International Background Checks 101 by A. Hathaway
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A Rise in Demand With more people around the global accessing the Internet, and the global population itself exploding exponentially, the world is making a fast transition to online. Businesses around the world now make their hiring decisions based on candidates they find on the Internet. New websites for match making or online dating are popping up daily. These days, it's not uncommon to find a business partner or even find a spouse on the Internet. In this brave new world, come some sizeable risks.
Verifying the Story How does an individual in Paris verify a boyfriend's story who lives in Brazil? Or how does a small business in the United States verify a new supplier located in Singapore? And when looking for romance, just how do we know if he or she is really who he or she claims to be? These questions are becoming more common and so is the demand for background checks. The following section describes some of the services available to learn the truth.
Knowing your Options The services offered for background checks vary greatly. Some websites offer simple searches for public records, while others combine public records searches with actual investigation. We prefer the latter, as real investigation has real results in most cases. Among the top 3 players in the United States are Kroll, Owens Online and Wymoo International. Wymoo has been expanding its market share by concentrating on customer service and custom investigations. All 3 companys have a strong global presence, while Wymoo offers personalized service, surveillance, local investigators and complete narrative reporting. For the Philippines, contact Wymoo's affiliate, Philippine PI.
Pricing the Market An average background check can cost between $200 and $800, depending on the country of origin and the information needs of the customer. An average background investigation to verify a small business or foreign romance usually ranges between $400 and $600, again depending on the country and specific need for information. Always shop around for service quotes.
Filling the Need Is it really worth having your international romance, or foreign business partner verified? Absolutely. This is the age of identity theft, relationship scams, advance fee fraud, and these scams are on the rise. Think of a background check investigation as an insurance policy. One can cross his fingers and hope for the best. We recommend contracting a professional background check service, and sleeping well at night knowing the truth.
Best of luck,
A. Hathaway © 2006-2008 A. Hathaway
About the Author
A. Hathaway has 20+ years of experience in fraud prevention, foreign markets, international investigations and background checks. His ongoing travel experience consists of over 35 countries and 6 continents. He has worked as a consultant for major investigative firms including Wymoo International and maintains his own blog.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Free Public Records Search – Made Easy by the Internet
Free Public Records Search – Made Easy by the Internet
13th April 2008
Author: Davion Wong
If you want to find out the background of a certain individual, you can do a free public records search online. Public records are basically information that is filed by the government (i.e. legal records, criminal records, driving records and so on) or by the individual (i.e. voter registration, magazine subscription and more). Most of the public records are accessible to the public for free or for a certain administrative fee. Whether you will be charged a certain fee or not will depend on the type of records you want to pull up. The viewing of public records is controlled by federal, state, as well as local regulations. If you want to do a free public records search, either you will have to be content with free basic information or you can log on to the internet. The Internet has brought on the possibility of receiving a wide variety of information without leaving your home, public records are included. Though there might be some public records that cannot reach your home through the internet, you still get a substantial amount of information needed to find out about a certain person. When making use of a paid public records search services online, make sure you get your money’s worth. There are a few advantages that you can get from paid search services unlike free services. However, if you can make do without the advantages then it is better you pick a search service offered for free. If, on the other hand, you are using a paid service make sure you get fast service, excellent customer support, and a comprehensive database. Though you have a choice of paying for public records or not paying, you have to keep in mind that it is possible to have free public records search. Public records are as a matter of fact offered free in your local courthouse or vital statistics department. If you can’t get the needed information for free on the internet, you may have to spend some of your energy and go to these departments.There are certain limitations to free public records search especially when it comes to criminal records. State criminal records are hard to obtain because they are usually kept in state depositories. Some of the criminal records shown may be tampered on purpose to protect the witnesses and victims involved. You can go to my website for tips on where to get the best free public records search online. The next time you want to get to know a person, you will know where to look in the internet.Davion does a fair bit of investigative work. Instantly search US public records at his popular records search blog. Also, read another of his popular article on fast facts about public criminal records.
