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Background Checks unusual Temecula to Timbuktu

Oxford doctorate.
A longtime customer asked us to check an existing employee who has been promoted to young and transferred within the company. This employee was required to update its vital information on a form application. On the form, she said she had a doctorate in international human resources of the University of Oxford – Oxford THE UK. The employer said it was strange that she does not mention that when she asked for a $ 7 pm job ad sales two years earlier. The client asked us to check.

They faxed over the info and I took a look at the and in a few seconds, I knew that the complainant was lying. I called the customer and told them that I spare them the price of an international check, I know she's lying. "I said." How can you say? "They asked." Because she said she attended Lady Margaret Hall (College) at Oxford and Margaret she said wrong. Any holder of a doctorate from Oxford would not spell the college name wrong. Of course, we went through the motions and called Oxford and we found that LMH does not offer degrees in human resources. She should have chosen another college in Oxford to lie about.

The Pool Digger
A man whose company has ordered a local pool check to an employee he had hired and began digging swimming pools with a backhoe. At the time, our office been in Temecula, California, and the new employee has been digging swimming pools in Palm Springs, which is about two hours away. It took a few days to obtain the hand search of records in Utah where the employee had previously lived and to our surprise the employee was being sought to escape from the prison in a rural county in Utah. All this happened in 1995, before we were using the Internet. Everything was by telephone, fax and has been much slower.

I called the customer immediately with the great news. Now Normally, we provide information and it is the customer's responsibility to act accordingly. I completely understand what the customer has to do with this "dangerous" of employees. I asked an assistant to the mine if her husband, who was a Deputy Riverside County Sheriff could Driving in Palm Springs and stop. We found that this does not work that way. They have to serve a term of court in Utah which could take several days. I thought the member could obtain a credit "extra" or something to stop a bad guy wanted. I guess I watch too much television.

I then called the District Attorney's Office in rural Utah, but there had no response to my call. I then called the sheriff's office of the county in Utah and spoke to the sheriff. (Think Andy of Mayberry here.) I told him that I called the DA's office, but there was no answer. He told me they were all fishing. I asked if he knew the scoop pool and he said he did. I said, "Well pick it up. It is in Palm Springs. I'll get the address for you. "To which he replied:" We do not want. If it is in Palm Springs, he is not bothering anyone here. " You can not do that, "I said. "The hell I can not," he said. He then began to tell me they were a small county and that extradition would take a mountain of paperwork (which he was not inclined to do), then they would send someone to California to pick up the prisoner, his regret letter back ** in Utah, then the county would have to pay to keep him in prison for years. In fact, it County did a great favor and saving them a bundle of money by not doing so.

However, my client is in a state of panic. Remember it is before we were on the Internet. I had the directory assistance and find the county in Utah that the bond slave. I called and asked if they were in search of the excavator in the pool. They were. The bail bondsman in Utah has requested the address where the gravedigger pool was working and said: "We have some guys look for in 2 hours. "

I can not tell you how many times that the story above has been educational for me. He is the incarnation of the government against the private sector. Government moves very slowly at great expense with mountains of papers, while the private sector does the job better, faster, cheaper.

The murderer wanted
We did a criminal check for a client who has hired dozens of people a month. The client has operated a call center and we quickly learned that some telemarketers because of a disproportionate amount of criminal record in relation to the general population. Imagine that.

The case returned for a candidate that we were checking and low and behold, the person was wanted in the County of Los Angeles for murder. I called the client immediately to inform them. She said it was strange that I called at that time because he, the plaintiff waited in the hall to see her. She was really scared.

I called the police in his town and explained the situation and they told me to say client would take some time to process the warrant, it should drop him and let him go home, thinking it would begin work in a couple of days and they stop at home on weekends so as not to put anyone in danger in the client's office. Incidentally, Police had to ask the man to address they can go to stop.

Timbuktu
Let me say first I always wanted to do a background check to Timbuktu just so I can honestly say that we have checked all the peoples Temecula to Timbuktu. This happened a few weeks and prompted the writing of this article. A man emailed and asked if we could verify a person and his company in Timbuktu, Mali in West Africa.

If you're not familiar with Timbuktu it is a real place on the southwestern edge of the Sahara Desert and surely one of the most remote places on earth. Think French Foreign outpost of the Legion desert with camel caravans crossing. I read somewhere that it has recently boasted of 400 phones and Internet 2 lines. Wow

I told the client that, because we have never done anything in Mali that I should check and see what is available and how long should be, etc. I am one of the few experts in the United States on the international background checks. People contact me at any time how to get records from distant lands. When, myself, can not understand how to get the files somewhere call the embassy U.S. authorities in this country. We can usually understand things from there.

I can not say anything more specific on this matter, but I can that we were surprisingly able to get quality information quickly found another Internet scam involving West Africa gold dust and probably saved tens of thousands of customer dollars.

The handsome
A customer ordered a criminal and a verification credit for each new employee. We did a check on a new employee and a month later that the employee called me and told me she was the new director of human resources. She went on policies and procedures and wanted to ask me questions about background checks. She asked if a credit report was worth "and" What can you really tell from a credit report?

I said, 'Let me to talk about you. "I did this only by the memory of its report one month earlier. I said:" You are only about 31 years, you a college graduate, you are responsible for New England, you live in a rented condo, you drive a Toyota or Nissan modest price and you're beautiful. "She said," Wait a minute, how can you say that? I explained that most of it was educated guess my part, but I saw no spouse listed, I saw the student loans, an SS # that started with one, auto loans and numbers on his address said that she lived in a condo. "What is the best part? She asked:" There is no way you can say that a credit report. "I said that I noticed she had a credit card $ 1000 credit line to Victoria's Secret and I know that, in general, ugly women do not shop there, so you should be fine.

About the Author

Kit Fremin is the owner and founder of Background Check International. Since 1994 BCI has served clients as varied as: the LA Times, Department of Defense, Mars, Inc., the UN, the NTSB and Calvary Chapels nationwide. His website is: www.bcint.com and he can be e-mailed at kit@bcint.com.