How do you find out if something is a scam?

Question

I signed up for gov-records. Then I requested from them information on someone listed on America's Most Wanted, giving them the name (not a common one) and the state they lived in. They wrote back that they had no criminal record on that person! I felt like the world's biggest fool for signing up.

Answer 1

These people finder services are based on articles which are available as public documents. This would include things like vehicle registration, license applications, state professional licenses, civil court documents such as divorces, bankruptcies and home transactions.

This person may have no license, or ot a license under another name in another state. They may not have had any transactions inthe civl courts.

So it may not be a scam...you could probably find yourself or a lost friend that lives a "normal" and routine life, but if this individual has spent most of their life as a criminal, there may be few such public documents to find them.

Answer 2

read the privacy policy