anyone ever used one of the pay to look up a person website?

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Torn Mind

Lifer
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instantcheckmate was pretty good for me. It found an adverse party's facebook profile for me, along with others.

There is an opt-out option on those sites. The privacy wary can make a request and "disappear".

Whitepages is okay if you're looking for homeowners, sometimes reverse phone, but reverse phone might only reveal a previous owner.
 

QueBert

Lifer
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EVERY one of those bull$hit sites with the "progress bar" is the same crappy rip-off company.

but it took like 10 minutes, and then another 45 before I got the email. It was doing a ton of computing.


instantcheckmate was pretty good for me. It found an adverse party's facebook profile for me, along with others.

There is an opt-out option on those sites. The privacy wary can make a request and "disappear".

Whitepages is okay if you're looking for homeowners, sometimes reverse phone, but reverse phone might only reveal a previous owner.

Now I'm not saying you're not correct about that site being good. But that shit had a progress bar when it was just opening the page.
 

esquared

Forum Director & Omnipotent Overlord
Forum Director
Oct 8, 2000
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found them on classmates, I had looked last year but apparently I did something wrong. Or they recently signed up. Sucks that both parties have to be paying members to read emails. Worst case she never logs on and isn't a paying member anyways. Best case she'll see it and is a member and replies.

Thanks for

I was removing a spammer and saw your post.

Not true. I had an old friend leave me a classmate type email in my account and I've never paid.
I was able reply back and forth with her.
That was 10 years back so I don't know if anything changed. Join for the minimal amount and send her a email message.
 

Oyeve

Lifer
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Years ago (20 years maybe?) when I was a manager for a worldwide network group, we had to hire a bunch of network engineers all over the US. We had some software that we could use to do background checks and such. I don't know if its ethical today, but we could input any name and minimal info and get full info. Man, I spent hours on that looking up old school friends.