This article is free for republishingSource: http://www.articlealley.com/article_516676_81.html
13th April 2008
Author: Davion Wong
If you want to find out the background of a certain individual, you can do a free public records search online. Public records are basically information that is filed by the government (i.e. legal records, criminal records, driving records and so on) or by the individual (i.e. voter registration, magazine subscription and more). Most of the public records are accessible to the public for free or for a certain administrative fee. Whether you will be charged a certain fee or not will depend on the type of records you want to pull up. The viewing of public records is controlled by federal, state, as well as local regulations. If you want to do a free public records search, either you will have to be content with free basic information or you can log on to the internet. The Internet has brought on the possibility of receiving a wide variety of information without leaving your home, public records are included. Though there might be some public records that cannot reach your home through the internet, you still get a substantial amount of information needed to find out about a certain person. When making use of a paid public records search services online, make sure you get your money’s worth. There are a few advantages that you can get from paid search services unlike free services. However, if you can make do without the advantages then it is better you pick a search service offered for free. If, on the other hand, you are using a paid service make sure you get fast service, excellent customer support, and a comprehensive database. Though you have a choice of paying for public records or not paying, you have to keep in mind that it is possible to have free public records search. Public records are as a matter of fact offered free in your local courthouse or vital statistics department. If you can’t get the needed information for free on the internet, you may have to spend some of your energy and go to these departments.There are certain limitations to free public records search especially when it comes to criminal records. State criminal records are hard to obtain because they are usually kept in state depositories. Some of the criminal records shown may be tampered on purpose to protect the witnesses and victims involved. You can go to my website for tips on where to get the best free public records search online. The next time you want to get to know a person, you will know where to look in the internet.Davion does a fair bit of investigative work. Instantly search US public records at his popular records search blog. Also, read another of his popular article on fast facts about public criminal records.
This article is free for republishingSource: http://www.articlealley.com/article_516676_81.html
Friday, May 2, 2008
Accessible Data with Spherical Indexing; Supports Open Archive for Local, State and Federal Governments by Joshua Konkle
Accessible Data with Spherical Indexing; Supports Open Archive for Local, State and Federal Governments by Joshua Konkle
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Government, specifically the US Federal, State and Local Government is challenged with a requirement to preserve information for the duration of the Republic (more information on electronic archiving and discovery is at www.estorian.com). The duration of the Republic already spans hundreds of years. The first 175 years stored the Republics business on paper. However, since the 1950's new types of storage media have emerged. That media maintains the historical audio, video and text of the Republic. It is incumbent upon the US Government to make that history available, as needed, to the constituents of the United States of America.
Accessing the history of any department within a branch of government can seem trying at times. For example, the technology used by the Office of the President required end users to decide which emails were necessary for long term preservation, as opposed to storing all of the data, regardless of personal interpretation. Therefore, accessing the unabridged version of the email records for the Republics highest office was hampered by user precision and recall, not technology. Where precision represents the number of correct hits in a return set of specified length; recall represents the number of correct returns relative to the total number of possible correct returns. Specifically, deciding which emails should and shouldn't be kept for long term retention is best left up to software and open records managers.
In order for a manager who is responding to a Federal Open Information Act (FOIA) request to find data, the data must be stored in an open format. Open formats are critical for all agencies within the Government, because they never know when data may be requested. If the data is proprietary and the request is 50 years from now, it's possible the developer or the data-type is long retired or deceased. Therefore, accessing the data may become impossible, unless a computer with the right software is under maintenance at The Smithsonian.
If you are using Estorian LookingGlass you can be assured that your data is accessible. Data accessibility is maintained by LookingGlass Spherical Indexing solution, which is based on open format SQL queries. LookingGlass takes a standard approach to storing the data within an open storage system, such as NetApp NAS or Permabit Enterprise Archiving. The standard data approach, used by most of the vendors supporting an archive, is to take the Microsoft MSG files and store them in collections of ZIP files.
The Microsoft MSG files are the Message file data-type created by Microsoft Outlook. Granted, the data-type may have been created by Microsoft, but it has been in use for over 13 years. Specifically, Microsoft MSG files were introduced when Microsoft released Windows 95 Preview Program (April 1995). Since then, thousands of developers have been manipulating and managing MSG files, it is well known and can be considered a de facto standard. Individual MSG files are a suitable format for email and email meta-data, but billions of immutable MSG files create a performance and storage challenge for all systems.
