Saturday, February 28, 2009

Free Online Criminal Background Check - Why You Keep Getting Wrong Information

There are number of free on-line criminal background check websites available. It will not take you long to find them. The only problem with them is that many these free websites have outdated or downright wrong information on them.

That is bad enough. You might think so what, it is free. Let me take a chance, but it is even worse when you have criminals in the neighbourhood and these websites tell you there are not. This is what happened to me.

I was buying a house and was worried about the neighbours. So I went to a free background check site and they all came back clean. I was happy and we bought the house. As soon as we moved in we found out the house next door was full of people with criminal records who caused trouble all the time and we could not sell. We were stuck there for three years. All because I wanted to save a few dollars.

When we complained about the information we were told. "It is free, what do you expect. You get what you pay for". You could even be on one of these free websites and never even know about it. It was only when I went to a website where I only had to pay a measly few dollars that all their records came up. I could not believe I made the mistake of risking my home for the sake of a few dollars.

After doing some researching it turns out the reason that many free on-line criminal background check websites are free is because they are updated from many sources, including the public. This means that anyone can remove their names and can also add names of people they have a grudge against, who have never committed a criminal offence in their lives.

If your going to carry out a background check, look after your house and your family and your peace of mind and spend a few dollars on a paid criminal background check. I wish I did.

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