How To Dig Up Dirt on Your Date
- April 9, 2009
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You don’t need a private investigator or mutual friends to do a background check on a date. Being your own sleuth is all about knowing where to look—and what you’re looking for.
You Will Need
- Some free time
- And patience
Step 1: Find out date's names
Find out all you can about your date’s name—get any former married names, maiden name, nicknames, and middle names.
Step 2: Google names
Conduct Google searches on all variations of your date’s name—first name with full middle and last name, first name with middle initial and last name, et cetera.
Run a search using last name first, first name last, in quotes.
Step 3: Google email & phone number
Run Google searches of the person’s email address and phone number.
Step 4: Check Google images
Check Google images for pictures of the person.
Step 5: Search social networking sites
See if your date has a page on MySpace, Facebook, or other social networking sites.
Make sure web pages you find refer to your date, not someone with the same name.
Step 6: Do background search
Do a background search by logging on to www.backgroundcheckgateway.com, which helps people conduct free investigations.
Step 7: Check dating sites
Check Match.com and other popular dating sites for profiles of the person.
If you know a lawyer, journalist, librarian, or other professional with access to LexisNexis, a powerful online database of published and legal documents, ask if they’ll do a little digging on your behalf.
Step 8: Check sex offender registries
Make sure your date is not a sexual predator by logging on to www.fbi.gov, which provides links to various states’ online sex offender registries.
Step 9: Go on a date
If you don’t find anything alarming, appalling, offensive, or illegal, go out on that date—and draw your own conclusions.
Nine percent of applicants to the online dating service True.com are rejected when the site’s routine background check discovers they are married and/or have a criminal record.
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