To address the issue of backing up millions of individual MSG files, LookingGlass incorporates standard zip file support in to the storing of its archived email. The ZIP file format, made popular by Phil Katz (d. 2000) was released into the open format in 1989. Despite Mr. Katz death, the open format creates assurances the data type will continue to be supported within LookingGlass well in to the future.
LookingGlass data storage access is predicated on open access and data ownership by its customers. As citizens of the Republic, we should pledge allegiance to open formats that ensure future generations' access to the present history that defines their conditions. LookingGlass provides assurances to that access through the confluence of Spherical Indexing, MSG file's and ZIP technology. LookingGlass will provide our Federal, State and Local Governments the open access they need to support the open records acts well into the future.
About the Author
Joshua Konkle is Vice President at DCIG Inc., an independent storage analyst and consulting firm. Mr. Konkle has been a business advisor for Estorian since September 2006.
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Government, specifically the US Federal, State and Local Government is challenged with a requirement to preserve information for the duration of the Republic (more information on electronic archiving and discovery is at www.estorian.com). The duration of the Republic already spans hundreds of years. The first 175 years stored the Republics business on paper. However, since the 1950's new types of storage media have emerged. That media maintains the historical audio, video and text of the Republic. It is incumbent upon the US Government to make that history available, as needed, to the constituents of the United States of America.
Accessing the history of any department within a branch of government can seem trying at times. For example, the technology used by the Office of the President required end users to decide which emails were necessary for long term preservation, as opposed to storing all of the data, regardless of personal interpretation. Therefore, accessing the unabridged version of the email records for the Republics highest office was hampered by user precision and recall, not technology. Where precision represents the number of correct hits in a return set of specified length; recall represents the number of correct returns relative to the total number of possible correct returns. Specifically, deciding which emails should and shouldn't be kept for long term retention is best left up to software and open records managers.
In order for a manager who is responding to a Federal Open Information Act (FOIA) request to find data, the data must be stored in an open format. Open formats are critical for all agencies within the Government, because they never know when data may be requested. If the data is proprietary and the request is 50 years from now, it's possible the developer or the data-type is long retired or deceased. Therefore, accessing the data may become impossible, unless a computer with the right software is under maintenance at The Smithsonian.
If you are using Estorian LookingGlass you can be assured that your data is accessible. Data accessibility is maintained by LookingGlass Spherical Indexing solution, which is based on open format SQL queries. LookingGlass takes a standard approach to storing the data within an open storage system, such as NetApp NAS or Permabit Enterprise Archiving. The standard data approach, used by most of the vendors supporting an archive, is to take the Microsoft MSG files and store them in collections of ZIP files.
The Microsoft MSG files are the Message file data-type created by Microsoft Outlook. Granted, the data-type may have been created by Microsoft, but it has been in use for over 13 years. Specifically, Microsoft MSG files were introduced when Microsoft released Windows 95 Preview Program (April 1995). Since then, thousands of developers have been manipulating and managing MSG files, it is well known and can be considered a de facto standard. Individual MSG files are a suitable format for email and email meta-data, but billions of immutable MSG files create a performance and storage challenge for all systems.
To address the issue of backing up millions of individual MSG files, LookingGlass incorporates standard zip file support in to the storing of its archived email. The ZIP file format, made popular by Phil Katz (d. 2000) was released into the open format in 1989. Despite Mr. Katz death, the open format creates assurances the data type will continue to be supported within LookingGlass well in to the future.
LookingGlass data storage access is predicated on open access and data ownership by its customers. As citizens of the Republic, we should pledge allegiance to open formats that ensure future generations' access to the present history that defines their conditions. LookingGlass provides assurances to that access through the confluence of Spherical Indexing, MSG file's and ZIP technology. LookingGlass will provide our Federal, State and Local Governments the open access they need to support the open records acts well into the future.
About the Author
Joshua Konkle is Vice President at DCIG Inc., an independent storage analyst and consulting firm. Mr. Konkle has been a business advisor for Estorian since September 2006.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Government Records
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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