over to play at a 38 year old man’s house?  The thought is ridiculous!  And yet we purchase her a cell phone and a laptop. 

The internet is a universe of anonymity!  You can be anyone you want to be.  That is a scary thought for a parent of an online child!  So how do we protect them?  We cannot ban them from using the technology of our day just as we cannot truly monitor their use of said technology.  Sure we can install parental controls but that only blocks what they look at and not with whom they are communicating.

In order to keep our children safe, we must become Investigative Parents!  I came accross the  term Investigative Parenting just a few months ago and it has really stuck with me!  I have long been wrestling with how to protect my children in this new world we live in while still allowing them to experience life. 

Investigative parenting is the answer!  I will talk more about what that means in a moment but first let me say that it certainly does not replace our constant vigilance in what our children are doing online or on their cell phones (which is quickly becoming the same thing)!  We should always keep an eye on what our children are doing and with whom they are doing it.

Investigative parenting is a way to watch out for our children without their even being aware of it.  Public records services provide the perfect answer.  Did you know that, armed with only a cell phone number or even an email address, you can find out a ton of information about a person?  I have done a ton of research into the available services and now if you send me a cell phone number I will likely be able to tell you that person’s name, address (including step-by-step directions), if they own a home, how much their mortgage is, how much their second mortgage is, who their neighbors are, if they have ever been arrested, etc, etc. 

That is some powerful information.  Do you ever worry about the parents of your children’s friends?  Is it hard to send your child on a sleepover?  You can talk to the parents all you want but what does that really tell you?  Instead, you can spend less than 10 minutes and find out a world of information about them.  Sounds a bit creepy but honestly, my child’s safety is worth it.

Now, instead of worrying about who is calling my daughter’s cell phone, I just find out for myself.  Rather than worry about her friend’s parents, I do a little investigative parenting and find out all I need to know about them!  And the great thing is, my daughter doesn’t have to know anything which really helps our relationship… you know how kids are about their parents watching over their shoulder!

Anyway, I have spent a lot of time researching all the available public record services and have found a review site (www.CompleteReviews.net) in which the top available products in areas such as Reverse Phone Lookups, Reverse Cell Phone Lookups, Reverse eMail Lookups, Criminal Records Checks, Background Checks, Sex Offender Registry checks and more are reviewed and ranked. 

Don’t leave your children’s safety up to chance.  Join the investigative parenting movement and take charge of your child’s safety today!